"Emergency Medical Services: Finance" is intended to be used as a resource for the application of finance principles in a managerial context. Written for non-financial managers, new managers, or professionals who aspire to become better managers, the text provides valuable finance knowledge that is easily incorporated into management processes. Encouraging critical-thinking skills, the text helps EMS managers gain an understanding of the "why's" and "how's" and the "rights" and "wrongs" of tracking finances through an EMS organization, develop a fiscally sound EMS program, and analyze business activity in order to inform sound decision making. *****This title is available only through the Pearson Custom Library (PCL). To order, click here www.pearsoncustomlibrary.com.
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EMS Safety and Risk Management is designed to assist EMS providers in the reduction of line-of-duty injuries, illnesses, and fatalities. For information on teaching and learning resources, please contact your Brady representative. Teaching and Learning Experience * Provides a framework for developing programs that will create an appropriate margin of health and safety during the performance of EMS duties. * Offers students a strong foundation in the areas of safety and health. ***** This title is available only through the Pearson Custom Library (PCL). To order, click here www.pearsoncustomlibrary.com. PCL allows customers to create customized textbooks, giving students a more engaging and affordable education. Customers also have the option of purchasing the full text without customization in the Pearson Custom Library. For more information about customization opportunities, refer to http://www.pearsoncustomlibrary.com. Because this program is print-on-demand, printing will not start until we receive a purchase order from your bookstore. Please place your book order with the bookstore as soon as possible to ensure timely delivery. Please allow 2-4 weeks for your book to print. Additional time is required for outside content and/or packaging with other components.

Emergency management is a vibrant and growing field, driven by government spending in the wake of terrorist attacks and natural disasters and by private-sector hiring of risk managers and emergency planners. Practicing professionals need a book that provides a solid foundation in the principles of disaster planning, mitigation, response, communications, and recovery, and since 2003, "Introduction to Emergency Management" has led the market among introductory EM books. As climate change and development lead to more numerous and more costly disasters and as countries around the world continue to struggle with terrorism, the number of emergency managers and business continuity planners continues to rise. The private sector partners with local, state, and federal government to prepare for and recover from crises. This 4e gives still more focused, current, thoughtfully analyzed information on the all-hazards, all-actors approach to emergency management.

* Expanded coverage of risk management * Enhanced coverage of disaster communications, including social networking sites like Twitter * More material on mitigation of disasters * Up-to-date information on the role of FEMA in the Obama administration

This Executive Report Takes You Step-By-Step Through The Process Of Developing Integrated Delivery Systems. You'll Learn Eleven Fundamental Building Blocks For Integration And How To Apply These Methods To Redesign And Improve Your Existing Processes And Systems.

As health systems divide and conquer, health care professionals are fi nding themselves in new employment situation -- working for larger org anizations or supervising new groups of employees. With this change co mes a need to take a new look at the laws that affect employee benefit s -- including ERISA, group health plans, COBRA, and more. Here's a co ncise briefing on the legal issues involved in health care employee be nefits administration, with specific references to statutes and court rulings that are relevant in the health care setting. A practical over view of a complex legal area.

Emergency Response to Domestic Terrorism analyzes the emergency response to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.
Terrorism is a complex threat, and the American government is expected to deter or intervene in every attack. For that reason, the government must be better prepared to respond to acts of terror. One critical element is to understand what constitutes an "effective response."
To answer this key question, the author examined the existing literature and interviewed thirty-one elite participants in the emergency response to the bombing. The result is a unique qualitative case study that analyzes the response efforts undertaken after the bombing to draw conclusions about their relative success or failure.
Emergency Response to Domestic Terrorism looks at the nature and interrelationship of bureaucratic structures involved in the response, the organizational networking between the response bureaucracy, and the impact of bureaucratic culture on the response.
The work contributes to the existing literatures in both emergency response and bureaucracy. First, theoretical arguments about bureaucracies and their function are put to the test as they are applied to a specific crisis situation. Second, interview materials with key individuals who were on the scene of this American terrorist disaster are provided. Third, the emergency response literature is examined to determine whether the Oklahoma City bombing exhibited the anticipated response challenges. In addition, the work provides insights into the extent to which response communities are familiar with federal response guidelines. The overall results of the study are applicable to emergency response to terrorist incidents and to natural disasters.
By bringing together the academic and the practical aspects of emergency response, the work will appeal to students, practitioners, and policymakers. Further, it will foster better understanding of public policy and public administration in general.

