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Introduction to Health Policy, Third Edition
Instructor Resources: Test bank, PowerPoint slides, answer guides for discussion questions, and a transition guide to the new edition.

While healthcare has always been a priority for policymakers, the COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for policy to evolve to prepare for future risks to the health of populations in the United States and worldwide. Understanding the fundamentals of health policy enables healthcare leaders to help improve it.

In Introduction to Health Policy, Dr. Leiyu Shi provides an accessible overview of how health policy is created and analyzed. As a prominent authority in the field, he provides insight into domestic and international policy issues related to healthcare financing, delivery, and diverse populations.

Each chapter includes real-world cases from various settings, additional feature content that provides context, key points of clarification, and discussion questions. The chapters on healthcare research delve into numerous examples of commonly used quantitative and qualitative methods.

This revised third edition contains a new case in each chapter, as well as new and updated coverage of:
The Affordable Care Act and President Biden’s healthcare reforms
The Healthy People 2030 initiative
COVID-19-related policies
The One Health movement
Maryland’s All-Payer Model initiative
Health equity and racial justice
Global health policies and development
Policymaking and the influence of special interests
This primer prepares future leaders to address health policy issues that will affect the patients in their organizations while also contributing to the creation of a better healthcare system overall.
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Fundamentals of Human Resources in Healthcare, Third Edition
INVENTORY EXPECTED APRIL 2023!

Important Note: Due to ongoing supply chain challenges with paper shortages and press time, publication dates have been established with the most current information available. Please note that publication dates may shift due to circumstances beyond our control. We thank you in advance for your patience and understanding.

Instructor Resources: Test bank and Instructor’s Manual.

A healthcare organization’s performance is inextricably linked to how successfully its employees perform their jobs. All healthcare executives, regardless of their title or position within an organization, must understand how to motivate and manage personnel effectively.

Fundamentals of Human Resources in Healthcare provides a comprehensive overview of the multiple disciplines and functions that workforce management requires, such as employee motivation, compensation, and training strategies. The book covers foundational principles as well as practical tools and techniques.

This edition discusses the Great Resignation’s effect on healthcare employee–employer relations and the human resource challenges exacerbated by the trend. Many chapters feature new discussion questions, activities, and vignettes that place the content in a contemporary context. Thoroughly revised and updated, this third edition includes the following:
A new chapter that addresses healthcare employee burnout and provides strategies for fostering employee well-being
Expanded content on employee engagement interventions and how they impact organizational effectiveness
Discussion of how to employ analytics, algorithms, and other tools for job analysis and design
Revamped diversity, equity, and inclusion content that incorporates the notion of belonging and introduces the concepts of intersectionality and inclusive leadership
An overview of implementation-science concepts and methodologies from the perspective of the healthcare workforce
Discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on employee retention, supported by new research and turnover data
With Fundamentals of Healthcare Human Resources, readers will learn best practices in human resources, tools for analyzing workforce issues, and evidence-based techniques for managing an organization’s most valuable asset: its people.
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Dimensions of Long-Term Care Management: An Introduction, Third Edition
INVENTORY EXPECTED MID-MARCH 2023!

Important Note: Due to ongoing supply chain challenges with paper shortages and press time, publication dates have been established with the most current information available. Please note that publication dates may shift due to circumstances beyond our control. We thank you in advance for your patience and understanding.

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.

Long-term care continues to evolve and change, especially in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Dimensions of Long-Term Care Management provides a comprehensive overview of this field and how it has been affected by regulatory changes, the response to these changes by managers performing their day-to-day operations, and the opportunities presented by the growing use of technology along with skilled workforce shortages. Readers will gain a thorough understanding of how long-term services and supports are delivered and what it is like to work in this sector.

The book opens with an overview of long-term services, supports, and systems for coordination of care and care transitions—from acute to post-acute and long-term—in light of policy changes. The next chapters focus on the importance of taking a population health and health equity perspective in administration of these services, as well as support for cultural competence training. The book’s final section covers long-term care community operations, leadership and administration of these services, legal and ethical challenges, and risk management and quality improvement to ensure successful patient outcomes and safety.

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 workforce 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 assessment
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.
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Health Services Management: A Case Study Approach, Twelfth Edition

COMING SOON!

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

Health Services Management: A Case Study Approach offers a diverse collection of case studies to help readers learn and apply key concepts of management, with an emphasis on the use of evidence in management practice. The book presents management challenges across a variety of settings and potential responses by health services managers and other stakeholders.

This thoroughly revised twelfth edition is organized in four parts: values and culture, focus, authority and responsibility, and performance assessment. Each section starts with an introduction exploring the section’s content topic, followed by both new and updated cases examining managerial predicaments. The cases offer fictional narratives based on real situations and real data. In this classic text, the book’s authors share management theories and a framework for how the cases relate to each other.

Readers of Health Services Management will discover practical strategies for responding to the myriad of challenges they’ll face and, ultimately, achieving organizational goals.
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