Legal Essentials of Health Care Administration

Cloth cover, 365+ pages
ISBN: 0763761303
978-0763761301
Jones & Bartlett
September 2008
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Legal Essentials in Health Care Administration is a distillation of the most important topics from the widely popular Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration by the same author.

Using reader-friendly, jargon-free language, this text unravels the complexities of the legal system in health care and provides the reader with a strong foundation in health law. Readers will gain a solid understanding of what steps providers of care, legislative bodies, patients, patients’ families, and patient advocates can take to help prevent the wide variety of harmful events that are involved in health care. Chapters cover:

Historical Perspective
Introduction to Law
Tort Law
Criminal Aspects of Health Care
Contracts and Antitrust
Civil Procedure and Trial Practice
Corporate Structure and Liability
Medical Staff
Nursing and the Law
Liability by Departments and Health Care Professionals
Information Management and Health Care Records
Patient Consent
Legal Reporting Requirements
Issues of Procreation
Patient Rights and Responsibilities
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Health Care Ethics
Professional Liability Insurance
Labor Relations
Employment, Discipline, and Discharge
Managed Care and Organizational Restructuring
Tort Reform Risk Reduction
Patient Safety and Zero Tolerance
Worldwide Search
Journey to Excellence

This book is a sound reference for anyone who wishes to become more informed about how the law, ethics, and health care intersect.

Actual court cases, state and federal statutes, and common-law principles are examined.
A historical perspective on the development of hospitals, illustrating both their progress and failures through the centuries.
A broad discussion of the legal system, including the sources of law and government organization.
A basic review of tort law, criminal issues, contracts, civil procedure and trial practice, and a wide range of real-life legal and ethical dilemmas that caregivers have faced as they wound their way through the courts.
An overview of various ways to improve the quality and delivery of health care.

“The paperback is less expensive and it contains all essentials for exposing students to law as it relates to health care in the U.S.A.” —Thomas P. McCabe, JD, MBA, Dept. of Health Care Administration, California State University, Long Beach

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Front Matter
Chapter One

George D. Pozgar, MBA, CHE, is President of his own consulting firm, Gp Health Care Consulting, in Annapolis, Maryland. Mr. Pozgar has consulted, been an instructor in ethics, and surveyed and reviewed ethical issues as part of the survey process in more than 600 hospitals across the nation. His experience as a hospital administrator, health care surveyor, educator, consultant, and author has served him well in preparation for this text Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals. Mr. Pozgar has served on the Editorial Board of The Health Care Supervisor and has authored all nine editions of Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration, as well as Jones and Bartlett’s Long Term Care and the Law, and Case Law in Health Administration.

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