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101 Answers to Questions Leaders Ask - April 2005
10 More Powerful Ideas for Improving Patient Care - Nov 2005
10 Powerful Ideas for Improving Patient Care - Apr 2005
10 Powerful Ideas for Improving Patient Care, Book 3 - Dec 2006
10 Powerful Ideas for Improving Patient Care, Book 4 - ACHE, Dec 2007
30 Essential Policies & Procedures for Long-term Care - HCPro, Feb 2006
Accreditation & Survey - please review resources on our compliance page
Achieving Excellence in Fund Raising, 2e - Feb 2003
Achieving Post-Merger Success - Feb 2004
Achieving Service Excellence: Strategies for Healthcare - 2002
Achieving Success Through Community Leadership - Oct 2001
Advances in Health Care Organization Theory - Feb 2003
AHA Guide - the top guide to companies, hospitals, leaders, current edition
AHA Hospital Statistics: Analysis & Comparison of Hospital Trends - AHA, current edition
Allies or Adversaries: Revitalizing the Medical Staff Organization - Jul 2004
Almanac of Hospital Financial & Operating Indicators - Ingenix, current annual edition
(The) Architecture of Medical Imaging - Jun 2006
Assisted Living Administration: Knowledge Base, 2e - Aug 2004
(The) Baptist Health Care Journey to Excellence: Creating a Culture - Nov 2004
Benchmarking Books - benchmarking data, go here, or for processes, go here
Better CEO-Board Relations - AHA, Feb 2007
Better Communication for Better Care: Physician-Administrator Collaboration - Feb 2005
Beyond Persuasion: Healthcare Manager's Guide to Strategic Communication - ACHE, 2001
(A) Bias for Action: How Effective Managers Harness - May 2004
Bioterrorism in Medical & Healthcare Administration - Jul 2004
(The) Birth of the Texas Medical Center - Dec 2004
Boards That Make a Difference, 3e - Feb 2006
Branding Health Services: Defining Yourself in the Marketplace - 2000
Building a Better Delivery System - Jun 2005
Building Codes Illustrated for Healthcare Facilities - Apr 2007
Building Type Basics for Healthcare Facilities - May 2008
(The) Business of Healthcare Innovation - Oct 2005
By the Numbers: Findings of a Benchmarking Study - AHA, May 2005
Changing the US Health System, 3e - Feb 2007
Collaborate for Success: Engaging Physicians, Nurses & Executives - ACHE, Sep 2006
Coming of Age: The 75-Year History of the ACHE - Apr 2008
Community-Based Health Organizations - Jan 2005
Community-Based Participatory Research for Health - Nov 2002
Community Health Education & Promotion, 2e - 2004
Community Organizing & Community Building for Health, 2e - Dec 2004
Community Preparedness & Response to Terrorism - Dec 2004
Comparative Guide to American Hospitals - up-to-date editions
Competitive Business Strategy for Teaching Hospitals - 2000
(The) Complete Guide to Mergers & Acquisitions, 2e - Aug 2007
Conducting a Successful Annual Giving Program - 2001
Conducting a Successful Capital Campaign, 2e - 1999
Conducting a Successful Development Services Program - 2001
Conducting a Successful Fundraising Program - 2001
Conducting a Successful Major Gifts & Planned Giving Program - 2002
Connecting with the New Healthcare Consumer: Defining Your Strategy - 2001
Consumer-Directed Healthcare & Its Implications for Providers - ACHE, May 2005
Consumer-Driven Healthcare: for Providers, Players & Policy-Makers - 2004
Contracting in a Managed Care Environment: Market-Based Approaches - 2002
Contracts for Healthcare Executives, 4e - 2002
(The) Corporate Transformation of Health Care - Oct 2004
Create a Positive Health Care Workplace - AHA, Jun 2005
Creating & Implementing Your Strategic Plan, 2e - Oct 2004
Credibility: How Leaders Gain & Lose It - Jan 2003
Crisis Communications: Case Studies in Healthcare Image Restoration - Oct 2006
Crisis Communications in Healthcare: Managing Difficult Times Effectively - 2002
Crisis Leadership: Planning for the Unthinkable - Apr 2003
Critical Condition: How Health Care Became Big Business - Oct 2005
Coverage Matters: Insurance & Health Care - IOM, 2001
Curing U.S. Healthcare - pdf download document, Jan 2008
Decision Analysis for Healthcare Managers - ACHE, Nov 2006
Decision Making for Improved Performance - May 2004
Delivering Health Care in America: A Systems Approach, 4e - Sep 2007
Design Details for Health: Making the Most of Interior Design - Nov 1999
Design That Cares: Planning Health Facilities for Patients & Visitors, 2e - 2001
Developing & Managing an Ambulatory Surgery Center - MGMA, 2000
Digital Medicine: Implications for Healthcare Leaders - 2003
Directory of Healthcare Recruiters - updated!
