Health care administration : principles and practices / edited by Lawrence F. Wolper, Jesus J. Peņa. - Rockville, Md. : Aspen Publishers, 1987. - xv, 548 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Part 1: Organization of the hospital
Chapter 1. History of hospitals
Chapter 2. Planning health care facilities and managing the development process
Chapter 3. Legal structure of hospitals
Chapter 4. The role of the board and its trustees
Chapter 5. The human resources department in hospitals
Chapter 6. Management engineering: role in increasing productivity
Chapter 7. Hospital information systems
Chapter 8. Quality assurance
Chapter 9. The shifting nature of management accounting practices in the health sector
Chapter 10. Hospital and physician third party reimbursement
Chapter 11. Integration of planning, marketing development and public relations
Chapter 12. Health care strategic planning
Chapter 13. Marketing health care services
Chapter 14. The hospital administrator and private phiyanthropy
Chapter 15. Health care joint ventures
Chapter 16. Financing of health care facilities
Chapter 17. Voluntary accreditation of hospitals
Chapter 18. Multihospital systems
Chapter 19. Hospital organization and management
Chapter 20. The medical staff

Part II: Operational aspects of the hospital and industry
Chapter 21. Hospital-based ambulatory care
Chapter 22. Nursing education administration, practice and research
Chapter 23. Admitting
Chapter 24. Facilities management
Chapter 25. Environmental services
Chapter 26. Department of nutrition, dietetics and food services
Chapter 27. Clinical information services
Chapter 28. Laboratories
Chapter 29. Radiology
Chapter 30. Pharmacy
Chapter 31. Materials management
Chapter 32. Corporate cost containment
Chapter 33. The health sciences library

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Hospitals--Administration.
Health services administration.
Hospital Administration.

WX 150 H4337 1987