Leadership for Health Professionals: Theory, Skills, and Applications by Gerald

Description: Leadership for Health Professionals: Theory, Skills, and Applications by Gerald R. Ledlow, Michele Bosworth, Thomas Maryon Estimated delivery 4-14 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Leadership for Health Professionals: Theory, Skills, and Applications, Fourth Edition is the first textbook of its kind to apply classical knowledge of leadership theory and time-honored best practices of industry leaders to a health organization context. This comprehensive and well-organized text is grounded in real-world applications of theoretical concepts, and focuses on practical examples of leadership in actual healthcare scenarios. Themes such as organizational culture, cultural competency, ethical frameworks and moral practice, scientific methodology, and leader competencies are woven through the entire text.The authors perspective focuses on the most pertinent leadership content, theories, models, principles, and strategies that produce results in the health industry. The authors-now with the updated fourth edition and new coauthors who bring physician practice, nursing practice, and executive health insurance practice into the text-have put many of these theories and models into practice during the course of successful practitioner careers. With more than 80 years of combined experience leading people in complex organizations, the authors hope to impart that experience to the next generation of health leaders in a way that is both meaningful and useful to scholars and practicing health professionals. Author Biography Dr. Gerald (Jerry) R. Ledlow, as a board-certified healthcare executive and Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, has led team members and managed resources in health organizations for more than 29years, including 15 years as a practitioner and over 14years as an academically based teacher–scholar. He has successfully held a variety of positions: (1) executive-level positions in corporate and military health systems in the areas of clinical operations, managed care, supply chain and logistics, information systems, and facility management; (2) management positions in health services, medical materials, and the supply chain; and (3) various academic leadership positions as the director of doctoral programs at two universities, director of academic affairs, director of student services, and director of the center for survey research and health information, as well as holding tenured faculty positions at two doctoral research universities. Dr. Ledlow earned his PhD in organizational leadership from the University of Oklahoma, a master of health administration degree from Baylor University, and a bachelor of arts degree in economics from the Virginia Military Institute. He has heldtenured graduate faculty positions at Central Michigan University and Georgia Southen University and is currently Professor and Chair of the Healthcare Policy, Economics, and Management Department in the School of Community and Rural Health at the University of Texas Health Science Center Northeast in Tyler, Texas.Dr. Ledlow has taught 24 different graduate-level courses, including teaching doctoral- and masters-level students in the topic of health leadership. "Dr. Jerry" (as his students call him) has made presentations on health-related topics and health leadership models and applications across the globe; he has presented to a myriad of audiences internationally, nationally, and locally. He has published in many venues (e.g., journals, book chapters) and has been author, contributing author, editor, and reviewer for several books.Dr. Ledlow is married to his beautiful wife, Silke, and has three fantastic daughters, Sarah, Rebecca, and Miriam. He is a regional editor for the Journal of Global Business and Technology, is on several publication review teams, and participates as a member of various task forces and committees internationally, nationally, and at the state level. Years ago, Dr. Jerry was a National Registry-certified emergency management technician as a volunteer and was deployed to combat zones as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps.He received the Federal Sector Managed Care Executive of the Year Award in 1998 and the American College of Healthcare Executives Regents Award in 1997 and in 2003. His interests are health industry oriented and focus on the areas of leadership, management, decision sciences, supply chain and logistics, community preparedness for terrorism and disasters, socioeconomic constructs of health and community health status, and any project that has the potential to improve the health of communities through moral, effective, efficient, and efficacious health leadership and management practices. Dr. Michele Bosworth earned her Medical Doctorate at West Virginia School of Medicine in Morgantown, West Virginia. After medical school, she completed her Family Medicine Residency Training at Mountain Area Health Education Center in Asheville, North Carolina. Dr. Bosworth attributes much of her founding passion for the delivery of comprehensive, high quality primary care to the extraordinary faculty and staff she had the honor to be trained under during her residency training. During her last year of residency, she was asked to develop and 23operate MAHECs first satellite clinic upon graduation. As such, Dr. Bosworth served as the founding medical director for MAHECs Cane Creek Family Health Center in Fairview, North Carolina where she practiced full-spectrum family medicine whilst maintaining a teach faculty presence in the MAHEC Family Medicine Residency Program. After two years, two