Directory of Hospital Personnel - most current edition
Economics Books - for healthcare economics, see our economics page
(The) Effective Health Care Supervisor, 6e - Sept 2006
Effective Management of Long-Term Care Facilities - Sep 2004
Encouraging the Heart: A Leader's Guide to Rewarding & Recognizing Others - 2003
Encyclopedia of Health Care Management - Oct 2003
Emerging Theories in Health Promotion Practice & Research - Jan 2002
(The) Essential Guide to Managing Consultants: Strategies for Healthcare Leaders - Aug 2002
Essential Readings in Health Policy & Law - Aug 2008
Essentials of Health Care Marketing, 2e - Feb 2006
Essentials of Health Policy & Law - Mar 2007
Essentials of Health Services, 3e - Jul 2005
Essentials of Managed Health Care, 5e - Feb 2007
Essentials of Public Health Management - Sep 2004
Essentials of the US Health Care System - Oct 2004
Evaluating the Healthcare System: Effectiveness, Efficiency & Equity, 3e - 2004
Evaluating the Performance of the Hospital CEO, 3e - ACHE, Dec 2003
Everyday Excellence: Creating a Better Workplace - ASQ, Sep 2005
(The) Excellent Board II: Practical Solutions for Health Care Trustees & CEOs - Feb 2008
Exceptional Leadership: 16 Critical Competencies for Health Executives - ACHE, Mar 2006
Executive Compensation: Guidelines for Healthcare Leaders & Trustees - 2002
(The) Executive Guide to Improvement & Change - ASQ, Mar 2003
(The) Executive's Guide to Electronic Health Records - ACHE, Feb 2007
Extraordinary Board Leadership - 2001
Facilities Planning, 3e - Oct 2002
False Alarm: Greatest Threat to Social Security & Medicare - Aug 2003
(The) First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at all Levels - Sep 2003
Focused Operations Management for Health Services Organizations - Jun 2006
Followership: Practical Guide for Aligning Leaders & Followers - Nov 2003
Food Service Manual for Health Care Institutions, 3e - Nov 2004
From Management to Leadership: Interpersonal Skills for Success in Health Care, 2e - 2005
From the Ground Up: Marketing & Public Relations in a New Healthcare Facility - Jul 2004
Frontiers in Health Policy Research, 7e - Sep 2004
Fundamentals of Statistics in Health Administration - Jul 2005
Fundraising Basics: A Complete Guide, 2e - 2004
FutureScan: Healthcare Trends & Implications, 2008-2013 - AHA, ACHE, 2008
Getting to Great: Principles of Health Care Organization Governance - 2002
Global Health Leadership & Management - Apr 2005
Going Lean: Busting Barriers to Patient Flow - ACHE, Nov 2007
(The) Governance Factor: 33 Keys to Success in Healthcare - Nov 2003
Governance for Health Care Providers: The Call to Leadership - Dec 2008
Governance of Teaching Hospitals: Turmoil at Penn & Hopkins - Dec 2003
Grant Application Writer's Handbook, 4e - Sep 2004
Guidelines for Design & Construction of Health Care Facilities - AIA, Aug 2006
Haimann's Healthcare Management, 8e - ACHE, Aug 2006
Handbook of Home Health Care Administration, 4e - 2005
Handbook of Mental Health Administration & Management - Nov 2002
Hardwiring Excellence - Mar 2004
Health & Health Care 2010: The Forecast, The Challenge, 2e - Nov 2003
Health & Social Justice: Politics, Ideology, & Inequity - Oct 2003
Healthcare Administration: Planning, Implementing, Managing Systems, 4e - 2004
Health Care Delivery in the United States, 9e - Jun 2008
Health Care Executive Profiles - Mar 2005
(The) Healthcare Executive's Guide to Allocating Capital - ACHE, Jun 2007
Healthcare Facility Planning: Thinking Strategically - Dec 2005
(The) Health Care Industry: A Primer for Board Members - Oct 2003
Health Care in the New Millennium: Vision, Values, Leaders - 2002
Health Care Management - Aug 2006
Health Care Management: Organization Design & Behavior, 5e - Dec 2005
Health Care Market Strategy: From Planning to Action, 3e - Dec 2003
Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions: Physician Practices - 2002
