You live in a state with a certificate of need program. The CON program attempts to balance the growth of health care facilities and services with need. Need is determined from many perspectives, based on multiple and conflicting objectives. Assume that there are three stakeholders in the CON planning process: the state regulatory agency that issues the CON, a group of oncologists who wish to invest in a freestanding cancer treatment center, and the CEO and board of directors of a very competitive acute care hospital that wishes to deliver cancer treatment using a new machine that has not yet been purchased. The regulatory agency can issue only one CON for cancer treatment this fiscal year: to either the oncology group or the acute care hospital.

a. Identify the types of data you would require to determine need from each stakeholder perspective.

b. Discuss the information and insight each stakeholder would receive from each type of data.

c. Rank the importance of each type of data from each stakeholder perspective.

d. Select the perspective of either the oncology group or the acute care hospital. Write a two- to three-page report that will be submitted to the regulatory agency in support of the application of the stakeholder