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"A foundation in health care finance; practical skills to manage a budget and the vocabulary to communicate effectively with staff, other managers, and the health care executive management team. For students of Nursing and other allied health professionals who are furthering their career by stepping into management roles and/or are pursuing MHA's or Nursing Leadership/Management degrees and certificates"--

Healthcare Finance and Managerial Control over Expenses -- Building a Basic Budget - Incremental Budgeting -- Accounting for Change - Forecasting -- Incorporating Actual Output in to the Budget - Flexible Budgeting -- Managing the Budget - Variance Analysis -- Replacing and Adding Assets - Capital Budgeting -- Leveraging Financial Information to Improve Performance and Outcomes.

Management and budgeting -- Accounting and economics -- Budget incentives and strategies -- Output forecasts and revenue budgets -- Scratch budgeting -- Incremental budgeting -- Flexile budgeting -- Zero-base budgeting -- Program budgeting -- Activity-based budgeting -- Variance analysts -- Ratio analysis and operating indicators -- Cost benefit analysis. Cost effectiveness analysis, and program evaluation -- Financial functions for finance and planners -- Financial functions for finance -- Strategic financial planning -- Management and heath care

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Author -- Reviewers -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Lean Six Sigma -- Introduction -- The STEEEP Goals of Health Care -- The Five Principles of Lean Six Sigma and the Toyota House -- Lean Six Sigma Forerunners -- Systems, Waste, and Improvement -- Systems and SIPOC -- Improving System Performance Using 5S -- Recognizing and Eliminating Waste: The Eight Wastes -- Achieving Continuous Improvement -- The Path from Problem Solving to Organizational Transformation -- The A3 Report -- Lean 6σ and You -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 2 Evaluating the U.S. Healthcare System, Value, and Variation -- Introduction -- Value -- Translating Value into Priorities and Resource Requirements -- Natural and Special Cause Variation -- Variation in Outcomes -- Variation in Use of Healthcare Services -- Variation in Use of Healthcare Inputs and Cost -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 3 The Role of Statistics -- Introduction -- Statistics -- Causation and Correlation -- Types of Statistics -- Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion -- Sampling -- Sampling Definitions -- Categorical and Numeric Variables -- Probability -- Probability Definitions -- Marginal, Conditional, and Joint Probability -- Sensitivity, Specificity, Predictive Value, and Bayes Law -- Probability Distributions -- Risk Adjustment -- Risk Factors -- Clinical Patient Inputs -- Nonclinical Patient Inputs -- Treatment -- Random Events -- Outcomes -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 4 Overview of the DMAIC Process -- Introduction -- The Lean Six Sigma Concept -- Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control: DMAIC -- Lean Six Sigma Goals -- Implementing Change and Achieving Goals -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 5 DMAIC: Define -- Introduction -- The Define Stage.

Increasingly health care organizations are challenged to improve patient outcomes, redesign business processes, and execute quality and risk management initiatives. Health Care Quality Management offers anintroduction to the field and practice of quality management, provides hands-on experience with Excel and other tools, and shows how these principles are adopted by health care organizations to improve patient outcomes and program quality. The book includes case studies to illustrate how patient outcomes have been improved and business processes redesigned to achieve improvements in quality