The Health Care Manager's Legal Guide

The Health Care Manager's Legal Guide provides guidance for the healthcare manager who must manage day-to-day affairs in an environment filled with potential legal obstacles and pitfalls. Using a straightforward, accessible style, this book covers issues related to recruiting, interviewing, and reference checking; wage and salary; patient and employee privacy and confidentiality; the Family and Medical Leave Act; sexual harassment and other disciplinary matters; governing management behavior during union organizing; and many more topics the healthcare manager might encounter during the everyday operations of healthcare services.Ideal for practicing and aspiring first-line and middle managers, The Health Care Manager's Legal Guide addresses legal issues in everyday language with very little legalese. The book focuses only on aspects of laws that impact the manager’s areas of involvement and provides practical guidance that will help keep the manager on the right side of the law while getting the job done.