Explain how the organization’s mission and vision are affected by the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats identified.

SWOT Analysis
For this assignment, you will choose one of the organizations below or a nonprofit hospital in your community to research and complete the SWOT Analysis Download SWOT Analysis template. You are free to select a different organization. Please note, you are required to use the same organization for the final paper in Week 5:
· CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Health System
· Cleveland Clinic
· Henry Ford Health System
· Lutheran Services in America
· Mayo Clinic
· Medtronic
· Shriners Hospitals for Children
· Jude Children’s Research Hospital
· Stanford Medical Center
· Trinity Health
· UC Davis Medical Center
· University hospital or other nonprofit hospital in your community
· University of Texas Health (UT Health)
· Veteran’s Health Administration (VHA)
· Identify the organization and include the URL for their website.
· Create a SWOT analysis for the chosen organization.
Strengths
· Identify three strengths of the organization (e.g., competitive advantage, high- quality care, access to care, affordability, accreditation).
· Explain your rationale for each choice.
· Describe how the stated strengths can be built on to ensure longevity of the organization.
Weaknesses
· Identify three weaknesses of the organization (e.g., lack of defined purpose [who they are serving], low-quality care, poor customer service and customer ratings, lack of accreditation [the Joint Commission]).
· Explain your rationale for each choice.
· Provide an example of the stated weaknesses and potential issues that can happen.
Opportunities
· Identify three opportunities of the organization (Tip: Review the textbook for examples of opportunities for the organization.).
· Explain your rationale for each choice.
· Discuss how the opportunities identified could be leveraged to the organization’s advantage.
Threats
· Identify three threats to the organization (Tip: Review the textbook for examples of threats to an organization.).
· Explain your rationale for each choice.
· Discuss one option for reducing each threat identified.
· Summarize the details from the SWOT analysis in a SWOT box.

Based on the outcomes of your SWOT analysis,
· Explain how the organization’s mission and vision are affected by the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats identified.
· Describe how the identified strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats affect the organization’s values and culture.
· Discuss how the organization may be impacted should the internal weaknesses significantly increase.
· Examine the impact external threats (e.g., public entities [state or federal regulatory bodies] or competition) may have on the organization’s market share.
The SWOT Analysis paper
· Must be a minimum of four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style
· Must use the SWOT Analysis Download SWOT Analysis template.
· Must include a separate title page with the following:
o Title of paper in bold font
§ Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
o Student’s name
o Name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
o Course name and number
o Instructor’s name
o Due date
· Must utilize academic voice.
· Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
· Must use at least three credible sources in addition to the course text.
· Must document any information used from sources in APA Style
· Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style

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