Introduction to Health Care Management, Fourth Edition is a concise, reader-friendly, introductory healthcare management text that covers a wide variety of healthcare settings, from hospitals to nursing homes and clinics. Filled with examples to engage the reader's imagination, the important issues in healthcare management, such as ethics, cost management, strategic planning and marketing, information technology, and human resources, are all thoroughly covered. Guidelines and rubrics along with numerous case studies make this text both student-friendly and teacher-friendly. It is the perfect resource for students of healthcare management, nursing, allied health, business administration, pharmacy, occupational therapy, public administration, and public health.
"The new Second Edition of Cases in Health Care Management is a collection of over 100 new and cutting-edge case studies designed to help illustrate the challenges related to managing the health care services.
In 1933 , Dr. Sidney R. Garfield established a prepaid plan for construction workers in the Mojave Desert in Southern California . The industrialist Henry Kaiser then employed Dr. Garfield to create a prepaid group practice plan for ...
Career Opportunities in Healthcare Management is a concise, reader-friendly, introductory healthcare management book that covers a wide variety of career opportunities in a broad range of direct healthcare settings--such as hospitals, ...
Thoroughly revised with updated references, examples, case studies, activities, and supplementary resources, this edition includes new content on: strategies for managing quality in population health care, application of the Institute for ...
This book emphasizes developing critical thinking skills through a five-step problem solving model that teaches how to assess a situation, consider alternatives, choose an appropriate alternative, evaluate the results, and revise as needed.
Thoroughly revised, this third edition of Financial Management of Health Care Organizations ofÂfers an introduction to the most-used tools and techniques of health care financial management.
This book provides an overview of this complex field, with insightful discussion and expert practical guidance. Health care today is worlds away from any other point in history.
This book not only helps students develop the necessary data analysis skills, but it also boosts familiarity with important software that employers will be looking for.
Written by authors with decades of experience teaching and working in health care administration and management, the book examines the current state and changing face of health care delivery in the United States.
With a focus on basic accounting in health care management, this essential book contains the vocabulary of and an introduction to the tools and concepts employed by finance officers.