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From the recognized experts in health administration comes a newly revised edition of the authoritative text for health services managers! Articulate and highly readable, the fifth edition of Managing Health Services Organizations and Systems examines virtually every aspect of health services management. While still providing comprehensive coverage of the conceptual frameworks for managing the organization and delivery of health services, the fifth edition has been streamlined for a more focused and integrated presentation of material. Increased emphasis on public health and delivery of public health services is incorporated throughout the text, and expanded content on strategic planning and marketing is offered in separate chapters. A host of other improvements include * 56 case studies, many new or revised * extensively updated chapter on healthcare technology* more figures and tables* new discussion questions among scores suggested throughout the text * completely revised instructor s manual with additional cases not included in the text* comprehensive index With these extensive revisions, you can be confident that Managing Health Services Organizations and Systems, Fifth Edition, will provide your students with the comprehensive information you have come to expect on health services management. Future health care services managers will benefit from information on managerial problem solving, resource allocation and utilization, effective communication, organizational culture, continuous quality improvement, human resources, facilitation of change, and ethical and legal responsibilities.Teach your students how to tackle the challenging issues facing today s health services managers with the text trusted by more than 250 colleges and universities across the country. Order this new and improved edition of the best health services management text on the market today!

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Great reference for healthcare adninistrator by Madam Bovary (California, USA)

5 Stars
October 12, 2009
I had to buy this book for a doctoral class, I thought I'd never use it again but I have found that it is a great reference book.

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4 Stars
June 30, 2009
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Outlines many solid models depending on a particular facility's speciality or goal by Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)

5 Stars
February 10, 2009
When the management of a health facility is botched, people can die. "Managing Health Services Organizations and Systems" is the newly expanded and updated fifth edition, continuing its well-earned reputation for being a complete and comprehensive manual for health care facility management. Discussing healthcare in the modern United States, its long and storied history, and the vast variety of different organizations throughout. Business models are required to efficiently run a medical facility, and the book outlines many solid models depending on a particular facility's speciality or goal. It also discusses personnel, ranging from the janitorial staff to corporate executive officers. Other chapters include the development of hospital technology, the law and the many challenges the field faces in it, basic finance, and many more. Enhanced with indexes, glossaries, acronym guides, and much more, "Managing Health Services Organizations and Systems" is an absolute essential to any health organization and for community library collections catering to hospital administration.

Dry and boring by ShopGirl (Chicago, IL)

1 Stars
September 23, 2008
This book is so dry and dense...the material is not difficult, but the book is poorly organized and written in such a boring manner that you really do not want to take the time to read it (even if it's for a class). I have other books on health care organization that are MUCH more user-friendly and actually interesting to read. Don't buy this book unless you really have to.

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