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Instructor Resources: Test bank, PowerPoint slides, a PDF of the book’s exhibits, an instructor manual and additional exam questions for each chapter, and a transition guide to the new edition. 

 

Health Policy Issues: An Economic Perspective uses concise, topical chapters to provide a comprehensive overview of the forces influencing healthcare financing and delivery. Prescription drug coverage, concerns over health equity, and the rise in healthcare costs are just a few of the timely and vital issues that are discussed through the lens of economics. Each chapter includes a clear explanation of the topic, diagrams and charts to aid comprehension, and a summary and discussion questions at the end.

This eighth edition has been revised to reflect the most recent research and data, as well as changes in laws and government policies. A new chapter compares the US health system to those of five European countries. Features of all six systems are correlated to their countries’ medical performance. The tradeoffs that governments and individuals make when spending on healthcare are also discussed.

 

New and updated content includes coverage of:

• Current Medicare proposals
• COVID’s effect on medical services delivery
• Medicaid effectiveness
• Strategies for addressing the physician shortage
• Affordable Care Act updates 

This book is an ideal text for health policy courses in nursing, medicine, health administration, and public-health programs. It covers a much broader range of topics than other titles and allows instructors the flexibility to choose which specific subjects to cover within a course. The text is written from a market economist’s perspective, and no prior knowledge of economics is required.

 

Health Policy Issues shows how the economic approach to healthcare policy is important not only for understanding the structural and dynamic forces pressing for change in healthcare but also for explaining why the health system has evolved to its current state.

Instructor Resources: PowerPoint slides, important chapter concepts, discussion questions with answers, additional readings, and a transition guide to the new edition.

Instructor Resources: Test bank, PowerPoint slides, suggested answers to discussion questions, and a transition guide to the new edition.

To become a successful healthcare manager, students need to understand management theories and methods and know how to apply them to real-world problems. Management of Healthcare Organizations: An Introduction teaches this in an engaging way. The authors provide aspiring managers with theoretical background, practical methods, and hands-on exercises to prepare for careers in healthcare management, emphasizing the multifaceted nature of management problems and the need to combine a variety of approaches to solve them.

This straightforward text includes bulleted lists, examples, activities, exhibits, and exercises to boost readability, retention, and engagement. Chapters are arranged to sequentially build a body of knowledge and a mental framework for management. Each chapter begins with a scenario taken from the same complex telehealth case study, reinforcing the complexity of management problems while introducing chapter concepts. This book is applicable to a wide range of healthcare organizations and combines time-tested fundamental principles with cutting-edge methods and current knowledge.

Each chapter in this new edition has updated information on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and strategies for managing clinical staff and performance, as well as “Try It, Apply It” real-world exercises. The book includes new and expanded content on topics such as:

• Key theories of management
• Project performance domains and principles
• The five categories of strategy
• Medical staff responsibilities, structure, and bylaws
• Creation of effective virtual teams
• Artificial intelligence in healthcare organizations
• Employee engagement
• Orientation of remote workers
• Motivating a diverse workforce
• Plan-do-study-act (PDSA) cycle, Lean, and Six Sigma
• COVID-19 response and impacts
• Burnout and psychological safety

End-of-chapter case study questions relate to the seven cases at the back of the book, including a new case involving a clinical care unit. Applying tools from multiple chapters to the same case study helps students realize that to fully solve management problems, they must use multiple kinds of tools and methods—just like today’s managers do. Each chapter ends with an ongoing real-world mini-case study and questions. The book concludes with a glossary, a list of ten suggested hands-on projects to help students use and integrate chapters, and a management toolbox that contains all the management tools taught throughout the text.

By studying Management of Healthcare Organizations: An Introduction, students will acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to analyze managerial problems and develop practical solutions in health care organizations.

 

 

Instructor Resources: Test bank; PowerPoint presentations; and an updated instructor’s manual with chapter overviews, answers to end-of-chapter discussion questions, answers to end-of-case discussion questions, and a transition guide to the new edition.

 

Now in its tenth edition, The Law of Healthcare Administration explores the serious legal challenges that healthcare leaders must be equipped to deal with. This classic text helps readers think through the issues, applying current legal principles and relevant judicial decisions.

 

Instructor Resources: Test bank, PowerPoint slides for each chapter, answers to the chapter questions, suggestions for presenting and discussing the cases, and a transition guide to the new edition. 

 

Developing and implementing strategy is one of the most challenging tasks for healthcare leaders, as it requires a wide range of skills and knowledge. Strategic Healthcare Management: Planning and Execution provides a thorough overview of strategic principles and the competencies needed to apply them, such as communication, decision making, positioning, goal setting, data analyses, project management, and financial analysis. The book emphasizes both competitive and collaborative strategies to help healthcare leaders further their organization's mission rather than merely outperform competitors.

The third edition includes more cases and expanded content. Two new chapters focus on the following subjects:

• The growing trend of healthcare data analytics, with emphasis on the importance of data-driven strategic analysis and the instruments used for extracting, manipulating, and visualizing data
• Project management principles to support strategy implementation, with an exploration of tools and techniques such as project charters, communication planning, scope definition, timelines, and Gantt charts.

Ten brand-new case studies have been added to this new edition. These scenarios highlight strategic issues healthcare professionals frequently face, including capitation and accountable care relationships, competitive positioning, alliance breakdowns, and vertical integration. End-of-chapter cases, examples, and assignments have also been updated. 

 

The fundamental concepts and theories of strategy, as well as the actual execution and assessment of strategic plans, are all covered in this book. Strategic Healthcare Management aims to provide readers with the theoretical foundation and hands-on experience they need to comprehend, apply, and assess strategies. 

 

Instructor Resources: Test bank, PowerPoint slides, answers to end-of-chapter questions and case studies, sample course syllabi, and a transition guide to the new edition. 

 

The field of long-term care continues to experience substantial expansion and change. Dimensions of Long-Term Care Management provides a comprehensive introduction to this dynamic and rapidly growing market. Readers will gain a thorough understanding of how long-term care is delivered and of what it is like to work in this sector.

The book begins with an overview of long-term services and supports, as well as trends and policy changes. The next chapters explain the continuum of long-term care services and care coordination across various settings. The book’s final section covers long-term care community operations, leadership and administration of these services, and legal and ethical challenges.

This revised edition includes updated statistics throughout and is aligned with the National Association of Long-Term Care Administrator Boards’ Domains of Practice for health services executives. It also features the following updates:

• A new chapter detailing the key business and clinical operations of long-term care communities and the administrator’s responsibilities
• A new chapter describing models for population health and wellness and their application to long-term care consumers
• Expanded discussion of staffing shortages including recruitment and retention strategies and a new human resources case study
• Updated regulatory information, including the new Medicare Conditions of Participation for all long-term care providers and the new Minimum Data Set information
• Expanded coverage of long-term care services leadership, including a new case study
• New case studies in several chapters that highlight the health disparities and health equity issues affecting long-term services and supports

Dimensions of Long-Term Care Management can be used in any business, gerontology, healthcare management, long-term care administration, or public health program to provide students with a broad understanding of the field and the career opportunities it provides.

 

Instructor Resources: Instructor’s manual and a transition guide to the new edition.