Health Administration Course Descriptions
MHA 420 THE LANGUAGE & CULTURE OF HEALTHCARE 3.0 Credit(s)
Introduction to organization, economic, culture, policy, and terminology of healthcare for non-health professionals. This also introduces the students to fundamental terminology, practices, and processes found in clinical and business operations.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MHA 510 MANAGEMENT OF HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATION 3.0 Credit(s)
Leaders in healthcare are faced with an ever-changing environment and therefore require strong managerial skills to transform the way their organizations respond to and lead change initiatives to shape tomorrow's delivery system. This course addresses challenges faced in healthcare administration and potential solutions using practical approaches. Topics include strategy, culture, managerial, and strategic issues facing healthcare organizations.
MHA 511 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT & MARKETING IN HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS 3.0 Credit(s)
Strategic management of healthcare organizations is crucial to future success and involves setting objectives, analyzing the competitive environment, analyzing the internal organization and external forces as well as the viability of future directions for the organization. The course provides an organized, logical and, stepwise approach to the strategic management process and includes methods for assessing key features of organizational environments and competitive situations, approaches for developing strategic plans, and processes for ensuring their successful implementation.
MHA 512 HEALTHCARE FINANCE MANAGEMENT & ACCOUNTING 3.0 Credit(s)
Many of the decisions that healthcare leaders and managers make will have significant financial implications. This course is designed to increase analytical and decision-making skills using finance theories, principles, concepts, and techniques important to healthcare management. Includes department design, management of capital and operating budgets, budget planning process, strategic planning, and concepts necessary for the preparation and interpretation of financial statements required to make sound decisions that help deliver financial sustainability and profitability.
Offered: Modules Odd Semesters All Years
MHA 513 HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS 3.0 Credit(s)
High level overview of the use of technology in healthcare and how its use can be leveraged for organizational value. Overviews of the following topics will be included: administrative and clinical software applications, healthcare systems acquisition, evidence-based practice and clinical decision support, electronic health records, workflow design and reengineering, healthcare information exchanges, telehealth and consumer focused technology. A high-level look at the healthcare industry and recent government mandates will also be explored.
Offered: Modules Even Semesters All Years
MHA 563 HEALTH POLICY, LAW & ETHICS 3.0 Credit(s)
This course examines the impact of legal factors affecting patient/client care and the operations and administration of healthcare facilities and systems. Topics include employment and contract law, patient rights (e.g., provider disclosure), healthcare accountability (e.g., medical error liability), and healthcare access (e.g., universal coverage). Includes an overview of ethical issues facing the healthcare industry and how health law and ethics can be applied to real-world problems.
Offered: Modules All Semesters All Years
MHA 612 LEADERSHIP IN HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENTS 3.0 Credit(s)
Philosophy, structure and processes of Public Health Leadership in health care. Topics covered include: Leadership curriculum, Leadership qualities, levels and styles, Leadership culture and change management. Prerequisite: Take MHA-510
Offered: Module 6 All Years
MHA 620 HEALTHCARE DATA ANALYTICS 3.0 Credit(s)
Utilization of data is critical to healthcare and acquiring intelligence through analytics is crucial to the day-to-day operations as well as future directions of these organizations. This course provides an overview of how healthcare data is generated, collected, and processed. It will include the use and analysis of data captured in the healthcare setting to directly inform decision-making. It has the power to positively impact patient care delivery, health outcomes and business operations. Utilization and leveraging of healthcare data can drive improvements in our nation's entire healthcare system through unbiased information and by facilitating problem solving, solution sharing, and education through the collection and analyzing of healthcare data. Statistical and Research Methods pertinent to healthcare will be explored. Prerequisite: Take MHA-510
Offered: Modules All Semesters All Years
MHA 621 HEALTH ECONOMICS 3.0 Credit(s)
This course introduces the application of economic theory to the production of health and healthcare services. Students will investigate the demand for medical care and the roles of moral hazard and adverse selection in the health insurance market. They will analyze the differences in pricing and utilization across healthcare systems (HMO, PPO, POS), markets for physicians, hospital and pharmaceutical services, as well as the role of the government in the regulation and administration of healthcare. Students will also learn the decision-making tools used in the economic evaluation of healthcare interventions. Prerequisite: Take MHA-512
Offered: Modules All Semesters All Years
MHA 640 POPULATION & GLOBAL HEALTH MANAGEMENT 3.0 Credit(s)
