Health Care Management

Provides a comprehensive, research-based introduction to healthcare management. This book takes an international perspective and draws links between the theory and practice of healthcare management and how best practice might be achieved within healthcare systems.

Summary: "This set provides more than 1,000 entries covering topics in nursing and allied health written for students and professionals in the field. Alphabetically arranged entries cover topics in body systems and functions, conditions and common diseases, contemporary health care issues and theories, techniques and practices, and devices and equipment. Covers all major health professions, including nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and respiratory therapy."--The Publisher.

Includes topics such as - disability studies, environmental health, drug abuse, HIV/AIDS, epidemiology, nutrition, demographics, health education, LGBT health, and diseases.

Practical guide for new or future practicing healthcare managers. Includes - activities of the manager―planning, organizing, decision making, staffing, motivating, and budgeting―are succinctly defined, explained, and presented with detailed examples drawn from a variety of health care settings.

Includes a historical perspective and overview; standard of excellence; JCHC Accreditation information; Credentialing; Case load management...

Methods and process for reimbursement, including coding, reimbursement strategies, compliance, financial reporting, case mix index, and external auditing. Up-to-date [2016] coverage of the Affordable Care Act, to prepare health administration and health information management students with the necessary tools to successfully transition from the classroom to the health care facility. Topics covered include: claims processing; the Affordable Care Act; Medicare Prospective Payment System (Inpatient); Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment Systems (Non-Inpatient); coding for the non-HIM professional; revenue cycle management; healthcare fraud and abuse; electronic health records and meaningful use; government incentive programs; recovery audit contractors.

Teamwork is an undisputed asset for reducing medical errors, improving quality of patient care, resolving workload issues, and avoiding burnout. This text helps to foster the leadership expertise and partnerships that will facilitate the delivery of the highest-quality care. It based on the time-tested wisdom that leadership knowledge, skills and, competencies gained by training a group of nurses in the same organization rather than a single nurse are much more likely to result in genuine organizational transformation.

Content- Leadership valor in action -- Valor interrupted : leadership "seductions" and their impact -- The four steps of leadership valor -- Beyond the steps : what else is required for valiant leadership? -- Mastering valiant leadership.

Overview and history of geriatric care management -- Ethics and geriatric care management -- Psychosocial assessment in geriatric care management -- Functional assessment -- Care planning and geriatric assessment -- Ethnic and cultural considerations in GCM -- Moving an elder or late life relocation : the role of the GCM -- Spirituality -- Assessing and supporting the family caregiver ...Marketing aging life care management -- Private revenue sources for the fee based geriatric care -- Care management credentialing -- Preparing for emergencies -- Depression and the older adult -- Geriatric care management : working with nearly normal aging families -- Difficult families : conflict, dependence, and mutuality -- Mediation and geriatric care management.