marketing expert of a select healthcare system.

In this unit, you will become the marketing expert of a select healthcare system. By the end of this unit, you will be able to proficiently elaborate how healthcare marketing principles and theories can maximize effectiveness of a specific healthcare system.

To begin, select one of the following healthcare systems that you would like to explore for this unit:

• Acute care
• Ambulatory care
• Assisted living
• Continuing care retirement community
• Critical access hospital
• Dialysis care
• Home health care
• Hospice care
• Long-term care
• Memory care
• Palliative care
• Pediatric care
• Primary care
• Short-term care (e.g., post-surgery therapy)
• Surgical care
• Veterans Administration
• Other (requires approval from instructor)

The healthcare system that you selected will be the foundation for your Unit 2 Assignment.

• Discuss how your selected healthcare system can legally market their services and products (e.g., federal requirements, state mandates, etc.)
• Defend three (3) marketing principles and/or theories that you believe are most promising for your healthcare system
• Research a real-life healthcare system that matches the system you selected and synthesize the success of its marketing efforts
• Report your findings by using one (1) of the methods below:
• • 4-5 page fact sheet for the general community.
  • Letter to the CEO of your selected healthcare system.
  • Power Point presentation for a Board of Directors (10-12 slides; speaker notes as needed to support assertions).
• The use of first person is permitted for this assignment. APA formatting (e.g., title page, conclusion, reference page, etc.) should not be used.
• Although the use of APA formatting is not required for this assignment, proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation are expected.

*Hint: Try locating a healthcare system that you are familiar with, would like to network with, have heard concerns about, or one that is completely unfamiliar to you.