Cases in Health Care Management

The new Second Edition of Cases in Health Care Management is a collection of over 100 new and cutting-edge case studies designed to help illustrate the challenges related to managing the health care services. Organized into nine content areas, from Leadership, Management, and Quality/Patient Safety; to Health Disparities and Cultural Competence, Ethics, and more, these realistic scenarios span the full spectrum of issues that can arise in a variety of health care services settings. Appropriate for all levels of higher education, this text engages students in active learning through lively writing and storytelling techniques that pull them into the story while giving them fresh, provocative real-world scenarios to analyze and critique. Furthermore, the authors have incorporated diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and cultural competency throughout to encourage greater cultural awareness, sensitivity, and fairness. Key Features: - More than one hundred new cutting-edge cases written by experts in the field - Discussion questions and additional resources for students are provided for each case - Case study guidelines and instructions, with rubrics for evaluation of student performance are provided in Appendix A - Instructors' case study guides to facilitate class and online discussions are part of the instructor resources-available to qualified instructors - New matrix (offered as an instructor's resource) helps instructors assess the suitability of each case for different student audiences (community college, undergraduate, or graduate students)

Author: Sharon B. Buchbinder, Nancy H. Shanks, Dale Buchbinder
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Published: 07/25/2022
Pages: 350
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781284180398

About the Author
Buchbinder, Dale: - Chairman, Department of Surgery, Good Samaritan Hospital, Clinical Professor of Surgery, The University of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore, MarylandBuchbinder, Sharon B.: - Sharon B. Buchbinder, RN, PhD, is currently Professor and Program Coordinator of the MS in Healthcare Management Program at Stevenson University in Stevenson, Maryland. Prior to this, 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-author Cases in Health Care Management with Nancy Shanks and Dale Buchbinder.Shanks, Nancy H.: - 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.