The Well-Managed Healthcare Organization, Eighth Edition

Suite of Online Learning Resources:Increase student engagement and enhance your teaching with resources that integrate easily into many institutions' learning management system. Student study and practice materials include "auto-feedback" multiple-choice questions and questions for discussion that reflect realistic situations that managers are likely to encounter in healthcare organizations. Instructor materials include analyses of the multiple-choice questions, key talking points for the questions for discussion, gradable review questions with accompanying rubrics, and PowerPoint slides of the book's exhibits.The Well-Managed Healthcare Organization is the most comprehensive text on healthcare manage-ment. Drawing on the experiences of high-performing and Baldrige Award-winning organizations, it de-tails how to manage a healthcare organization using evidence, best practices, benchmarks, and a culture of continuous improvement. This popular resource has prepared thousands of healthcare management, nursing, medical, allied health, and health information management students to effectively lead in healthcare organizations (HCOs).This edition describes how HCOs are responding to the Affordable Care Act by increasing their role in population health management and expanding their focus from acute to comprehensive care. In particu-lar, this edition discusses:*Creating accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes*Shifting from a "volume" to a "value" focus*Creating a culture of high reliability to improve outcome measures*Designing the electronic health record to meet meaningful use standards and incorporate big da-ta*Building cooperative teams through workforce planning and inclusion

About the Author

Kenneth R. White, PhD, APRN-BC, FACHE, FAAN, is the University of Virginia Medical Center endowed professor of nursing and associate dean for strategic partnerships and innovation at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. He also holds appointments in the Uni¬versity of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce and Darden School of Business. Dr. White has more than 40 years of experience in healthcare in clinical, administrative, gov¬ernance, academic, and consulting capacities.

John R. Griffith, MBA, LFACHE, is professor emeritus in the Department of Health Manage¬ment and Pol-icy at the School of Public Health of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has served as chair of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, as a commissioner for the Accrediting Commission on Education in Health Services Administration, and as senior adviser to the board of the National Center for Healthcare Leadership. In 2014, Professor Griffith was inducted into Modern Healthcare's Health Care Hall of Fame.