Check out this month’s selections for our “What’s On Your Bookshelf?” series from Health Administration Press, the publishing division of the Foundation of the American College of Healthcare Executives. As one of the largest publishers in the field of healthcare management, there are titles for healthcare professionals at every stage of their career.
Order any book now through Jan. 7, 2022, and receive a 20% discount when you use the promo code HOLIDAY21 at checkout as part of our HAP Holiday Sale. This discount excludes any multibook sets that are already discounted and the Board of Governors Exam flashcards.
The Leaders Within: Engagement, Leadership Development, and Succession Planning
The Leaders Within: Engagement, Leadership Development, and Succession Planning presents an integrated model for creating an organizational infrastructure in which leadership development acts as a funnel for succession planning. When they follow this guidance, readers can enhance their organization’s learning, leadership and longevity.
The authors draw on their real-world experiences in a large health system to define the three unique roles in creating a successful leadership development and succession planning program: the Visionary, who helps the organization and its employees see their future potential; the Architect, who oversees the actual implementation of the program; and the Board Advocate, who secures the governing board’s support for the process. Readers will recognize which role they personally play and gain a deeper understanding of how their organization can embed leadership development and succession planning in its DNA.
Leading a Hospital Turnaround A Practical Guide
No healthcare organization is immune to financial decline, which means healthcare leaders must be able to recognize the warning signs of financial distress and take action to maintain or restore their organization’s financial health.
Anthony K. Jones, FACHE, the author of this step-by-step guide, shares what he learned while leading several successful financial turnarounds, along with concrete tools and action plans. He also provides candid advice about minimizing the fears of employees, physicians and board members, providing readers with insights on how to preserve crucial relationships while directly addressing difficult questions.
High-Reliability Healthcare: Improving Patient Safety and Outcomes with Six Sigma, Second Edition
High reliability organizations prioritize safety over other performance measures and equip staff with operational tactics to help them anticipate potential problems early on and respond to threats. Driven by the desire to improve, healthcare providers have recognized that the principles and approaches of high reliability organizations have much to offer them in meeting important goals related to outcomes and safety.
High-Reliability Healthcare: Improving Patient Safety and Outcomes with Six Sigma explores how the Six Sigma approach to quality improvement integrates with and complements the culture of high reliability organizations. Six Sigma strives to reduce variability both by reducing errors and by standardizing processes, and it provides the ground-up support structure for a high reliability culture. Written in a practical, how-to style and now extensively revised, this book provides healthcare executives with a tool kit for understanding variability, managing change, and ultimately reducing errors and improving patient outcomes.