(The) Health Care Mess: How We Got Into It - Sep 2005
Health Care Policy & Politics: A to Z, 2e - Nov 2003
Healthcare Operations Management - ACHE, Jun 2008
Health Care Operations Management: Quantitative Approach - Aug 2007
Health Care Politics & Policy in America, 3e - Apr 2006
Health Care Providers Government Relations Handbook - Oct 2004
Healthcare Spaces - 4 editions, Jul 2008
Healthcare Strategic Planning, 2e - Apr 2005
Healthcare Strategy for Uncertain Times - 2000
Health Care Systems in Transition - 1999
Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization & Delivery, 6e - Apr 2008
(The) Health Care Value Chain - Mar 2002
Health Communication - Dec 2005
Health Economics: Fundamentals & Flow of Funds, 2e - Jun 2003
Health Insurance - ACHE, Jan 2008
Health Insurance is a Family Matter - IOM, 2002
Health Networks: Can They Be the Solution? - May 2001
Health Organizations: Theory, Behavior & Development - Feb 2008
Health Policy Books - for more health policy resources, see our policy page
Health Policy Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach - Sep 2007
Health Policy: Crisis & Reform in the US, 4e - Feb 2004
Health Policy Issues: An Economic Perspective, 4e - Jul 2007
Health Policymaking in the United States, 4e - Dec 2005
Health Program Planning & Evaluation: Approach for Community Health - Sep 2004
Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America - Mar 2005
Health Services Management: Readings, Cases & Commentary, 9e - Aug 2008
Health Services Marketing: A Practitioner's Guide - Nov 2007
Health Services Planning, 2e - Dec 2003
Health Services Research Methods, 2e - Nov 2007
Healthy, Wealthy, & Fair: Health Care & the Good Society - Sep 2007
(The) Heart of Change: How People Change Their Organizations - Aug 2002
(The) Heart of Change: Tools & Tactics for Leading Change - Nov 2005
Hidden Costs, Value Lost: Uninsurance in America - IOM, 2003
(The) High Performance Board: Principles of Non-Profit Organizational Governance - 2002
HMO / PPO Directory - current edition
Hospital & Healthcare Facility Design, 2e - 2002
Hospital-Based Emergency Care: At the Breaking Point - Jan 2007
Hospital Builders - Jul 2003
Hospitalists: Guide to Building & Sustaining a Successful Program - ACHE, Jan 2008
Hospital Statistics: Analysis & Comparison of Hospital Trends - AHA, current edition
Hospitals: What They Are & How They Work, 3e - Jan 2006
If Disney Ran Your Hospital: Things You Would Do Differently - May 2004
Impact Marketing: Optimizing Value & Return on Investment - Aug 2004
Improve Your Competitive Strategy: Guide for Healthcare Executive - 2002
Improving Healthcare with Better Building Design - ACHE, Dec 2005
(An) Industry in Evolution, 4e - CenterWatch, Jun 2003
Innovation-Driven Health Care: 36 Key Concepts for Transformation - Feb 2007
Institutional Review Board: Management & Function - 2005
Institutional Review Board: Member Handbook, 2e - Nov 2006
Integrating Complementary Medicine into Health Systems - 2001
International Public Health, 2e - Jan 2006
Introduction to Health Care Management - Feb 2007
Introduction to Health Services, 7e - Oct 2007
Introduction to Public Health, 2e - Sep 2005
Introduction to US Health Care - Nov 2006
Insuring America's Health: Principles & Recommendations - IOM, 2004
Launching a Healthcare Capital Project: What Every Executive Should Know - 2004
Leaders & Healthcare Organizational Change - 2001
Leading Others, Managing Yourself - ACHE, Nov 2004
Leadership Challenge, 4e - Aug 2007
(The) Leadership Challenge Workshop: Facilitator's Guide - Sep 2005
Leadership in Healthcare: Values at the Top - 2000
Leadership Practices Inventory, 3e, Facilitator Package - 2003
Leadership's Deeper Dimensions - ACHE, Dec 2005
Leading Transformational Change: Physician-Executive Partnership - Oct 2001