Home Health Redesign introduces home health providers to integrated ca re delivery systems and shows how to capture and control costs and out comes, how to deal with staffing issues, and how to gain accreditation from all relevant organizations, including the National Council for Q uality Assurance. Changes in documentation, information management, an d marketing and billing are addressed. Implementation issues, maintain ing the restructured organization, and quality assessment and improvem ent strategies such as benchmarking are covered. An abundance of pract ical tools, such as tracking tools, orientation outlines, job descript ions, and examples of documentation and competency assessment and perf ormance tools support the text.

The first quality management handbook developed specifically for the h ome health care industry, this book provides a comprehensive program w ith step-by-step guidelines, ready-to-use models, charts, sample forms, questionnaires, surveys, letters, and reports everything needed to d esign, implement, and maintain an effective program. It includes vital information regarding OSHA and Joint Commission requirements and inte rnational standards, as well as auditing and statistical data collecti on and evaluation techniques. This book provides the framework for tra nsforming a home care company into a customer driven organization. Too ls and techniques are provided to establish unparalleled service excel lence throughout the delivery of care and subsequent business transact ions.

The all-in-one guide to a successful ambulatory care business This co mprehensive handbook presents effective methods of providing health ca re within the ambulatory care setting, including: information on how t o structure and organize a medical group, the role of the medical dire ctor; professional and technical nursing; the collaboration of physici ans and nurses; staffing and scheduling methodologies; quality assuran ce; utilization review; risk management; information systems; and much more.

You'll find the practical guidance you need to transition smoothly int o the managed care environment. You'll learn the pros and cons of prac ticing in a managed care setting, the daily life of managed care physi cians, the role of managed care in medical education and health care r eform. Discover how to take advantage of new opportunities and avoid p itfalls, balance cost consideration with clinical decision-making, and understand the case mix systems most frequently used in managed care. Written almost entirely by physicians, The Physician's Guide to Manag ed Care is a must for any physician interested in meeting future chall enges.

Hansten and Washburn, the AJN award-winning author team who brought us Clinical Delegation Skills for Nurses and The Nurse Manager's Answer Book, have produced a hands-on resource to help patient-care executive s and staff developers train and support nurses in making the needed c hanges in a restructured health care delivery environment. A systemati c educational program provides nurse leaders and trainers with practic al tools such as surveys, training agendas, learner outcomes, job desc riptions, and encouraging and illustrative accounts of real-life restr ucturing and training efforts.

Guide to Clinical Resource Management is the first in a series of thre e handbooks. Clinical Resource Management (CRM) is the next stage in t he evolution of restructuring/reengineering. It involves advanced prac tice clinical case management, restructuring the quality and utilizati on departments, and creating multidisciplinary clinical service teams that cross the traditional boundaries of hospital departments, clinics, and physicians. The handbook details the design, implementation, and evaluation of a CRM program in an institution well advanced in restru cturing the delivery of acute care and offers a strategy for surviving and succeeding in a managed care environment.

This volume makes a significant contribution to the crisis management literature. It also adds to our inchoate understanding of network governance: temporary teams and task forces, communities of practice, alliances, and virtual organizations. It hints that the distinction between networks and organizations may be somewhat spurious, a matter of degree rather than kind. Indeed, it seems that this distinction may derive more from mental models in which we consistently reify organizations than anything else. Finally, the volume emphasizes the functional importance of leadership in network governance and puzzles over its provision in the absence of hierarchy. As such, it adds to the contributions made by Marc Granovetter (1973), John Seeley Brown and Paul Duguid (1991), Bart Nooteboom (2000), Paul J. DiMaggio (2001), John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt (2001), Laurence O'Toole and Ken Meier (2004), and others, as well as Nancy Roberts' seminal work on wicked problems and hastily formed teams. The result is a product the editor and the contributors can be proud of. Overall, it is one that will edify, surprise, and delight its readers.

