If your ASC is like most, you run a lean-and-mean organization with tight administrative staffing. That’s why it’s so important to have the human resources (HR) skills to hire and retain high-quality, efficient staff members.
When you already have too much to do, it’s a tall order to manage your staff and take on all the attendant HR duties. Let your HR responsibilities fall by the wayside and your non-compliance may very well come back to bite you in a lawsuit or accreditation survey—with dire consequences. So what’s the solution?
A plain-English guide to employment responsibilities for busy ASC administrators, turn to Human Resources for ASCs: Managing Your Most Valuable Assets, a combination roadmap and toolkit. You’ll find all the no-nonsense, practical, ASC-specific advice and tools you need to run an effective HR program in this easy-to-implement book and CD-ROM set.
Written by a healthcare veteran with years of experience as an ASC administrator, this new manual and its companion CD-ROM will provide you with the structure and regulatory information for a fully compliant and successful HR program, without the excess jargon.
Run a more efficient business and minimize costly turnover
Human Resources for ASCs is more than just a primer on HR laws and regulations. This comprehensive resource provides the information and tools you need to develop and maintain an effective HR program at your facility, including sample policies, procedures, forms, and checklists, which are also provided on an easily adapted CD-ROM.
Advice and guidance on the issues that matter most
Human Resources for ASCs will guide ASC administrators through the trickiest HR issues, from hiring to developing realistic personnel budgets and everything in between. You’ll benefit from concise, how-to advice on hot HR issues, including
- effective leadership and management
- hiring the best employees
- efficient and productive employee evaluations
- anti-discrimination regulations
- wage and salary issues
- developing efficient policies
- budgeting challenges related to HR issues
Table of Contents
- Prologue: Work force trends in modern healthcare
- Chapter 1: Leadership, management, and supervision
- Leadership
- Management
- Supervision
- Governance and personnel management
- Additional resources
- Chapter 2: Coping with the regulatory environment
- A word about state and local governments
- Expanded employee protections
- Wage and hour
- Gender issues and sexual harassment
- Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
- Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA)
- Other anti-discrimination laws
- Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970
- Additional resources
- Chapter 3: Budgeting, compensation, and benefits
- Budget models
- Flexible budgets
- Budgeting as a team effort
- Making smart compensation decisions
- Making smart benefits decisions
- When to consult a professional
- Additional resources
- Chapter 4: Day-to-day management from hiring to evaluations
- Want ads
- Interviewing
- Personality testing
- Checking references
- Checking licenses and education
- Making a job offer
- A few words about developing policies and procedures
- Employee evaluations
- Additional resources
- Chapter 5: The employee handbook
- Preparing to write
- Questions to ask before writing
- Constructing the handbook
- Getting organized
- Thinking through the issues
- Common mistakes
- Writing
- Additional resources
With a copy of Human Resources for ASCs you’ll benefit from
no-nonsense, practical advice on running an HR program
expert guidance on the federal regulatory maze that surrounds HR issues
advice on when to seek legal advice on state-specific requirements
real-life case studies on common HR situations
numerous sample policies and procedures, checklists, letters, and forms conveniently located on an easily modifiable CD-ROM
complete references to further information, including Web sites and books, located at the end of each chapter
We know your time is valuable and we’ve designed this book with you in mind. You can read it from cover-to-cover, or use it as a handy, “as needed” reference guide. With Human Resources for ASCs, you can rest assured you have effective, regulation-compliant HR policies and procedures in place.
About the Author
Tom Ealey, MA, CPA, has almost three decades of experience working in healthcare administration as an administrator, certified public accountant, management consultant, seminar leader, writer, and expert witness. His human resources experience has included being a front-line administrator, writing and rewriting employee handbooks, developing policies and procedures, developing and revising fringe benefit plans, developing personnel budgets, investigating problem situations, representing providers at regulatory audits, and providing training in such areas as compliance with the Occupational Safety & Health Administration and supervisory skills.
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