dogs, and two children came into her and her husband Scotts life, Dr. Bosworth moved to Tyler, Texas to join the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tylers(UTHSCT) Family Medicine Residency Program as core faculty and within a month became the programs clinic director. With a resolve for safety, standardization, behavioral health integration, and delivery of the highest quality of care, Dr. Bosworth progressed into Co-Chief Medical Information Officer, decidedly earning a second board certification in clinical informatics. Under her leadership as CMIO or Co-CMIO, she led various EHR implementations, upgrades, and optimization initiatives such as standardization of medication reconciliation, referral management, and Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE). Dr. Bosworth developed, deployed, and led the Clinical Informatics Governance and authored associated policies and procedures necessitating optimal and meaningful use of the EHR. Lastly, regulatory accomplishments included maximized performance with Meaningful Use, MIPS, and achieving HIMSS Level 6.Subsequently, Dr. Bosworth became UTHSCTs first Chief Quality and Patient Safety Officer. In this roles she led her organizations progressive development of its safety culture, developed improvement capability at all levels of the organization through a Clinical Safety & Effectiveness training program based in principles of Lean Six Sigma, and maximized performance in multiple regulatory and value-based programmatic initiatives. Additionally, she created, implemented, and led the GME (Graduate Medical Education) quality and safety 24initiatives and aligned resident & faculty physician quality improvement project with organizational population health initiatives.Subsequently, she asked to be the founding Executive Director of The Center for Population Health, Analytics, and Quality Advancement in The School of Rural and Community Health. While there she achieved maximum financial performance of the 1115 Waiver DSRIP program, oversaw externally funded programs Lifestyle Change Programs, the Area health Education Center, and Community Health Care Worker training program.Dr. Bosworth used her Lean Six Sigma Green Belt skillset, experience as a previous Chief Quality Officer and expertise in clinical informatics to successfully perform within the 1115 Waiver DSRIP program. Working with community partners on 43 measures in chronic disease, maternal and fetal safety, dental, behavioral health, and preventive care Dr. Bosworth developed,deployed, and oversaw a Population Health Team consisting of community health workers, medical assistants, and patient service coordinators lead by a Registered Nurse. Dr. Bosworth implemented food insecurity screening in all the primary care clinics, co-developed the Partners in Health program to connect patients with the East Texas Food Bank, and facilitated the deployment of an emergency food box program.Dr. Bosworth has received the UTHSCT Will Avery Family Medicine Educator of the Year award, various poster and quality project recognitions, and an award from the Environmental Protection Agency for excellent management of a mobile asthma clinic. Currently, Dr. Bosworth serves as Principal for Health Management Associates (HMA), an independent, national research and consulting firm specializing in publicly funded healthcare andhuman services policy, programs, financing, and evaluation that serves government, public and private providers, health systems, health plans, community-based organizations, institutional 25investors, foundations, and associations. At HMA, Dr. Bosworth focuses on population health with assisting the transition to value-based care, clinical informatics solutions to improving clinical operations, quality improvement, and leadership coaching.Beyond her passion to improve healthcare, Dr. Bosworth loves to exercise, play with their 4 dogs, cheering for her kids on the soccer pitch, and exploring national parks. She and her family live in Lindale, TX. Dr. Thomas Maryon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Healthcare Policy, Economics and Management at The University of Texas at Tyler - Health Science Center. Prior to joining the University of Texas at Tyler, Dr. Maryon served as vice president of clinical programs at Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC). HCSC is the largest customer-owned health insurer in the United States with over 17 million members operating Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. With more than 40 years of experience in the healthcare sector starting with hands on clinical care delivery as a registered nurse to senior level leadership positions in the managed care industry, with his broad background, he now strives to educate and develop emerging healthcare leaders to significantly impact and improve the outcomes of healthcare delivery today and into the future. Dr. Maryon received both a doctorate in health administration and a masters in healthadministration from Central Michigan University. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Wayne State University and is a graduate of the Henry Ford Hospital School of Nursing in Detroit. Dr. Maryon serves in The Herbert & Grace Dow College of Health Professions at Central 26 Details ISBN 128425478X ISBN-13 9781284254785 Title Leadership for Health Professionals: Theory, Skills, and Applications Author Gerald R. Ledlow, Michele Bosworth, Thomas Maryon Format Paperback Year 2023 Pages 470 Edition 4th Publisher Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc GE_Item_ID:157989257; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. 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