Health Care Business

I once heard someone say, "You cannot aspire to be something you have never seen." This book is not only for every little Black girl out there who has dreamt of wearing a white coat and stethoscope but also for all the little Black girls who have not dreamt of it because they have never thought it possible.

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.

The United States has the most expensive healthcare system in the world. While policy makers have argued over who is at fault for this, the system has been quietly moving toward high-deductible insurance plans that require patients to pay large amounts out of pocket before insurance kicks in. The idea behind this shift is that patients will become better consumers of healthcare when forced to pay for their medical expenses.

Burnout is among the most critical topics in healthcare as it deprives us of our most important resource - the talents and passion of those who perform the difficult work of caring for patients and their families. The purpose of this work is to provide not only a taxonomy of burnout within the landscape of healthcare, but also to provide pathways for healthcare professionals to guide themselves and their organizations toward changing the culture and systems of their organization.

Atif Zafar is a neurologist, researcher, entrepreneur, advocate, mentor, coach, and a life-long student of science and leadership. In Why Doctors Need to Be Leaders, he shares his insights and perspective on physician leadership and why the evolution of physician mind-set in the current healthcare system is crucial. In this book, he wishes to converse with medical students, trainees, early career physicians, and other stakeholders to stimulate a transformative discussion and to instigate leadership.

Healthcare organizations continue to see escalating numbers of cyberattacks. It is no longer a matter of if your organization will be targeted, but when. What is at stake? Everything. Patient lives are at risk when their medical record data is compromised or encrypted by a ransomware attack. The privacy and security of patient information is at risk, as is evident from the hundreds of data breaches that make headlines each year.

As a Black woman, I have faced many challenges throughout my life, and thanks to these challenges, I've learned to stay focused and positive when things get tough. I learned that the words we say to ourselves have immense power over our lives and actions. For this very reason, I want to share with you more than 1000 incredibly effective positive affirmations—written specifically for black women—that have the power to positively impact every area of your life. This is possible by dedicating just a few minutes of your time each day

Press Ganey's chief nursing officer Christina Dempsey has worked everywhere in healthcare, from the ward floor to the hospital boardroom. She has also experienced the system as a patient and as a family member of a critically ill patient. In The Antidote to Suffering, this 30-year healthcare veteran and patient-experience thought leader argues that the key to improving healthcare is to reduce the suffering - physical, psychological, and emotional - of patients and caregivers alike through Compassionate Connected CareTM.

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.

Walk through this concisely written executive summary of how to manage the finances of your practice in just a few hours a month. Get up to speed on which financial reports to run, how to analyze them quickly, and how to be sure that your cash and other assets are safeguarded.

A lively, clear explanation of the American healthcare reform movement from a noted expert - giving women the tools they need to demand fair and affordable coverage for all people. Founder and CEO of Day Health Strategies Rosemarie Day wants women to recognize their trouble with accessing affordable care as part of a national emergency. Day encourages women throughout the country to share their stories and get involved, and she illustrates how a groundswell of activism, led by everyday women, could create the incentives our political leaders need to change course.

This book is dedicated to the legacy of those men and women who strive to create a better world with their expertise and commitment to providing healthcare services. Physicians Cookbook includes hundreds of proven relationship marketing recipes for success, including the success ingredients of lectures, in-house promotions, event management, health fairs, and much more in order to deliver your valuable services to more patients! My book will walk you down the road to success and assist you to lead your team.

Six Sigma Healthcare delivery means helping improve patient outcomes while driving down the cost of patient care. Doing so empowers healthcare providers to become more productive. Now, more than ever, the healthcare industry needs to embrace the economic value proposition of improving productivity. Healthcare sector can learn a good deal from industries that are working toward the Six Sigma goal. Let's try it in healthcare and see how close we can get.

While there are a growing number of books based on the Toyota Production System, or lean, focused on healthcare, there are very few that detail the tools that make lean more than just a way of thinking and put the methodology into practice.

Even before COVID hit, hospitals and healthcare systems in America were facing increased competition, new healthcare models, and changing consumers habits. After COVID, these issues are exacerbated. It is essential for organizations to identify their point of difference to create a compelling reason for consumers to choose them over the competition. Updated for the post-COVID economy, we've taken our ideas, experiences, and hospital marketing expertise and packaged it into this collection of educational essays.

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.

Health-care organizations cry out for a tool to decrease untoward events and bridge the communication gap between professional clinician teams and clients. Discover how to guide your team to creatively problem-solve, build emotional and social intelligence, increase workplace safety and employee retention, and guarantee client satisfaction with the results-don’t-lie Improv to Improve Healthcare system.

One thing is for sure: phlebotomists are not going anywhere, which means you have a golden opportunity on your hands. Add to that the fact that you’re a mobile business, so your start-up costs will be lower, and you’ll have more freedom with your schedule.

You might be interested in starting your own non-medical home care agency, but you’re overwhelmed with where you should begin. How do you begin the process of getting licensed? When should you start hiring? What else do you need to take care of before you can open? If you want to learn the ins and outs of getting this business started, and then be successful once you do open, then this audiobook is for you. Even if you don’t have experience working in this field, it doesn’t matter, you can do it!

As the owner of two health-care educational institutions, I often come in contact with anxiety-filled faces of individuals who really would like to become health-care professionals but do not know which careers to choose. I have seen many cases of individuals switching from one course to another and later settling for the third course where they think they have found their niche. In one case I had a student who wanted to draw blood but fainted during the introductory video on phlebotomy.