Health Services Management: Cases, Readings, and Commentary, Tenth Edition

Now in its tenth edition, Health Services Management: Cases, Readings, and Commentary, continues to provide a unique overview of management and organizational behavior theory.

Features 20 new cases!

The role of the health services manager is explained throughout the updated version of this classic textbook. The tenth edition includes 20 new cases that analyze current issues: service-line management, healthcare reform, the medical home, accountable care organizations, community benefit, and CEO compensation.

This book uses a three-pronged approach to examine the skills and experience health services managers need to succeed:

Commentaries introduce the topic and provide the context for the readings and cases that follow. Readings bring fresh voices to the topic and provide evidence and timely examples. Cases give students practice in making managerial decisions in a wide variety of settings and situations.

Ann Scheck McAlearney, ScD, MS, is professor of family medicine and vice chair for research in the Department of Family Medicine at the Ohio State University (OSU) College of Medicine. She also holds courtesy appointments at OSU as professor in the Division of Health Services Management and Policy in the College of Public Health and as professor of pediatrics. In 19 years at OSU, Dr. McAlearney has taught a variety of courses in organizational management, leadership, and strategic management for master’s and doctoral-level students, as well as a course on healthcare organization and financing for medical students. She has over 25 years of health services research experience and has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, 10 books (many coedited), and 80 book chapters. Dr. McAlearney received her bachelor of arts and sciences degree in English and biological sciences from Stanford University, her master of science degree in biological sciences also from Stanford, and her doctor of science degree in health policy and management from Harvard University’s School of Public Health.

 

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Health Services Management: A Case Study Approach, Eleventh Edition