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Managing Quality and Safety in Long-Term Care sets a precedent as the premier textbook for future leaders in long-term care designed to provide them with the tools and evidence-based strategies needed to successfully implement quality and safety protocols in senior living facilities. Each chapter extensively reviews quality and safety issues in long-term care and emphasizes what managers must know to both enhance quality and safety performance and retain a skilled long-term care workforce. Additionally, the text highlights the key performance indicators that future long-term care leaders can apply to better react to the quickly evolving issues they will encounter in practice. Detailed case studies throughout the book provide examples from effective and ineffective facilities, and specific challenges for improving or maintaining best practices.The text innovatively explores the root causes of quality and safety issues in long-term care, integrating cutting-edge, evidence-based research in practical applications. It distills these insights into actionable recommendations aimed at helping healthcare administrators and professionals improve quality and safety in long-term care through their decision-making, strategic planning, data gathering, and forecasting. Chapters contain important learning objectives, take-home points, tools for further learning, and real-world examples. Managing Quality and Safety in Long-Term Care imparts the science and art of managing quality and safety in senior living facilities, critical for students in long-term care administration, healthcare administration and management, gerontology, public health, and related fields. Additionally, it serves as a crucial resource for anyone seeking licensure from the National Board of Long-term Care Administrators (the NAB). Purchase includes online access via most mobile devices or computers.Key Features:Provides evidence-based information that can be applied to day-to-day management activities to effectively address disparities in long-term careWritten and reviewed by leading experts in the long-term care field and licensed long-term care administratorsIncludes insightful case studies that encourage students to assess effective and ineffective quality and safety practices in long-term care facilitiesFeatures practical and engaging discussion questions in each chapterHighlights key innovations, including technological advancements, shaping the landscape of the long-term care industryQualified instructors have access to expanded Instructor Resources, which include chapter PowerPoints, a Test bank, an Instructor Manual with learning activities and discussion questions for each chapter, a Sample Syllabus, and additional resources to supplement students' dynamic learning and interaction with the text

The Challenges of Health Disparities: Implications and Actions for Health Care Professionals explores health disparities in the United States and their implications from the perspective of health care administration. The book begins with a broad overview of health disparities including definitions from local, state, and federal legislation, as well as alternative definitions. The authors examine current and past frameworks of analysis regarding the causes of disparities and provide a statistical overview of death rates and their implications for health care administrators. In the final section of the book, each chapter looks at health disparities within each type of health care environment such as physician practices, hospitals, pharmaceutical products, Medicare/Medicaid, long-term care, insurance markets, and more.

Isms - typically defined as harmful and discriminatory philosophies or views - are a threat to human unity and may affect outcome maximization in healthcare workplaces. Isms in Health Care Human Resources: A Concise Guide to Workplace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion lays a foundation in which readers can become familiar with diversity, equity and inclusion issues in the workplace and gain an understanding of how isms in health care can reduce output and elevate costs. After providing an overview of isms in healthcare and other workplaces, this concise text closely examines various isms, from central tendancyism and sexualism to IQism and heterosexism while covering a range of other isms. It then proposes strategies for intermediation for healthcare administrators in order to guide them in reducing isms in the workplace and, in turn, maximizing output.Key Features:• Thorough discussion of relevant current events and hot topics, including the Me-Too Movement and the growing advocacy for LGBTQ communities.• Well-supported by extensive data amp research on diversity, equity and inclusion in healthcare marketplaces.• Concise length and focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion makes this text an excellent resource for any Health Care Human Resources or Organizational Leadership course.• Instructor resources include an additional PowerPoint presentation on "Reducing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace by Unraveling its Causes" and a test bank that assesses Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 healthcare administration competencies.