Leading Your Healthcare Organization to Excellence: Using the Baldrige Criteria - Dec 2004
Long-Term Care: Managing Across the Continuum, 2e - Sep 2004
Managed Care Glossary -
Managed Care: What It Is & How It Works, 3e - Nov 2008
(The) Managed Health Care Handbook, 4e - 2001
Management of Hospitals & Health Services, 3e - May 2003
Management Mistakes in Healthcare - Dec 2004
Management Principles for Health Professionals, 5e - Aug 2007
Managerial Epidemiology for Health Care Organizations, 2e - Apr 2005
Managerial Epidemiology: Practice, Methods, Concepts - Mar 2005
Managing a Public Speaker Bureau - Aug 2004
Managing for Success in Health Care - Oct 2006
Managing Health Care Business Strategy - May 2008
Managing Health Education & Promotion Programs: Leadership Skills, 2e - Dec 2006
Managing Health Programs & Projects - Jul 2004
Managing Health Services Organizations & Systems, 5e - Aug 2008
Managing Long-Term Care - Jul 2004
M&A Integration: A Framework for Executives & Managers - 2002
(The) M&A Transition Guide: 10-Step Roadmap for Workforce Integration - Mar 2001
Market Driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses - 1999
(A) Marketer's Guide to Brand Strategy - HCPro, Mar 2008
Marketing by the Numbers: Study Findings - AHA, 2005
Marketing Health Services - ACHE, Dec 2004
Marketing Matters: A Guide for Healthcare Executives - ACHE, Jun 2007
Marketing Tools for Healthcare Executives, 2e - Jul 2005
Marketing Your Clinical Practice: Ethically, Effectively, Economically, 3e - 2004
Mastering the Negotiation Process: Guide for the Healthcare Executive - 2002
Masterpieces in Health Care Leadership: Best Practices - May 2007
(The) Mediating Effects of Public Opinion on Public Policy: Health Care - Jul 2004
Medical Laboratory Management - always current
Medicare Prospective Payment & the Shaping of US Health Care - Nov 2006
Mergers of Teaching Hospitals: Boston, New York & N. California - 2001
Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much - May 2006
(The) Nation's Health, 7e - Mar 2003
News for a Change: Guide to Working with the Media - 1999
No Margin, No Mission: Quest for Ethical Excellence - Aug 2003
Nursing Home Administration, 5e - Dec 2007
Oncology Services Administration - always current
Optimize Your Healthcare Supply Chain Performance - ACHE, Mar 2007
Organizational Behavior, Theory & Design in Health Care, 2e - Nov 2008
Outside the Hospital: Delivery of Health Care in Non-Hospital Settings - Sep 2008
Oxymorons: The Myth of a US Health Care System - 2001
Physician Recruitment & Employment, 2e - Dec 2006
Physician Recruitment, Retention and Separation - AMA, Aug 2002
Physician Relations Today: A Model for Growth - Sep 2004
Planning, Implementing & Evaluating Health Promotion Programs, 5e - Mar 2008
Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac - newest edition
(The) Politics of Health Legislation: An Economic Perspective, 3e - ACHE, May 2006
(The) Politics of Public Health in the United States - Nov 2004
(The) Portable Health Administration (MHA) - Dec 2003
Positive Leadership in Health Care - ACPE, May 2005
(The) Power of Clinical & Financial Metrics: Success in Your Hospital - ACHE, Mar 2005
Pricing the Priceless: A Health Care Conundrum - Sep 2004
(The) Primary Care-Market Share Connection: Achieve Competitive Advantage - ACHE, Mar 2007
Principles of Health Care Management: Compliance, Consumerism, Accountability - Jun 2005
Problems & Cases in Healthcare Marketing - Jan 2004
Public Health Administration: Principles for Population-Based Management, 2e - Apr 2007
Public Health Business Planning: A Practical Guide - Jul 2008
Public Health for the 21st Century: The Prepared Leader - Sep 2005
Public Health Leadership: Putting Principles into Practice - Mar 2003
Public Health Leadership & Management - 2001
Public Health Management of Disasters: The Practice Guide, 2e - Mar 2005
Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health - Mar 2005
Quantitative Analysis for Management, 9e - Feb 2005
Quantitative Methods in Health Care Management - Jul 2005
(The) Quantum Leader - Mar 2005
Quantum Leadership: A Resource for Healthcare Innovation, 2e - Feb 2007
Quantum Leadership: A Textbook of New Leadership - 2003
Radiology Administration - always current & up-to-date
(The) Radiology Manager's Handbook - HCPro, May 2006
Raising the Bar: Best Practices for Healthcare Strategic Planning - AHA, Jan 2007
Redefining Health Care - May 2006
Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice & Leadership, 3e - 2003
Reinventing Centers of Excellence: Strategies for Specialty Services - Sep 2002
Reinventing Public Health - Oct 2005
Reinventing the Patient Experience: Strategies for Hospital Leaders - ACHE, Sep 2007
Reinventing Your Board, Revised - Feb 2006
Relationship Fundraising: Business of Raising Money, 2e - Jul 2002
Results-Oriented Strategic Planning - Aug 2002
Scheduling Strategies for Ambulatory Surgery Centers - Mar 2005
Service Line Execution 2.0: Advanced Strategies for Progressive Hospitals - Jan 2008
Seven Strategies Improve your Bottom Line: Healthcare Executive Guide - 2001
(A) Shared Destiny: Community Effects of Uninsurance - Apr 2003
Shredding the Social Contract: Privatization of Medicare - Mar 2006
Solving the Health Care Problem: Why the U.S. Has Failed - Aug 2006
Specialty Care in the Era of Managed Care - Sep 2005
(The) Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health - Aug 2005
Steps on the Road to Medicare: Why Saskatchewan Led the Way - Apr 2003
Stop Managing Costs: Designing Around Core Business Systems - ASQ, 1999
Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations, 5e - Oct 2007
Strategic Management of the Health Care Supply Chain - Feb 2006
Strategic Marketing For Health Care Organizations - Apr 2008
Strategic Planning for Public & Nonprofit Organizations - Sep 2004
Strategies for the New Health Care Marketplace - 2001
(The) Strategy-Focused Organization - 2000
Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes - Feb 2004
Statistics - for more statistics books, see our CQI and Quality page
Streamlining Health Care Operations - 2001
Strengthening Ethical Wisdom - AHA, Jul 2007
Superior Productivity in Health Care Organizations - Oct 2003
Sustainable Healthcare Architecture - Nov 2007
Terrorism & Disaster Management: Preparing Leaders - Oct 2004
Terrorism & Public Health: A Balanced Approach - Nov 2006
Thinking Forward: Six Strategies for Highly Successful Organizations - Dec 2003
Transforming Health Care Management: Integrating Technology Strategies - Feb 2008
Trials to Triumphs: Perspectives from Successful Healthcare Leaders - 2001
(The) Trustee Handbook for Health Care Governance, 2e - Sep 2001
(The) Trust Crisis in Healthcare - Sep 2006
(The) Trust Prescription for Healthcare: Building a Reputation - ACHE, Mar 2005
(The) Truth About Health Care: Why Reform Is Not Working in America - Mar 2008
Uncertain Times: Kenneth Arrow & the Changing Economics of Health Care - Jan 2004
Understanding the US Health Services System, 3e - Dec 2006
Uninsured in America: In the Land of Opportunity - Oct 2006
(The) US Health Care Delivery System: Fundamental Facts, Definitions & Statistics - Jun 2006
Welcome to the Board: Orientation for the New Health Care Trustee - 2002
(The) Well-Managed Healthcare Organization, 6e - Sep 2006
Where Have We Failed? A Systemic Analysis - Oct 2002
Winning in the Women's Health Care Marketplace - 2000
Winning the Talent War: Ensuring Effective Leadership in Healthcare - 2002
(The) Wisdom of Top Health Care CEOs: Success in Medical Management - Dec 2003
Women & Leadership in Health Care - 1999
Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System - Feb 2005
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