Latino Metropolis
Author: Victor M Vall
Urban Studies/Latin American Studies
A readable look at culture and politics in Los Angeles through a Latino lens.
Los Angeles: scratch the surface of the city's image as a rich mosaic of multinational cultures and a grittier truth emerges-its huge, shimmering economy was built on the backs of largely Latino immigrants and still depends on them. This book exposes the underside of the development and restructuring that have turned Los Angeles into a global city, and in doing so it reveals the ways in which ideas about ethnicity-Latino identity itself-are implicated and elaborated in the process. A penetrating analysis of the social, economic, cultural, and political consequences of the growth of the Latino working-class populations in Los Angeles, Latino Metropolis is also a nuanced account of the complex links between political economy and the social construction of ethnicity.
Lifting examples from recent news stories, political encounters, and cultural events, the authors demonstrate how narratives about Latinos are used to maintain the status quo-particularly the existing power grid-in the city. In media representations of riots, in the recasting (and "whitening") of Mexican food as Spanish-American cuisine, in the community displacement that occurred as part of the development of the Staples Center-in telling instances large and small, we see how Los Angeles and its Latino population are mutually transforming. And we see how an old Latino politics of "racial" identity is inevitably giving way to a new politics of class.
Combining political and economic insight with trenchant social and cultural analysis, this work offers the clearest statement to date of howethnicity and class intersect in defining racialized social relations in the contemporary metropolis.
Victor M. Valle is associate professor of ethnic studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Rodolfo D. Torres is associate professor of education at the University of California, Irvine, where he teaches social policy and urban political economy.
Globalization and Community Series, volume 7 Translation Inquiries: University of Minnesota Press
Library Journal
Valle (ethnic studies, California Polytechnic State Univ.) and Torres (education, Univ. of California) challenge existing methodologies of defining urban society in terms of race, calling for the construction of a new urban politics based on the commonalities of culture and class. Providing a micro-level analysis of Los Angeles, the authors demonstrate how the city and its neighbors function as private wealth-producing machines without giving money back to the communities whose workers make that revenue possible. They use examples from recent news stories, political encounters, and cultural events to make their case that Latinos are used to maintain the existing power structure and can change things only by understanding and strengthening their global political options. While the book focuses exclusively on the dynamics in Los Angeles (e.g., globalization, immigration, and politics), its argument can be extrapolated to analyze conditions of Latinos in cities across the United States. Geared toward postgraduates in urban studies, this book is recommended for academic libraries.--Deborah Bigelow, Leonia P.L., NJ Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
Los Angeles Times
The authors have taken careful observations and measurements of the political, economic and social factors that affect the Latino population, ranging from the globalization of the Southern California economy to the shrinkage in housing, schools and social services. Caught among these seemingly blind and irresistible forces, however, are human beings, and the authors issue a dire warning that we ignore the poor and disempowered among us at our own peril. . . . Clearly, Latino Metropolis seeks to hold us all to the very highest standards when it comes to understanding and honoring the Latino traditions of California and accommodating the urgent needs of its growing Latino population. And the fact is that its verbal pyrotechnics serve their intended purpose--the authors manage to catch and hold our attention with the occasional verbal blow, and then they deliver a sober (and sobering) lecture on the hard realities of multiculturalism.
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Handbook of Home Health Care Administration
Author: Marilyn D Harris
This revision of the 1994 bestseller includes eight new chapters, addressing computerized clinical record systems, telemedicine, competency evaluation of staff, quality planning for quality care, outcome—based quality improvement (a HCFA mandate), cross—training from acute care to home care, the impact of managed care on the delivery of home care, and integrated health care systems. All chapters have been updated to reflect the changing home health care scene.
Bader Peters Reynolds
This is the second edition of a comprehensive resource for home care and hospice administrators that provides in-depth coverage of the administration process within an agency. This book is intended to provide an overview of the administration of home care and hospice services. Successfully achieving its purpose, this user friendly text is a welcome resource. The objectives of this book are met. This book is intended for administrators of home health and hospice organizations. An additional audience would be the students of a health care administration program in a university setting. This would be a valuable reference text for this audience. The editor and contributors bring a wealth of expertise to this book. Black-and-white illustrations provide useful tools. References are pertinent and current. The table of contents, index, references, and appendixes are well organized and user friendly. The book excels in "real life" worksheet samples, illustrating content. The editor contends this new edition offers a guide for the future of home care, as reflected in the last section of the book. Divided into ten parts and 80 chapters, the text allows the reader an opportunity to peruse the material by topic or in full. It is an appropriate text for home care and hospice administrators as well as a useful reference text in the university setting.
Doody Review Services
Reviewer: Bader Peters Reynolds, RN, MS (CareGivers, Inc.)
Description: This is the second edition of a comprehensive resource for home care and hospice administrators that provides in-depth coverage of the administration process within an agency.
Purpose: This book is intended to provide an overview of the administration of home care and hospice services. Successfully achieving its purpose, this user friendly text is a welcome resource. The objectives of this book are met.
Audience: This book is intended for administrators of home health and hospice organizations. An additional audience would be the students of a health care administration program in a university setting. This would be a valuable reference text for this audience. The editor and contributors bring a wealth of expertise to this book.
Features: Black-and-white illustrations provide useful tools. References are pertinent and current. The table of contents, index, references, and appendixes are well organized and user friendly. The book excels in "real life" worksheet samples, illustrating content.
Assessment: The editor contends this new edition offers a guide for the future of home care, as reflected in the last section of the book. Divided into ten parts and 80 chapters, the text allows the reader an opportunity to peruse the material by topic or in full. It is an appropriate text for home care and hospice administrators as well as a useful reference text in the university setting.
Booknews
Overviews the administration of home health and hospice services. Part I reviews home health administration, and Part II addresses agency and professional standards for home health agencies. Part III explores clinical issues affecting service delivery and cost identification, with emphasis on determining competency of personnel. Part IV describes quality assessment and performance improvement, with new chapters on outcome-based quality improvement and benchmarking, and Part V touches on management issues. Parts VI and VII deal with financial, legal, and ethical issues, and Part VIII discusses strategic planning and marketing. Part IX addresses administrative staff as innovators, and Part X looks at the potential of telemedicine. This third edition reflects the many changes in the field over the three years since the first edition was published. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Rating
3 Stars from Doody
Table of Contents:
| Foreword | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Ch. 1 | Home health administration : an overview | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | The home health agency | 16 |
| Ch. 3 | Medicare conditions of participation | 27 |
| Ch. 4 | The joint commission's home care accreditation program | 63 |
| Ch. 5 | CHAP accreditation : standards of excellence for home care and community health organizations | 71 |
| Ch. 6 | Accreditation for home care aide and private duty services | 81 |
| Ch. 7 | ACHC : accreditation for home care and alternate site health care services | 86 |
| Ch. 8 | Certificate of need and licensure | 92 |
| Ch. 9 | Credentialing : organizational and personnel options for home care | 101 |
| Ch. 10 | The relationship of the home health agency to the state trade association | 111 |