With this volume, get an in-depth look at hospital-based ambulatory ca re. Articles on the planning and development of programs and services, emergency services, financial issues, and managerial issues make this volume a "must have" resource for administrators, ambulatory care pro fessionals and students as well. This book is attractively priced in s oft cover.

As most public safety professionals are aware, the events that require emergency response personnel also frequently attract members of the news media. In emergencies ranging from terrorist attacks to a car accident on a local road, reporters and cameramen on the scene often use the comments and actions of front-line responders as integral components to their news story. With this in mind, Media Relations for Public Safety Professionals provides a primer for emergency responders who find themselves confronted by the media. Covering such essential topics as press releases, the types of media, and interviewing techniques, this book provides public safety professionals with the tools necessary to successfully interact with the media. The wide range of topics and information covered by Media Relations for Public Safety Professionals makes it an indispensable resource for any level emergency response personnel, from the department rookie to the seasoned Public Relations Officer. As an EMS provider, you know that your education does not stop when you finish your initial training. The things you learn in the field and in continuing education classes give you the extra skills and knowledge to make you the best provider you can be. The EMS Continuing Education Series was created to help you take that extra step toward not just being a great provider, but an outstanding one.

Retired Coast Guardsmen Denis Noble captures the stories of the brave crews who man the U.S. Coast Guard's small boat stations. Each year, these everyday heroes respond to over 37,000 calls for assistance and save more than 4,000 lives. Lifeboat Sailors bears witness to the courage of these unique men and women, and sounds the alarm for the rescue of this cherished American institution.

The fire was visible from seventy miles away and the heat generated was so intense that a helicopter could only circle the rig at a perimeter of one mile. On the surface of the sea, a converted fishing trawler inched as close as possible, but the paint on the vessel’s hull blistered and burnt. In the water surrounding the inferno, men’s heads could be seen bobbing like apples as their yellow hard hats melted with the heat.

On 6 July 1988 a series of explosions ripped through the Piper Alpha oil platform, 110 miles north-east of Aberdeen in the North Sea. Ablaze with 226 men on board, the searing temperatures caused the platform to collapse in just two hours. Only sixty-one would survive by leaping over 100 feet into the water below.

Newly updated for the thirtieth year since the tragedy, Fire in the Night by journalist Stephen McGinty tells in gripping detail the devastating story of that summer evening. Combining interviews with survivors, witness statements and transcripts from the official inquiry into the disaster, this is the moving and vivid tale of what remains the worst offshore oil-rig disaster to date.

There has been an international move towards the creation of explicit markets in health care, in which the purchase of care is separated from provision. While the creation of such markets has undeniably led to improvements in certain aspects of health care, it has also raised important issues that have yet to be resolved - for example, is an escalation of management costs an inevitable consequence of the introduction of a market in health care? what sort of information is needed to make the market function efficiently? can a market-based system be compatible wit society's objectives relating to equity and solidarity? the UK governments is introducing reforms to the internal care market in the Uk National Health Service which seek to address concerns such as these, and this book comprises a series of commentaries on their plans from a group of leading health economists. Authors examiner the contribution of economics to the debate on the reforms, while seeking to make the analysis accessible to a general audience.; This is recommended reading for students and researchers of health policy and health economics, as well as health professionals and policy makers at all levels in the healt

What happens when the demanding consumers who nearly brought the U.S. automobile industry to its knees focus the same kinds of pressure on the industry that represents one-seventh of the U.S. economy--health care? The health organizations that combine quality, convenience, information, choices, and lower costs will be the winners in this revolution. Regina Herzlinger, chaired professor at the Harvard Business School, distills the facts from the noise surrounding the one industry whose measures of success are life and death. In a thoroughly readable, anecdotal style, she pinpoints the drivers of change--the savvy consumer, the cost-conscious payer, and the rapidly improving technology--that will revolutionize the American health-care system. This is a must-read for those in every corner of the immense health-care web. With its strong narrative style, this is a book that will be read and talked about by everyone concerned about the future of American health care.

