Synopsis

With the increasing demand for hospitals, the healthcare industry has become one of the prime industries for capital investment in India. In 1980s, there were private clinics, small nursing homes, private hospitals, government, hospitals, and public health centers. Now, the trend has changed, and the corporate hospitals started coming up with the state-of-the-art medical equipments and multispecialty services to the patients. Some of the government hospitals attached to the medical colleges are also providing medical facilities to the patients on payment at par with the corporate hospitals.<br><br>Secondly, the awareness of the medical treatment among the public has increased manifolds through the internet, books, magazines, etc. As there is an increase of healthcare providers, the ancillary services and industries are also growing in India. Some of them are nursing schoolsand colleges, paramedical courses medical colleges, hospital administration courses, pharmaceutical companies, etc.<br><br>Because of increase in multispecialty hospitals, the demand for hospital administrators is also equally growing. It is a specialized course, which deals with the administration of hospitals. Since the hospitals are dealing with human lives, the administrators and the other medical, paramedical, and supportive staff require a special talent, training, competency, qualification and experience for running a hospital efficiently and effectively.<br><br>This book will give more practical knowledge to the readers about the functioning of the hospital, sensitive issues in hospitals, duties and responsibility of each and every category of employees in hospitals, patient rights and responsibilities, guidelines for accreditation, doctors do’s and don’ts, and hospital systems and procedures, which are commonly followed.