1. Assume you are an HR manager in a large hospital facing a shortage of nurses. What measures might you take to address the shortfall?

2. How will the aging of the population affect both the supply of health professionals and the demand for healthcare services?

3. The healthcare system at which you work is considering implementing a medical home model within the primary care practices that it owns. How could you use scenarios to model the effect that the implementation of medical homes will have on each of the following?

a. The demand for healthcare services among patients who visit the healthcare system’s primary care practices

b. The system’s healthcare workforce— in terms of both the number of workers and the types of workers— needed to support the medical home model in the primary care practices