Quality is high at excellent healthcare organizations. Employees love where they work. Patients consistently check the top box in satisfaction surveys. Profits are increasing--even as costs are going down. Sound impossible? It's not. Reaching Excellence in Healthcare Management is a handy guide for healthcare managers, nurse leaders, physician executives, and department heads. --From cover.

Suite of Online Learning Resources: Increase student engagement and enhance your teaching with resources that integrate easily into many institutions' learning management system. Student study and practice materials include "auto-feedback" multiple-choice questions and questions for discussion that reflect realistic situations that managers are likely to encounter in healthcare organizations. Instructor materials include analyses of the multiple-choice questions, key talking points for the questions for discussion, gradable review questions with accompanying rubrics, and PowerPoint slides of the book's exhibits. The Well-Managed Healthcare Organization is the most comprehensive text on healthcare management. Drawing on the experiences of high-performing and Baldrige Award-winning organizations, it details how to manage a healthcare organization using evidence, best practices, benchmarks, and a culture of continuous improvement. This popular resource has prepared thousands of healthcare management, nursing, medical, allied health, and health information management students to effectively lead in healthcare organizations (HCOs). This edition describes how HCOs are responding to the Affordable Care Act by increasing their role in population health management and expanding their focus from acute to comprehensive care. In particular, this edition discusses: Creating accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes Shifting from a volume to a value focus Creating a culture of high reliability to improve outcome measures Designing the electronic health record to meet meaningful use standards and incorporate big data Building cooperative teams through workforce planning and inclusion

The Handbook of Healthcare Management is a comprehensive examination of key management practices for global healthcare organizations, arguing that insight into and implementation of these practices is essential for success and sustainability.

Following are some of the unique features of this book: a)Detailed study of healthcare systems around the world that would help readers to draw comparisons between them. b)Thoroughly analyzed strategic frameworks that would assist readers to understand the working of Indian hospital sector, Pharmaceutical sector and Medical device and diagnostics sector. c)Comprehensive study of technological advancements in healthcare.

A comprehensive, research-based introduction to healthcare management, covering healthcare systems, services, organisations and management.

Success isn t something you are born with it is carefully cultivated and mastered. And a job, when it works well, can fit like a glove and provide you with immense personal and professional satisfaction. This book s 50 succinct lessons will guide you as you begin your career in healthcare management and help you achieve success and professional fulfillment whatever your role. Each of the 50 lessons outlines traits, behaviors, and skills needed to maximize strengths, master career success, and achieve the perfect job fit. White and Lindsey, in various academic and healthcare management roles, have provided career counseling for hundreds of students and early careerists. This book compiles their advice and the lessons they ve learned from those interactions. Each lesson concludes with helpful exercises that will prompt self-reflection and recommended resources for additional information.

Foundations of Health Care Management Leaders and managers throughout the health care system are facing ever more challenging changes in the way care is delivered, paid for, and evaluated. Foundations of Health Care Management: Principles and Methods offers an innovative, concise, reader-friendly introduction to health care management and administration. It addresses the need for new skills in managers of health care facilities and for those planning to enter health care management positions. The book covers such critical topics as leadership training, change management, conflict management techniques, culture building, quality improvement, and communications skills, as well as collaboration in the improvement of population health. Foundations of Health Care Management also concentrates on innovations and describes steps in the transition to more decentralized and creative approaches to the management of health care facilities. The book covers physician management from the physician's viewpoint, a valuable perspective for health care managers. The book serves important dual purposes for faculty and students by providing both insights into the health care field as well as foundational content on essential management and leadership competencies. A full set of support materials is available for instructors at the book's companion Web site.