The Well-Managed Healthcare Organization, Ninth Edition

Instructor Resources: Test bank with application-oriented multiple choice questions (new to this edition), presentation PowerPoint slides (new to this edition), PowerPoint slides of all the book's exhibits, and instructor notes for the book's Practice Applications section. In the shifting world of contemporary healthcare, future leaders need a firm foundation. For eight editions, The Well-Managed Healthcare Organization has been building students' skills, and this ninth edition once again prepares students to apply evidence-based practices that lead to high performance in healthcare organizations of all types and sizes. Authors Kenneth R. White and John R. Griffith integrate the long-standing clinical and logistical elements of excellent care with contemporary movements, such as establishing a transformational culture; continuous improvement; benchmarking, tracking, and measurement; servant leadership; staff empowerment and retention; and building interprofessional teams. This edition has been thoroughly updated with coverage of pressing new issues, such as: The shift to population healthFinancial success under risk-based paymentThe Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, including updated requirements for meaningful useDiversity, inclusion, and implicit biasData securityProfessional autonomy for nursesData-based approaches to marketing The use of licensed independent practitioners Featuring a robust set of instructor resources to enrich classroom learning, as well as in-depth examinations of real-life Baldrige Award–winning organizations, this new edition blends well-established concepts with cutting-edge best practices to introduce students to healthcare excellence in the twenty-first century.