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Legal Essentials of Health Care Administration

Author(s): George D. Pozgar, MBA, CHE
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763761301
  • Paperback    365 pages      © 2009
Price: International Sales $118.95 US List
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Legal Essentials in Health Care Administration is a distillation of the most important topics from the widely popular Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration by the same author. 

Using reader-friendly, jargon-free language, this text unravels the complexities of the legal system in health care and provides the reader with a strong foundation in health law. Readers will gain a solid understanding of what steps providers of care, legislative bodies, patients, patients’ families, and patient advocates can take to help prevent the wide variety of harmful events that are involved in health care. 

This book is a sound reference for anyone who wishes to become more informed about how the law, ethics, and health care intersect.  

Features:

  • Actual court cases, state and federal statutes, and common-law principles are examined.
  • A historical perspective on the development of hospitals, illustrating both their progress and failures through the centuries.
  • A broad discussion of the legal system, including the sources of law and government organization.
  • A basic review of tort law, criminal issues, contracts, civil procedure and trial practice, and a wide range of real-life legal and ethical dilemmas that caregivers have faced as they wound their way through the courts.
  • An overview of various ways to improve the quality and delivery of health care.

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Acknowledgments

Preface

Chapter 1    Historical Perspective
Chapter 2    Introduction to Law
Chapter 3    Tort Law
Chapter 4    Criminal Aspects of Health Care
Chapter 5    Contracts and Antitrust 
Chapter 6    Civil Procedure and Trial Practice 
Chapter 7    Corporate Structure and Liability    
Chapter 8    Medical Staff
Chapter 9    Nursing and the Law      
Chapter 10   Liability by Departments and Health Care Professionals 
Chapter 11   Information Management and Health Care Records 
Chapter 12   Patient Consent    
Chapter 13   Legal Reporting Requirements 
Chapter 14   Issues of Procreation 
Chapter 15   Patient Rights and Responsibilities 
Chapter 16   Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 
Chapter 17   Health Care Ethics 
Chapter 18   Professional Liability Insurance 
Chapter 19   Labor Relations 
Chapter 20   Employment, Discipline, and Discharge 
Chapter 21   Managed Care and Organizational Restructuring 
Chapter 22   Tort Reform Risk Reduction 
Chapter 23   Patient Safety and Zero Tolerance 
Chapter 24   Worldwide Search 
Chapter 25   Journey to Excellence  

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Index 


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George D. Pozgar, MBA, CHE

George Pozgar received his Bachelor of Arts from the United College of Gordon and Barrington in Wenham, MA, and his Master of Business Administration in Health Care Administration from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.   Mr. Pozgar is presently a surveyor for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations and has surveyed more than 700 hospitals across the nation. He served as Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Episcopal Health Services in Hempstead, New York; Administrator at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Smithtown, New York; Assistant Administrator at Huntington Hospital in Huntington, New York; Administrative Resident at Baptist Memorial Medical Center in Jacksonville, Florida; Administrative Clerk at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C.; and Research Assistant for Booz, Allen and Hamilton Management Consultants in Washington, D.C.

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  • “The paperback is less expensive and it contains all essentials for exposing students to law as it relates to health care in the U.S.A.”

    —Thomas P. McCabe, JD, MBA, Dept. of Health Care Administration, California State University, Long Beach
     

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      Pozgar's "Legal Essentials of Health Care Administration" with Morrison's "Health Care Ethics: Critical Issues for the 21st Century, Second Edition"

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