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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Finance, Accounting, Economics, Billing & Reimbursement > Finance and Budgeting for Nursing Home Professionals: A Practical Guide for Non-Financial Managers Finance and Budgeting for Nursing Home Professionals: A Practical Guide for Non-Financial Managers Dr. Brian Garavaglia Perfect Paperback: 182 pages, 11" x 8.5" + bonus CD-ROM ISBN 1601462778 978-1601462770  HCPro October 2008 (click below for the very best currently available price for this resource) Take on the financial responsibilities of healthcare management in long-term care! Finance and Budgeting for Nursing Home Professionals: A Practical Guide for Non-Financial Managers is a comprehensive guide designed specifically to help long-term care managers produce, present, and defend the departmental budget. Author Brian Garavaglia, Ph.D., offers tips and tools that break down the confusing and often foreign, financial side of healthcare. This one-of-a-kind resource offers step-by-step instructions, and helpful charts that translate the confusing language, number crunching, and report reading into information that managers can apply to budget planning and preparing in long-term care settings. Finance and Budgeting for Nursing Home Professionals helps you do your job by providing: Concise explanations of the finance and budget cycle in nursing homes for non-financial professionals Real-world examples and case studies that illustrate the right way to manage finance and budgeting All the forms necessary to successfully manage the budget Clarification of how revenue and budgeting intersect and the effect it has on the bottom line Description of the SNF and PPS revenue challenges and how they affect financial planning A one-of-a-kind tool from the source you trust. This resource offers timely, need-to-know information to help managers of various types run a successful facility without spending time searching through multiple sources. This guide offers everything a new manager needs to effectively maintain a facility’s financial planning. Take a look at the table of contents: Chapter 1: The General Accounting Procedure Chapter 2: Financial Statements Chapter 3: Debits, Credits, and Postings to Accounts Chapter 4: The Accounting Cycle Chapter 5: Inventory Chapter 6: Planning and Budgeting Chapter 7: Cost Containment in Long-Term Care Chapter 8: PPDs As the Benchmark for Measurement Chapter 9: Labor Costs Chapter 10: The Staff Chapter 11: Medicaid, Medicare, and Third-Party Payment Chapter 12: The Financial Implications for Insurance Policies Chapter 13: Consolidated Billing and the MDS Chapter 14: Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis for Long-Term Care Administrators Traditional Scientific Tenets Chapter 15: Common Quantitative Analytical Techniques for Healthcare Administration Chapter 16: Correlation: The Importance of Measuring Relationships between Variables Chapter 17: Inferentially Based Statistical Procedures Chapter 18: The Time Value of Money Chapter 19: Planning Through the Use of Networks Finance and Budgeting for Nursing Home Professionals comes with a CD-ROM with forms to help meet your financial responsibilities throughout your career. The CD-ROM also contains tools you can use to assess employee satisfaction and productivity. Who should buy this book? This condensed, easy to read resource about finance and budgeting is the perfect guide for nurse managers, VPs of nursing, chief nursing officers, directors of nursing, nursing home administrators, ASC, home health, and rehab nursing administrators, staff educators, clinical managers, and directors of education. Dr. Brian Garavaglia, is a long-term care administrator, gerontologist, consultant, author, and educator. He has 27 years of experience in healthcare, especially in dealing with older adults in the long-term care setting. He currently works as a nursing home administrator in Michigan and is also affiliated with colleges and universities within Michigan and Arizona.   With more than 17 years of experience, HCPro, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated information, education, training, and consulting products and services in the vital areas of healthcare regulation and compliance. The company's mission is to meet the specialized informational, advisory, and educational needs of the healthcare industry. As an acknowledged industry authority in healthcare regulation and compliance, HCPro focuses on providing its clients assistance and expertise in the areas of accreditation, medical staff affairs, credentialing, privileging, medical record management, regulatory compliance, nursing, quality/patient safety, infection control, and workplace safety. 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