Health Care Business

"[E]veryone's health—including that of the next generation—may depend more on the health of society and the healing of nations than on the conquest of disease." Norman Cousins' experience with a massive heart attack is used as a case study in how to mobilize inner resources to overcome fear and panic. He also he generalizes from his experience with life-threatening illness to examine the experience of life-threatened humanity.

Told through a collection of insights from the author's own career, as well as advice from emerging and established healthcare leaders, Crush the Climb brings together diverse points of view into a handbook for students and early career professionals who aspire to be great healthcare leaders. Discover 11 lessons that will help you survive and thrive in the today's healthcare industry and crush the climb,

As the American healthcare system sorts out the ramifications of healthcare reform, patients have quietly reinvented the healthcare decision-making process, refining their own roles and changing their expectations of the people and organizations they turn to for care. To attract and engage these empowered, self-directed patients, healthcare marketers will need to overcome their addiction to outdated strategies and tactics, and to make significant behavioral changes in the way they go to market.

As a leader, is it possible to be both successful and humble? Studies show that today's emerging leaders not only prioritize achievement over humility but also see the two as mutually exclusive. Does this signal an existential crisis for healthcare - an industry that, at its essence, is supposed to embody humility and compassion? Thankfully, no, according to Intangibles: The Unexpected Traits of High-Performing Healthcare Leaders, which demonstrates that you can embrace humility and still be excellent at your job.

Do you feel "stuck" in your life right now? Whether you struggle with depression, anxiety, trauma—or simply feel unhappy or unmotivated—you may be seeking ways to find meaning, or discover the inspiration you need to create a new path in life that better serves you. Mindfulness has gained popularity as a self-help solution for a variety of mental health issues, and mindfulness meditation has been touted as powerfully effective in helping people find focus and balance in order to complete important tasks. But you may wonder, "How does one actually do mindfulness?"

Being a healthcare professional can be incredibly rewarding, but it can also come with long hours and burnout. If you love helping patients, yet feel overwhelmed and unhappy, then clinic ownership could be the answer.

Are you looking after yourself? For so for many of us, with so much to do and think about, self care - taking care of our mental, emotional, and physical health and well-being - often falls by the wayside. The Self-Care Handbook equips you to make positive, helpful choices for incorporating self-care into your life. It explains how to take responsibility for your own well being and provides ideas and practical advice on how you can better look after yourself.

Every organization, whether in healthcare or beyond, relies on key referral sources or centers of influence to grow and thrive. How can you ensure these vital connections are actively driving potential customers or clients your way? Systematic referral source marketing is your untapped advantage.

The Healthcare Heretic is both a call for disruptive change to a system that is clearly broken and a rallying cry to potential leaders of the economy of the future. It challenges the obsolete mind-set of the Industrial Age - decayed notions that have lulled corporations and the people who work for them into the illusion that doing things the “old way” is safe and that change is a danger to all.

Based on three years of research and more than 300 firsthand interviews with experts, Your Best Health Care Now is your easy-to-follow, real-world guide to making today's health system work for you. You'll learn all the smart moves and timely tips to get better care and save hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars - no matter what your concerns may be. Whether you're trying to book a free checkup, negotiate with a surgeon, or worrying about high insurance deductibles and rising premiums, Your Best Health Care Now has the answers you need.

How to lead with heart and run an effective healthcare organization! Sarah McVanel empowers you with the ROCK leadership behaviours that will produce STAR results both right now and post-change. Written in a practical, non-nonsense style, Rock Star provides advice and guidelines to help you focus on what matters most - your people.

Learn to harness an unconventional tool for leadership success. As the president and chief executive officer of Kindred Healthcare LLC, Ben Breier has witnessed massive disruptions to the healthcare industry. Gaining an early understanding of how to survive disruptions on the baseball field proved to be invaluable when he entered this challenging field. Using techniques honed over the course of his leadership career, Ben has been able to not only survive disruptions but thrive using intentional disruption as a business strategy.

Ellie Francis delivers a powerful, uplifting, spunky mom-strength coaching book to get you going! (Re)focus on your mind-set, mental health, and self-care - while laughing through the realities of hardworking mom life. This book will encourage, uplift, and inspire all busy mothers who are truly “juggling it all” - and looking good doing it!

Are you feeling the burden of staff shortages resulting in burnouts? The responsibilities of Human Resource Management today can be overwhelming, not to mention physically and emotionally demanding too From shortages of required skill sets to recruitment optimization strategies, Human Resource Management is a highly demanding career. If you are an HR Manager in the Healthcare sector looking for some answers, then Human Resource Management is the book you need Here are a few highlights of what you will find inside: The role of HRM in Healthcare.

It is imperative that we empower Black women to find their voice and advocate for their healthcare needs in a system that often silences them. Through techniques such as solution-focused approaches, addressing implicit bias and racism, developing resilience and self-advocacy skills, building supportive communities, and utilizing trauma-informed care principles, we can work towards creating a more equitable healthcare system for Black women.

While modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive. For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcare's ills. But medicine stubbornly resisted computerization - until now. Over the past five years, thanks largely to billions of dollars in federal incentives, health care has finally gone digital.

This is a “how to” book for leaders in healthcare. Lessons learned from 30+ years as a nursing executive, an executive coach, and as an equestrian have been interwoven to describe what it takes for success as a leader for teams in healthcare and in horsemanship. The author sees similarities in both arenas.

“Leading Healthcare Transformation: Doctors, Nurses, and Managers at the Helm” is an exhaustive analysis of the modern dynamics in the healthcare sector, with a particular emphasis on middle management leadership. It provides a deep dive into the roles, responsibilities, and leadership abilities required by different professionals, including doctors, nurses, and managers.

In a riveting portrait of the world's largest HIV/AIDS medical-care provider, award-winning journalist Patrick Range McDonald reveals AIDS Healthcare Foundation's unlikely rise from a feisty grassroots organization during the height of 1980s AIDS crisis to its position today as a global leader in the fight to control HIV and AIDS. This untold story highlights AHF's bold history of activism, its hard-charging advocacy on the behalf of vulnerable people, and its heroic efforts to provide free HIV drug treatment around the world.

In Physician Leadership, renowned medical leader Dr. Karen J. Nichols delivers a concise guide for busy physicians doing their best to successfully lead people and organizations. The book covers foundational leadership essentials that every physician needs to master to transform themselves from a highly motivated novice leader into an effective, skilled, and productive leader.