This assignment asks you to consider the implementation and tailoring of a healthcare
compliance program in the specific setting of a group of Christian healthcare professionals.
There are numerous issues of concern to Christian healthcare professionals including: end-of-life
and physician-assisted suicide issues, abortion issues, transgender and related issues, etc.
Christian healthcare compliance professionals should be able to address and help others address
these important issues.
INSTRUCTIONS
After your meeting with the Peaks of Otter Family Medicine, Inc., a Virginia corporation
(“Peaks” or the “Corporation”), Board of Directors referenced in Memorandum: Health Care
Compliance Program Assignment, the Board unanimously voted to adopt a healthcare
compliance program for the practice. The Board also voted to hire you as a consultant to help the
Corporation implement the compliance program. The Office Manager, Sally Johnson, who also
serves as the Treasurer and COO for the Corporation, will be the point person for this project and
is your main point of contact.
Sally and some of the Board members have questions about the implementation of and tailoring
of a compliance program for Peaks. Therefore, Sally has asked you to draft a memorandum to
her and the Board that will answer these questions. Specifically, the memorandum should
address the following:
What steps will need to be taken to implement and tailor a good compliance program for the
Corporation?
What challenges or obstacles are likely to be faced in implementing and tailoring a good
compliance program for the Corporation?
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Costs are obviously a concern for any business. What costs should the Corporation expect to
face? Must a full-time compliance person be hired or can Sally handle it on the inside with
your help as an outside consultant when needed?
Are there other issues that they should be thinking about as they embark on this process?
Remember, Sally and all of the physicians are evangelical Christians, and their faith is very
important to them. They feel that they live it out in their practice. How would their faith
impact Peaks’ implementation and tailoring of its healthcare compliance program?
Prepare your memorandum using the memorandum assignment template provided. Your
memorandum should be in good Bluebook format, contain 1-inch margins, use 12-point Ariel or
Times New Roman font, be double-spaced (with footnotes, if used, in a smaller font, singlespaced, and indented), and follow the formatting of the memorandum assignment template
provided.
You do not need a cover page or a bibliography, reference list, etc. Your memorandum must be
at least 1,750 words in length and cite as well as utilize a minimum of 5 scholarly, academic or
legal sources. Scholarly, academic or legal sources provided in the course materials should be
preferred to the extent that they are relevant to the assignment. Please note, this is not requiring a
minimum of 5 citations but rather 5 sources. You should have numerous citations throughout
your memo