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.
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 185 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
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978-1-284-23316-2 (9781284233162)
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Thomas K. Ross is an Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Health Care Management at Appalachian State University where he teaches Health Care Finance and Introduction to Health System Organization. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from St. Louis University, and a MBA in Finance and Accounting from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Ross has four books in print, Practical Health Care Budgeting: A Concise Guide, 2020, Applying Lean Six Sigma in Health Care, 2019, and A Comprehensive Guide to Budgeting for Health Care Managers, 2018, all published by Jones and Bartlett Learning. His first book, Health Care Quality Management, was published in 2014 by Jossey-Bass. He has previously taught classes in research, quality management, strategic planning, and economics at East Carolina University, Kings College (PA), Indiana University South Bend, and Saint Louis University. Prior to entering education, Dr. Ross worked in health care finance as a director of patient accounts, manager of system support, and senior financial analyst.''