Promotes the importance of understanding spirituality and religious belief in health and human service care Although health and human service professionals traditionally receive extensive training in the emotional and physical aspects of caring for a person, they rarely receive adequate instruction in an area often as essential--spirituality and religious belief. Recognizing the importance of religion to a large share of the population, Religious and Spiritual Aspects of Human Services fills this gap in human services literature. James W. Ellor, F. Ellen Netting, and Jane M. Thibault address the challenge of understanding the client's perspective--even when it involves a religious tradition unfamiliar to the practitioner--and consider the impact of the client's needs on the agency and on public policy.

Using MDS Quality Indicators to Improve Outcomes is designed to be use d by your staff immediately upon purchase. All MDS QIs are covered in the 11 Monitoring plans, with corresponding Data Retrieval Worksheets. The worksheets get your staff immediately collecting data on the area s that the MDS QIs indicate need for improvement. Monitoring plans exa mine care delivery in areas such as nutrition, skin care, and medicati on use. Plus you'll get expert guidance on developing an ongoing quali ty improvement process. This book supports a team process to successfu lly improve care delivery systems.

In recent years women's issues have begun to move higher up the health services agenda. However, there have been few attempts to set out the rationale for this, or to document the good practice initiatives that have resulted. This unique book undertakes both these tasks. The first part examines the theoretical, conceptual and empirical underpinning of current arguments for greater gender awareness in health planning; while the second explores a variety of schemes designed to put these new ideas into practice. The aim of these case studies is to show what can be done, but also to identify the many challenges and pitfalls involved. As the first book of its kind, Women and Health Services will be useful to teachers and students on a wide range of both professional and academic courses. It will also be an important resource for policy makers and practitioners, offering a rationale for change as well as concrete examples of what has been achieved within the current structure of health services. Features * two-part structure provides a combination of theory and practice in one volume * tackles key issues of central concern to target audience * each section features an introductory overview by Lesley Doyal * topic-based approach makes it ideal for use on courses with students * written and edited by leading authorities in the field

Public involvement is a key theme within the post-reform NHS, with an emphasis on involving people in healthcare decision-making, improving accountability to the public, and developing a stronger focus on the consumer. This text seeks to establish a framework for public involvement in healthcare.;Focusing on purchasing, the authors describe the central factors driving involvement, and the organizational structures and processes which underpin it. Recommendations are made for the development of effective strategies for public involvement in healthcare purchasing. A discussion of current issues and debates is set within a wider theoretical and historical examination of the concepts of "citizenship and "accountability", detailing the role of the consumer in the context of the major changes in the organization and delivery of public services which have taken place in Britain in the last two decades.

Donna Peters, a noted expert in outcomes and data management in home h ealth care, and Tad McKeon, author of Home Health Financial Management, team up to assess the current home health care environment in light of quality, cost, and data collection issues. The most prevalent sourc es of data including outcomes measurement, professional standards, reg ulatory requirements, consumer expectations, care guidelines, and acti vity-based costing are examined. The book addresses how one uses data to derive information that can be used to improve performance and exam ines how to use data to achieve excellence, not just to satisfy regula tors.

In this authoritative book, the dean of health care analysts discusses the future of American hospitals in the rice of downsizings, mergers, and closings. Eli Ginzberg assesses the different approaches hospitals and their physician staffs have made toward becoming part of an integrated health network, and he explores such trends as the growth of managed-care plans, development of alternative treatment sites for long-term patients, cooperation among community hospitals, and health service management by primary care physicians.

"Ginzberg has codified the conventional wisdom regarding all the problems -- organizational, structural, financial, and managerial -- currently besetting our hospitals. He has provided a concise description, both broad and specific, of the roots of these problems. He also spreads the responsibility among the external environment and the changes occurring there and the hospitals themselves". -- Bernard S. Bloom, Journal of the American Medical Association

"This well-written book provides a general overview of the past (beginning with the post-World War II years) and a forecast of the future of acute care hospitals. Ginzberg manages to compress much information into a slender volume". -- Health Affairs

"For any American interested in understanding the nature of the health care crisis into which we are plunging headlong, this book should be required reading". -- Mitchell T. Rabkin, M.D., president, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston