Healthcare Delivery in the U.S.A.

Margaret F. Schulte, DBA, FACHE is immediate past President & CEO of the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME), the official accrediting body for over 100 graduate programs in healthcare management in the US and Canada. Prior to this role, she served on the faculty of the Northwestern University Masters of Science in Medical Informatics program in Chicago, IL and was Editor of Frontiers in Health Services Management, a publication of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Earlier, she served as Vice President of Education for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and as Director of Education for the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Previous positions included service as co-director of the Graduate Program in Healthcare Administration at Mercer University in Atlanta, GA and as Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Healthcare Administration at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, MI. Dr. Schulte holds a Doctorate in Business Administration from Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL and a Masters in Business Administration from Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio and is an Emeritus Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. She is the author of “Healthcare Delivery in the U.S.A.: An Introduction”, and the contributor to multiple books and publications in healthcare management.

Chapter 1: History of the U.S. Healthcare Delivery System Chapter 2: Health Status: The Health of the Population Chapter 3: Components of the Healthcare Delivery System Chapter 4: Structure of Healthcare Delivery Chapter 5: Doctors Chapter 6: Workforce: Nurses, Allied Health, and Management Chapter 7: The Legal and Regulatory Environment Chapter 8: Financing Healthcare Chapter 9: Quality of Care Chapter 10: Public Health Chapter 11: Medical Science and Information Technology