Foundations of Health Care Management: Principles and Methods is designed to be a concise, reader-friendly, introductory text covering the most important issues in health care management, such as ethics, cost management, strategic planning and marketing, information technology, and human resources. The book offers important insights into the area of management of health care organizations and health care workers. The authors provide comprehensive coverage of the major issues that will be faced as managers of scarce resources during the revolution in health services delivery over the next five to 10 years. Among these revolutionary forces are health reform, comparative effectiveness research, increases in the use of information and patient care technology, labor shortages, and continuing evolution in the role of patients as consumers, The book serves an important dual purpose for faculty and students by providing both insights into the health care field as well as foundational content on essential management and leadership. Contents: Part 1: Introduction to Health Care Management Chapter 1 Critical Issues for Future of Health Care in the United States; Introduction; Changing Health Care Infrastructure; Emphasis on productivity in the use of health care resources; Emphasis on the efficiency of services delivery; Eliminating waste in health care delivery; Summary; Discussion Questions Chapter 2 Health Care Management Fundamentals; Introduction; Management theory; Managerial functions; Human resource management; Management of services; Summary; Discussion Questions Part 2: Managing in the External Environment 3 Strategy and Structure: Choosing a Path to Achieve Success; Introduction; Governance and Management of the Health Care Organization; Understanding the Operating Environment; Vision, Mission and Objectives: Defining Success; Strategic Choices and Processes; Organizational Structure and the Design of Work; Systems and Network Relations; Physician Network: The Specific Case; Summary;n he