Health care organizations are increasingly challenged by the need to provide high-quality, safe, and efficient patient care while keeping costs low. Lean Six Sigma, which provides a framework to improve quality and increase efficiency with clear and measurable outcomes, is an essential tool for managers to set the health care industry on a sustainable path. Written to address this growing demand for Lean Six Sigma expertise in healthcare organizations, Applying Lean Six Sigma in Health Care: A Practical Guide to Performance Improvement provides a step-by-step explanation of the Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) process as well as performance improvement techniques and terminology. With a focus on learning through doing, readers will actively engage the DMAIC process by applying it to an improvement project that is carried through the text. * An active learning approach where students read, calculate, write and reflect as they work through problem-solving exercises, case studies, and other activities. * An ongoing case study on improving pain management (in chapters 5 -10) that demonstrates a completed process. * A capstone project that engages students in applying all phases of DMAIC to complete a Lean Six Sigma project. * Excel practice throughout to show how data is summarized (Chapter 6), analyzed (Chapter 7), and reported (Chapter 9). * Excel files and templates (such as Gantt charts and Cause and Effect diagrams) that offer additional resources and examples provided online.

Baker's Health Care Finance: Basic Tools for Nonfinancial Managers, Sixth Edition is the most practical and applied text for those who need a basic and better understanding of health care financial management. Using actual examples from hospitals, long-term care facilities, and home health agencies, this user-friendly text includes practical information for the nonfinancial manager charged with budgeting. With new chapters on using Excel and Lean Six Sigma as well as all new cases that test students' mastery of concepts and tools, the new Sixth Edition is designed to give students an understanding of how healthcare organizations operate, provide them with the skills to analyze financial performance, prepare and manage operating budgets, prepare capital budgets, and improve financial performance. Key Features: - New chapter on Using Excel ensures students have understanding this useful financial tool. - New chapter shows how Lean Six Sigma can be used to improve financial performance. - New Part VIII offers new case studies (breakeven analysis; ratios and operating indicators; budgeting; etc) that give students the opportunity to apply concepts learned. - End of chapter problems reinforce chapter concepts. - Navigate eBook Access (included with the printed text) provides convenient online or offline access to the digital text from a computer, tablet, or mobile device.