The Health Care Manager's Legal Guide provides healthcare management students and professionals with a one-of-a-kind resource on successfully negotiating the legal pitfalls across healthcare's complex institutional and commercial landscape. Healthcare managers today must tread carefully as never before to avoid legal issues. Grounded in the expert guidance of healthcare managers, health administration educators, and attorneys, The Health Care Manager's Legal Guide covers the numerous legal obstacles managers confront on a daily basis, from human resources and employee and patient privacy to disciplinary action and union organizing. The Health Care Manager's Legal Guide provides practical information on avoiding these and other common legal hazards encountered when managing a healthcare workforce. Using straightforward language, this book serves as an essential resource for aspiring and working healthcare managers. The Health Care Manager's Legal Guide features * Practical legal guidance presented in easy-to-understand terms * A minimum of "legalese" * A review of the most important laws directly affecting healthcare managers * Study and discussion questions in every chapter