Hospital Administration and Management A Comprehensive Guide

This book focuses on hospital administration and management. Hospital Administration and Management is a complex and challenging task. Hospital administrators and managers at all levels have to spend significant amounts of time on communication, problem solving, decision making, capacity building and cost containment. This book comprises of four sections such as hospital administration and management, hospital organization and services, hospital support services, and hospital policies and human element of healthcare, which is further divided into 29 chapters. Its include hospital administration, management principles, functions of management, healthcare organization, hospital committees, hospital medical records department, nursing services, biomedical engineering services, biomedical waste management, material management wing, pharmacy services, finance department, security wing, housekeeping department, central sterilization and supply department, human element in health care, and career as hospital administrator. This book has been elaborated with reference to current techniques and practice of hospital administration and management so as to make the text more easily comprehensible to all hospital managers, administrators and students concerned. This book is also helpful to readers for increasing efficiency and effectiveness in day-to-day running of their organizations.