Hospitals: What They Are and How They Work / Edition 4

by Donald J. Griffin

Overview

Hospitals and medical centers are very complex operations, treating thousands of patients, not yearly, but monthly. Some patients visit the hospital for routine tests or outpatient imaging services, others to give birth, many face life threatening emergencies, and some will not leave the institution alive…so is the daily routine of a modern medical center whether in San Marcos, Texas, Shanghai, China, or Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

This text is designed to simplify the complexity of the medical center by breaking it down into manageable portions. The reader will be guided not only through the medical, surgical, ancillary and support services, the financial center responsible for accounting, billing, collecting and the ever important budget. The reader should be able to better understand the necessity of quality improvement, patient safety, and accreditation.

The Fourth Edition features new contributing authors for each chapter—experts on issues such as hospital finance, medical records, laboratory science, nursing, and more. Using a consistent framework, the chapters are woven together to provide seamless instruction for your students. The text begins with a history of hospitals, hospital leadership and the board, then spans to the hands-on care-givers such as the medical staff, nurses, lab, imaging, pharmacy and various therapists, then covers ancillary and support services and the all to important finance division.

The text is designed for healthcare students of all types, whether clinical such as medical students, nursing, physical therapy, respiratory, or laboratory, or non-clinical students such as healthcare administration, health information management, or healthcare finance…anyone seeking a macro view of today’s hospital delivery system. The text is an all encompassing examination of hospitals, what they are and how they work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763791094
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	11/23/2010
Edition description:	4
Pages:	438
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Assistant Professor, School of Health Administration, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas

Table of Contents

Part 1 An Overview of Hospitals
Chapter 1 History of Hospitals and Healthcare
Chapter 2 Hospitals and Important Hospital Trends
Part 2 Leadership
Chapter 3 Organizational Structure, the Governing Body, and the CEO
Part 3 Accessing the Hospital
Chapter 4 Doorways into the Hospital
Part 4 The Hospital Team
Chapter 5 The Medical Staff
Chapter 6 Physician Extenders
Chapter 7 Nursing Services
Chapter 8 Older Patients in the Hospital
Part 5 Key Ancillary Services
Chapter 9 Clinical Lab oratory and the Pathologist
Chapter 10 Diagnostic Imaging and Therapeutic Radiology Departments
Chapter 11 Physical Therapy
Chapter 12 Respiratory Therapy
Chapter 13 Communication Disorders
Chapter 14 Pharmacy
Part 6 Patient Support Services
Chapter 15 Hospital Essentials
Chapter 16 Social Services
Chapter 17 Health Information Management
Part 7 Facilities Support and Security
Chapter 18 Supporting the Medical Center
Chapter 19 Safeguarding the Hospital
Part 8 Administrative Services and Issue s
Chapter 20 Human Resources, Risk Management, Legal Services, and Corporate Compliance
Chapter 21 The Importance of Diversity in a Health Care Organization
Chapter 22 Hospital Accreditation and Liscensing
Chapter 23 Hospital Marketing
Chapter 24 Strategic Planning
Part 9 Hospital Financial Issue s
Chapter 25 Finance
Chapter 26 Generating Revenue – 3rd Part y Payers by Types and Percentages
Part 10 Evaluating and Insuring the Quality of Care
Chapter 27 Performance Improvement
Chapter 28 The Importance of Bioethics
Appendix A Case Studies
Appendix B Glossary
Appendix C Hospital URLs