Hospitals And Health Systems

Description

Hospitals and Health Systems: What They Are and How They Work takes a practical approach to explaining the history, development, and structure of modern health care institutions. Early chapters discuss the history of the hospital, Medicare and Medicaid, health insurance, as well as managed care and reimbursement to set the context for the modern hospital and health system network. The text moves on to explain how hospital mergers, reaction to cost escalation, and government and religious affiliations have led to the emergence of health systems, of which hospitals are an important part. Finally, it delves into operating today’s modern hospital, including care structure and organization, direct patient care, staffing, physical facility, business activities (billing, accounting, health information management, electronic health records, etc.), and unions.

Key Features

Contributions by experts from both professional practice and academia provide fresh insights and different perspectives
Each chapter offers key terms, learning objectives, and chapter summaries to enhance learning
End-of-chapter review and discussion questions encourage critical thinking

Table of Contents

1. Chapter 1 Hospitals: Origins and Growth: From Early Times to 1900
2. Chapter 2 Becoming the Center of the “Healthcare System”: 1900 to 1945
3. Chapter 3 The American Hospital from 1945 to the Present
4. Chapter 4 Medicare and Medicaid: Major Game-Changers
5. Chapter 5 Enter Managed Care
6. Chapter 6 Health Benefits Coverage and Types of Health Plans
7. Chapter 7 Reimbursement: Following the Money
8. Chapter 8 Is Bigger Better? Hospitals and “Merger Mania”
9. Chapter 9 The Health System Emerges
10. Chapter 10 Mergers, Acquisitions, and the Government
11. Chapter 11 Structure, Organization, and Portals to Care
12. Chapter 12 Direct Patient Care: The Hospital Team
13. Chapter 13 Staffing Shortages: Then, Now, and Continuing
14. Chapter 14 The Physical Facility
15. Chapter 15 Business Activities and the Business of Medicine
16. Chapter 16 Unions in Healthcare Organizations

Author Biography

Charles R. McConnell, MBA, CM – Human Resource and Editorial Consultant, Ontario, New York
Charles R. McConnell started his professional career in industrial and management engineering, followed by 29 years in human resources management in the healthcare industry. During those years he served as a human resources manager for affiliated organizations of a multi-facility healthcare system based in Rochester, New York, and earlier as a senior consultant with the Management and Planning Services division of the Hospital Association of New York State. He currently is an independent human resources and editorial consultant who has published more than 20 books and numerous articles, and serves as editor of a quarterly professional journal. He holds a BS in engineering and an MBA from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and has served as adjunct faculty at several colleges.