Foundations of Health Care Management: Principles and Methods

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.

Keywords: Public Health Services & Policy, Changing Health Care Infrastructure, Productivity in the use of health care resources, efficiency of health care services delivery, eliminating waste in health care delivery, health care management fundamentals, Governance and Management of the Health Care Organization, creating a health care culture of excellence, managing human performance in health care, leadership and health care, communications in a health care environment, how to design motivating jobs in health care delivery, health care teams, developing high performance health care teams, Human Resources Management and the healthcare workforce, Health care job trends, health care  , recruitment methods, The Pursuit of Quality Care in health care, Health Care Marketing, The Role Of Marketing In Health Care Organizations, Financial Management in health care, Health care Ethics and  , the Law,