Value Based Health Care (PDF)

Value-Based Health Care

Linking Finance and Quality

Yosef D. Dlugacz

Value-Based Health Care?

Value-Based Health Care?concisely explains the mandate to
successfully link health care quality and finance and describes the
tools to implement strategies for organizational success. Yosef
Dlugacz provides many illustrative real-world examples of process
and outcomes of the value-based approach, taken from a wide range
of health care settings. Perfect for students preparing to enter
health care management or for practicing health care leaders and
professionals, this book is a vital guide to approaches that ensure
the health of patients and health care organizations alike.

Praise for Value-Based Health Care

"Value-Based Health Care provides leaders and quality experts
with the much needed roadmap for linking cost and quality. This
book will help your organization thrive in today's
ultra-competitive environment."

--Patrice L. Spath, health care quality specialist and author
of Leading Your Health Care Organization to Excellence and Error
Reduction in Health Care: A Systems Approach to Improving Patient
Safety

"Yosef Dlugacz provides an essential overview of how staff,
administrators, and clinicians can create not just a culture but a
gestalt of quality health care delivery. . . .given the national
debate over access, cost, and quality, the book could not be more
timely."

--Theodore J. Joyce, PhD, professor of economics and finance,
academic director of the Baruch/Mt. Sinai MBA Program in Health
Care Administration, and research associate, National Bureau of
Economic Research

"Dr. Dlugacz's?case studies and action plans provide great
insights and workable solutions to provide safe and effective
patient care. It is a welcome resource as we sit on the?advent of
health reform."

--Kathy Ciccone, executive director, Quality Institute of the
Healthcare Association of New York State