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Introduction to Health Care Management

Author(s): Sharon B. Buchbinder, RN, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Health Science, Towson University
Nancy Shanks, PhD, Chair, Department of Health Professions, Professor and Coordinator, Health Care Management Program, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Details:
  • ISBN-13: 9780763734732
  • ISBN-10:076373473X
  • Paperback    470 pages      © 2007
Price: Find Your Sales Rep International Sales $82.95 US List
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Overview

Introduction to Health Care Management is a concise, reader-friendly, introductory healthcare management book 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.

 

 

Features:

 

  • Chapters contributed by real experts using an active voice to grab the reader’s attention.
  • Learning objectives and discussion questions in each chapter.
  • Instructors’ resources online for each chapter, including PowerPoints, Test Bank, and Sample Syllabus.
  • 15 case studies in a wide variety of settings, in an assortment of healthcare management topics.
  • A case study guide, with rubrics for evaluation of student performance, enabling instructors at every level of experience to hit the ground running on that first day of class.

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Chapter  1  Leadership
Chapter  2  Management and Motivation
Chapter  3  Organizational Behavior and Management Thinking
Chapter  4  Strategic Planning
Chapter  5  Performance Improvement in Health Care: The Quest to Achieve Quality
Chapter  6  Information Technology
Chapter  7  Financing Health Care and Health Insurance
Chapter  8  Managing Costs and Revenues
Chapter  9  Managing Healthcare Professionals
Chapter  10  The Strategic Management of Human Resources
Chapter  11  Teamwork
Chapter  12  Cultural Competency and Diversity
Chapter  13  Ethics and Law
Chapter  14  Fraud and Abuse
Chapter  15  Healthcare Management Guidelines and Case Studies
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Sharon B. Buchbinder, RN, PhD-Professor and Chair, Department of Health Science, Towson University

Sharon B. Buchbinder, RN, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Science at Towson University. Over the past three decades, Dr. Buchbinder has worked in many aspects of healthcare as a clinician, researcher, association executive, and academic. With a PhD in Public Health from the University of Illinois School of Public Health, she brings this blend of real world experience and theoretical constructs to undergraduate and graduate face to face and online classrooms, where she is constantly reminded of how important good teaching really is. She also conducts health care management research and provides relevant and effective service to her department, college, university, and discipline, and is Immediate Past Chair of the Board of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA). 

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Nancy Shanks, PhD-Chair, Department of Health Professions, Professor and Coordinator, Health Care Management Program, Metropolitan State College of Denver

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  • “Drs. Buchbinder and Shanks have done a masterful job in selecting topics and authors and putting them together in a meaningful and coherent manner. Each chapter of the book is designed to give the student the core content that must become part of the repertoire of each and every healthcare manager, whether entry level or senior executive. Each of the chapters and accompanying cases serve to bring to life what it means to be a truly competent healthcare manager.”

    —Leonard H. Friedman, PhD, MPA, MPH, Professor, Dept of Health Services Management and Leadership, and Director of the Master of Health Services Administration program, George Washington University, School of Public Health and Health Services
     

  • “I am very happy with Health Care Management and will be adopting it for a new course that I will be teaching. This is probably the best management text I have seen so far. I was thrilled to receive it.”

    —Sally K. Fauchald, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor of Nursing, The College of St. Scholastica

     

  • “A solid text that covers a wide range of management topics.”

    —Michael H. Sullivan, Director HCA Program, Methodist University, Fayetteville, North Carolina
     

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