Check out this month’s selections for the “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, we have titles for healthcare professionals at every stage of their career.
Healthcare Leadership and Rural Communities: Challenges, Strategies, and Solutions
Leaders of rural healthcare organizations confront unique challenges. Payment systems, power dynamics, labor availability and accessible resources differ considerably between rural and urban areas.
Healthcare Leadership and Rural Communities: Challenges, Strategies, and Solutions outlines what it takes to manage care in a rural community and provides advice on overcoming the common challenges that healthcare executives confront. The authors provide candid insights gained from their experience as rural healthcare managers and their work with leaders in the field.
Published in collaboration with the National Rural Health Association, the book covers topics including measuring and managing rural care quality, financing and funding rural healthcare, meeting demand for mental and behavioral health services, recognizing and addressing rural health inequity, and responding to the rural healthcare crisis.
Case studies provide an excellent starting point for discussions with healthcare teams, boards, providers and local leaders on how to solve real-life difficulties and enhance cooperation.
All healthcare organizations are linked to their communities, but rural providers have particularly strong ties. This book emphasizes the need for collaboration to safeguard the futures of organizations and their communities.
This recently published book will help leaders find their footing in the new healthcare landscape. It describes how to attract and retain talent by reducing hierarchical communication, reinvigorating workers’ sense of purpose and empowering them to do their best work.
Kevin Joseph, MD, FACHE, is a physician leader who has insights into the interactions between doctors, administrators and clinical staff. His broad perspective has molded his leadership philosophy, which is grounded in the power of discovering and sustaining purpose. Throughout the book, the author shares one of his guiding principles as a healthcare executive: break down the power gradient and put people first, which can shift the culture and result in improved patient outcomes and metrics.
Topics covered include how to inspire employees to change their perceptions of themselves, their roles and their relationships with patients; creative ways to boost engagement by meaningfully connecting with caregivers; the four types of feedback every leader should master; and best practices that leaders can use to level up their communication.
Feelin’ Alright: How the Message in the Music Can Make Healthcare Healthier
Feelin’ Alright leverages the emotional power of song lyrics to inspire healthcare executives to envision and build a more accessible, high-quality and equitable healthcare system. Using music as a metaphor, author Stephen Klasko, MD, encourages readers to examine what is problematic in the existing healthcare model and to take tangible steps toward a more consumer-centered healthcare experience.
Dr. Klasko shares his experiences as a physician, a health system CEO, and a university president and dean about how to bridge the gap between academic health systems and digital health innovators and entrepreneurs. Each chapter features his multifaceted perspective and is anchored with a song that reflects the chapter’s central themes.
Topics covered include the power of partnerships between healthcare providers and technology companies, why consumers are starting to rebel against traditional healthcare, what radical changes are needed to decrease health inequity, and the emerging technologies that address social determinants of health.
Feelin’ Alright will motivate healthcare executives to take the lead in building a better healthcare system.