Manisha Saxena MA, MBA, PhD is Professor and Principal, Department of Hospital Management, Deccan School of Management, Hyderabad, which is affiliated to Osmania University. She obtained her BSW from PG College of Social Work, Hyderabad, and MA, MPhil and PhD from School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad. She is a postgraduate in management (MBA) and an accredited management teacher of AIMA. She has worked with the Regional Training Centre of Family Planning Association of India and Sivananda Rehabilitation Home for destitute leprosy patients. She has been associated with Department of Hospital Management, Deccan School of Management, since 1999. She has written another CBS book Disability and Rehabilitation Among Leprosy And Non-Leprosy Patients.
<p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; letter-spacing: 0.7px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Traditionally hospital management has grown as an offshoot of general management, though hospital as an organization is uniquely different from the other services, necessitating a novel approach in its management. Hospital management has evolved as a specialized management rather than that of medicine as was envisaged earlier, increasingly applying modern manage- ment concepts like balanced score card to that of economic value addition.</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; letter-spacing: 0.7px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It will serve as a valuable textbook for all the students of hospital/healthcare management, and a useful handbook/reference for academicians and practising managers as it fills the caveat for a holistic book on hospital management covering various perspectives like hospital planning, operations, IT, and quality, besides the basics of hospital management. All the stakeholders in the healthcare and hospital management sector, particularly nursing graduates, owners of nursing homes, practising hospital managers, and all those who are interested in the working of hospitals, will immensely benefit from the book.</span></p>
