Before retiring, Sharon B. Buchbinder, RN, PhD was Program Director for the MS in Healthcare Management Program and Dean of the Brown School of Business and Leadership at Stevenson University. Prior to that, she was professor and chair of the Department of Health Science at Towson University and president of the American Hospital Management Group Corporation, MASA Healthcare Co, a health care management education and health care delivery organization based in Owings Mills, Maryland. For more than four decades, Dr. Buchbinder has worked in many aspects of health care as a clinician, researcher, association executive, and academic. With a PhD in public health from the University of Illinois School of Public Health, she brings this blend of real-world experience and theoretical constructs to undergraduate and graduate face-to-face and online classrooms, where she is constantly reminded of how important good teaching really is. She is past chair of the Board of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) and coauthor of the Bugbee-Falk Award-winning Career Opportunities in Health Care Management: Perspectives from the Field. Dr. Buchbinder also co-authored Cases in Health Care Management (first and second editions).

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Covering a range of healthcare settings, Introduction to Health Care Management, Fifth Edition provides a solid orientation to management in the health care discipline. Written for students just entering the field, this reader friendly text is filled with examples designed to engage the reader's imagination, while addressing the important issues in healthcare management, such as ethics, cost management, strategic planning and marketing, information technology, human resources, and more.The new Fifth Edition integrates population health and information management throughout and offers new coverage of artificial intelligence (AI), the lasting impact of COVID 19, and concepts and issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Many of the cases and exercises are new or significantly updated to reflect current healthcare management challenges, while research resources and references have been updated throughout. Key Features: - Extensively updated with new information and data while chapter organization remains consistent to prior edition.- New and updated examples and case studies cover an assortment of healthcare management topics in a wide variety of settings.- Unparalleled instructors' resources include updated test banks now with short essay questions and answer rationales, PowerPoint presentation slides, and instructor manual with discussion questions, sample syllabi, and more. - A case study guide, with rubrics for evaluation of student performance, enable instructors at every level of experience to hit the ground running on that first day of class- Navigate Advantage Access, included with the text, provides access to a comprehensive and interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, and more.