A Career Guide for the Health Services Manager

by Kovner, Anthony R.; Channing, Alan H.

• ISBN13: 9781567931112
• ISBN10: 1567931111
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Foundation of the Amer College

Summary

Kovner (management, New York U.) and Channing, president of a Cleveland hospital, explain the skills necessary to be a successful manager in the health care industry. They include skills for managing a personal career, and working with supervisors and clinicians and touch on organizational structure and the various responsibilities of health-care managers. They mention no dates for earlier editions, but have shortened the third and changed its name from Really Trying: The Work of Effective CEOs in Large Health Organizations.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface to the Third Edition	xi
Acknowledgments	xii
Health Services Organizations	1	(16)
Health Services Managers	17	(24)
Managerial Contribution to Effective Performance	41	(16)
Finding Your Niche	57	(24)
Managing Yourself	81	(12)
Managing Your Team	93	(18)
Managing the Work	111	(16)
Working with Physicians and Other Clinicians	127	(24)
Maxims for Healthcare Managers	151	(10)
Using the Computer: Internet and E-mail	161	(8)
Professional Organizations for Health Services Managers	169	(6)
Appendices	175	(16)
References	191	(2)
Suggestions for Future Reading	193	(2)
Index	195