growing in scale and scope is to develop new kinds of local, rural, and national partnerships in order to expand services for patients. These partnerships would allow for innovation in seeking new solutions and would provide opportunity to invest in and develop major service lines to meet community needs. An example of this is the formulation of several specialty practices under the hospital system umbrella and the addition of clinics inside of local shopping centers, often staffed with a medical assistant and a advanced practice nurse, that can be utilized as primary care offices and also treat minor ailments such as upper respiratory or urinary tract infections. This alleviates burden on the emergency department for the hospital and provides a lower cost option for treatment. A2: Leadership Practices The leader analyzed is the CEO of this healthcare organization who demonstrates a transformational leadership style with practices that include inspiring a shared vision through idealized influence, enabling others to act through intellectual stimulation, and enhancing team spirit through inspirational motivation. This style of leadership often inspires trust, admiration, loyalty, and respect toward the leader, and motivates employees to do more than what was originally expected of them (Yukl, 2). The CEO’s leadership practices stimulate the employees and influences their beliefs, assumptions, and behaviors by appealing to the importance of collective and organizational outcomes. A transformational leader provides individualized consideration, intellectual stimulation, idealized influence, and inspirational motivation (Yukl, 3). The CEO leads by inspiring a shared vision through the sharing of ideas for the future with the organizations leadership. This is accomplished through idealized influence in which the leader is a strong role model for the leadership team (Manss). By doing this, he is enlisting others in a common vision by appealing to shared aspirations. This style of leadership makes the employees more aware of the importance of task outcomes and induces them to transcend their own self interest for the sake of the organization (Yukl, 2). This practice stimulates and inspires the employees to strive to achieve the desired outcomes and, in the process, develop their own leadership capacity. Unit leaders are encouraged to conduct a needs assessment and literature review to determine the evidence based best practices in the areas of employee retention and clinical documentation. The desired outcome of this practice is to bring the people within the organization together to foster a commitment to a shared future they seek to create. Focus on the mission with branding, both internally and externally, of the central message has been stressed with the creation of the position of Vice President of Advocacy and Community Partnership. A local news personality was hired for this position in an effort to capitalize on her existing relationships and the trust of the community. The goal of th>