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Product Description: American College of Healthcare Executives 2000 James A. Hamilton book of the year award Written by Dennis Pointer and James Orlikoff, two of the most experienced and highly regarded governance consultants in the country, Board Work presents a practical model focusing on those factors that most affect board performance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Effectively Manage Key Stakeholders This helpful book shows health care executives how to integrate their day-to-day activities with their organization's strategic objectives. Using an explicitly strategic approach, it will help managers understand and put into practice the skills they need to manage key stakeholders effectively...read more

Product Description: Creating Knowledge Based Healthcare Organizations brings together high quality concepts closely related to how knowledge management can be utilized in healthcare. It includes the methodologies, systems, and approaches needed to create and manage knowledge in various types of healthcare organizations...read more

Product Description: Whether you're designing from the ground up or trying to improve the services of an existing facility, here is a cornucopia of techniques to make your care program more dementia-friendly. Margaret P. Calkins spearheads this 4-volume resource, which describes how to integrate the physical environment, care practices, and residents' needs into a complementary, holistic approach to dementia care...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Whether you're designing from the ground up or trying to improve the services of an existing facility, here is a cornucopia of techniques to make your care program more dementia-friendly. Margaret P. Calkins spearheads this 4-volume resource, which describes how to integrate the physical environment, care practices, and residents' needs into a complementary, holistic approach to dementia care...read more

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Product Description: This book presents an array of investigation in the area of hospital communication, including internists negotiating end-of-life issues, spinal clinicians addressing the organization of surgery, and laboratory scientists coping with the introduction of a new test ordering software...read more

Product Description: The Excellent Board II is a collection of articles that cover topics vitally important to a board's effectiveness. It addresses new legal and regulatory accountabilities facing CEOs and governing boards with new information on hospital-physician relationships and information technology...read more

Product Description: The Excellent Board is a proven resource for hospital trustees and directors who have accepted the responsibility of guiding their institutions to financial success and who regularly make strategic decisions that affect the health, and in some cases the welfare, of their communities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Provides sound advice on the critical elements of managerial control--including allocating resources, training, and monitoring performance--and offers guidance for systematically applying these principles to the management of health care programs...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Dennis D. Pointer and James E. Orlikoff, two of the most experienced and highly regarded governance consultants in the country, have written a definitive guide for health care boards that want to maximize their performance and help their organizations reach full potential. Getting to Great presents a set of easily applied principles and best practices based on a model that has been proven to strengthen health care governance. Filled with tools and techniques, this practical guide includes * A model of health care governance used by the best health care boards * Seventy-two governance principles and associated practices and tips on helping the board to use them * Checkups for assessing a board * Guidelines for implementing principle-based governance This guide will be an invaluable resource for health care board members and executives who are committed to investing in their organization's future.

Product Description: ...takes a broad approach in acquainting students of all levels of healthcare supervision to such current and important topics as managed care, mergers, sexual harassment, and accrediting (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text is designed to acquaint the student with the role of supervision in a healthcare organizational setting. Coverage includes information technology and implications, managed care and healthcare reform systems. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)