| Ch. 11 | The national association for home care and hospice | 115 |
| Ch. 12 | The visiting nurse association of America | 124 |
| Ch. 13 | Self-care systems in home health care nursing | 131 |
| Ch. 14 | Home health care documentation and record keeping | 135 |
| App. 14-A | COP standards pertaining to HHA clinical record policy | 147 |
| App. 14-B | Abington Memorial Hospital home care clinical records | 150 |
| Ch. 15 | Computerized clinical documentation | 161 |
| Ch. 16 | Home telehealth : improving care and decreasing costs | 176 |
| Ch. 17 | Implementing a competency system in home care | 185 |
| Ch. 18 | Meeting the need for culturally and linguistically appropriate services | 211 |
| Ch. 19 | Classification : an underutilized tool for prospective payment | 224 |
| Ch. 20 | Analysis and management of home health nursing caseloads and workloads | 236 |
| Ch. 21 | Home health care classification (HHCC) system : an overview | 247 |
| Ch. 22 | Nursing diagnoses in home health nursing | 261 |
| Ch. 23 | Perinatal high-risk home care | 274 |
| Ch. 24 | High technology home care services | 279 |
| Ch. 25 | Discharge of a ventilator-assisted child from the hospital to home | 291 |
| Ch. 26 | Performance improvement | 301 |
| Ch. 27 | Evidence-based practice : basic strategies for success | 310 |
| Ch. 28 | Quality planning for quality patient care | 315 |
| Ch. 29 | Program Evaluation | 320 |
| App. 29-A | Formats for presenting program evaluation tools | |
| Ch. 30 | Effectiveness of a clinical feedback approach to improving patient outcomes | 341 |
| Ch. 31 | Implementing outcome-based quality improvement into the home health agency | 352 |
| Ch. 32 | Benchmarking and home health care | 383 |
| Ch. 33 | Administrative policy and procedure manual | 395 |
| Ch. 34 | Discharge planning | 399 |
| Ch. 35 | Strategies to retain and attract quality staff | 421 |
| Ch. 36 | Evaluating productivity | 436 |
| Ch. 37 | Labor-management relations | 448 |
| Ch. 38 | Human resource management | 459 |
| Ch. 39 | Staff development in a home health agency | 474 |
| Ch. 40 | Transitioning nurses to home care | 484 |
| Ch. 41 | Case management | 495 |
| Ch. 42 | Managed care | 499 |
| Ch. 43 | Community-based long-term care : preparing for a new role | 507 |
| Ch. 44 | Understanding the exposures of home health care : an insurance primer | 519 |
| Ch. 45 | Budgeting for home health agencies | 527 |
| Ch. 46 | Reimbursement | 535 |
| Ch. 47 | How to read, interpret, and understand financial statements | 549 |
| Ch. 48 | Management information systems | 558 |
| Ch. 49 | Legal issues of concern to home care providers | 571 |
| Ch. 50 | Understanding the basics of home health compliance | 590 |
| Ch. 51 | The HIPAA standards for privacy of individually identifiable health information | 616 |
| Ch. 52 | Ethical practice in the daily service to home care client, their families, and the community | 666 |
| Ch. 53 | Participating in the political process | 675 |
| Ch. 54 | Strategic planning | 693 |
| Ch. 55 | Marketing : an overview | 708 |
| Ch. 56 | The internet in home health and hospice care | 723 |
| Ch. 57 | Disease management programs | 736 |
| Ch. 58 | The process of visiting nurse association affiliation with a major teaching hospital | 756 |
| Ch. 59 | Grantsmanship in home health care : seeking foundation support | 771 |
| Ch. 60 | Home care volunteer program | 778 |
| Ch. 61 | The manager as published author : tips on writing for publication | 796 |
| Ch. 62 | Student placements in home health care agencies : boost or barrier to quality patient care? | 810 |
| Ch. 63 | A student program in one home health agency | 818 |
| Ch. 64 | The role of the physician in home care | 834 |
| Ch. 65 | Research in home health agencies | 840 |
| Ch. 66 | Hospice care : pioneering the ultimate love connection about living not dying | 850 |
| App. 66-A | State of Connecticut physician assisted living (PAL) directive | 863 |
| App. 66-B | Summary guidelines for initiation of advanced care | 864 |
| Ch. 67 | Safe harbor : a bereavement program for children, teens, and families | 866 |
| Ch. 68 | Planning, implementing, and managing a community-based nursing center : current challenges and future opportunities | 872 |
| Ch. 69 | Adult day services - the next frontier | 883 |
| Ch. 70 | Partners in healing : home care, hospice, and parish nurses | 891 |
| Ch. 71 | Meeting the present challenges and continuing to thrive in the future : tips on how to be successful as an administrator in home health and hospice care | 899 |
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