Cases In Health Care Management by Sharon B Buchbinder

Cases In Health Care Management by Sharon B Buchbinder

From the authors of the bestselling Introduction to Health Care Management comes this compendium of case studies that illustrate the challenges related to managing the healthcare services. Segmented by topic and setting, these cases span the full spectrum of issues that can arise in a variety of health care services settings.With a writing style that is lively and engaging, undergraduates in healthcare management, nursing, public administration, public health, gerontology, and allied health programs will find themselves absorbed in stories that bring to life the common issues encountered by healthcare managers every day. In addition, students in graduate programs will find the materials theory-based and thought provoking examples of real world scenarios.This book offers:• cutting-edge cases written by experts in the field•Identification of primary and secondary settings for cases•Discussion questions for each case•Additional resources for students with each case•Teaching/learning methods such as role play

Before retiring, Sharon B. Buchbinder, RN, PhD was Program Director for the MS in Healthcare Management Program and Dean of the Brown School of Business and Leadership at Stevenson University. Prior to that, she was professor and chair of the Department of Health Science at Towson University and president of the American Hospital Management Group Corporation, MASA Healthcare Co, a health care management education and health care delivery organization based in Owings Mills, Maryland. For more than four decades, Dr. Buchbinder has worked in many aspects of health care as a clinician, researcher, association executive, and academic. With a PhD in public health from the University of Illinois School of Public Health, she brings this blend of real-world experience and theoretical constructs to undergraduate and graduate face-to-face and online classrooms, where she is constantly reminded of how important good teaching really is. She is past chair of the Board of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) and coauthor of the Bugbee-Falk Award-winning Career Opportunities in Health Care Management: Perspectives from the Field. Dr. Buchbinder also co-authored Cases in Health Care Management (first and second editions).

Nancy H. Shanks, PhD, has extensive experience in the health care field. For 12 years, she worked as a health services researcher and health policy analyst and later served as the executive director of a grant-making, fund-raising foundation that was associated with a large multihospital system in Denver. During the last 20+ years, Dr. Shanks has been a health care administration educator at Metropolitan State University of Denver, where she taught a variety of undergraduate courses in health services management, organization, research, human resources management, strategic management, and law, as well as overseeing senior internship experiences. She is currently an Emeritus Professor of Health Care Management, after serving as chair of the Department of Health Professions for seven years. Dr. Shanks’s research interests have focused on health policy issues, such as providing access to health care for the uninsured.

Dale Buchbinder, MD, FACS, is Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Good Samaritan Hospital and Clinical Professor of Surgery at The University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Buchbinder served as Chair of Surgery for 18 years at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He also served as GBMC's Medical Director of Inpatient Surgical Services and Medical Director of the GBMC Wound Care Center. His experience as a physician leader and manager in two major community hospitals in Baltimore is augmented by his time spent as Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery at the Chicago Medical School in North Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Buchbinder has been elected to several surgical societies including the American College of Surgeons and the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Society for Vascular Surgery, past President of the Baltimore Academy of Surgery and Past President of the Maryland Chapter of the American College of Surgeons. He currently serves as Governor for the American College of Surgery from Maryland.

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ISBN 13	9781449674298
ISBN 10	1449674291
Title	Cases In Health Care Management
Author	Sharon B Buchbinder
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
Year published	2013-02-28
Number of pages	394
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