Population health focuses on the health and well-being of entire populations. Populations may be geographically defined, such as neighborhoods, states, or countries, or may be based on groups of individuals who share common characteristics such as age, gender, race-ethnicity, disease status, employee group membership, or socioeconomic status. With roots in epidemiology, public health, and demography, a key component of population health is the focus on the social determinants of health and "upstream" collaborative interventions to improve population health and variance, identify and reduce health disparities, and reduce healthcare costs. Given the shifting health care environment - from fee-for-service to value based care - health administrators and managers who are able to apply epidemiological and demographic tools to measure, analyze, evaluate and improve population health will be well positioned for positions in health care as the field continues to evolve. Prerequisite: Take MHA-620
Offered: Modules Odd Semesters All Years
MHA 641 NEGOTIATIONS & CONFLICT RESOLUTION 3.0 Credit(s)
Effective conflict management is an essential skill for every leader. This course provides a broad understanding of what conflict is, reasons why it occurs and various methods and approaches on how to resolve. Exploration of effective negotiation methods and ways to create value and resolve disputes. Designed to improve understanding of negotiation theory to be a more effective negotiator in a variety of situations. Prerequisite: Take MHA-510
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MHA 642 HEALTHCARE OPERATIONS & QUALITY 3.0 Credit(s)
Health care organizations face numerous challenges, including rising costs, increasing complexity and quality issues, all while confronting an increase in demand for limited resources. This course examines the operations of the entire healthcare organization and its management, including the role of strategic planning and governance, clinical and non-clinical support services, quality improvement, environment-of-care and facilities management, personnel and staffing, finance, information technology and marketing.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MHA 643 INNOVATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT 3.0 Credit(s)
With an ever-evolving landscape, innovation in healthcare is necessary in response to environmental disruptions. Organizational change theories and models, futurist literature, and major world trends in innovation that impact sustainable change efforts in education, health care, social enterprises, for- profit and not-for-profit organizations, and related disciplines are examined. Additional topics include models and strategies in anticipating, creating, and managing change; collaboration; overcoming resistance to change; and creativity and innovations. Students will investigate applications and practices of organizational change relevant to their academic and professional interests. Prerequisite: Take MHA-511
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MHA 644 PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATORS 3.0 Credit(s)
Project management expertise is an essential skill for healthcare administrators to ensure projects are conducted with a proven framework and aligned with organizational strategy. This course introduces tools and techniques designed to facilitate critical project management knowledge areas, such as scope, schedule, cost, quality, resource, communication, risk, procurement, and stakeholder. Emphasis is placed on the skills and abilities of effective project managers. Students will learn the value of delivering a project on time, within schedule, and to the customer's satisfaction.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MHA 650 FIELD EXPERIENCE I 3.0 Credit(s)
This Field Experience/Internship is a practical learning experience arranged with a variety of healthcare organizations and which provides a supervised short-term educational experience. An Internship allows a student to develop professionally through a work experience under the guidance of leaders in the fields of health administration. As an extension of the curriculum, and the Internship experience affords the student an opportunity to apply his/her theoretical knowledge and technical skills in a practical manner gaining valuable training, which will better enable him/her to perform with a higher level of skill and confidence. Student involvement in a professional field experience has significant value during an academic career. The practical application of classroom theory gives meaning and fulfillment to formal education experiences through exposure to professionals. The purpose of this experience is to augment formal classroom instruction, to experiment with theory and concepts, to utilize resources, and to begin the development of professional competency.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MHA 651 FIELD EXPERIENCE II 3.0 Credit(s)
A continuation of Field Experience I This field experience is a continuation of MHA 625- Field Experience I and builds on real-world experiences in the field of Health Administration. This course enables students to gain professional experience in a healthcare organization by working directly with our partner organizations in a supervised environment and provides the student with hands-on opportunities to integrate classroom education with real-world experience. Students will undertake informatics projects that provide skills and competencies through practice.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MHA 655 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 1.0 Credit(s)
Professional career development seminar designed to prepare students to leverage career services and to begin long-term career planning for their future as health administration leaders including carefully developed coursework and personal coaching. Preparation for the capstone course will be accomplished with selection of project or research topic will be discussed and finalized. (Program Director Approval)
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MHA 660 CAPSTONE 3.0 Credit(s)
The capstone project involves practical work or research in a major area of health administration through student-led work. This course provides an opportunity to integrate knowledge gained in the classroom with a real-world problem. All projects require meetings with faculty members who serve as mentors. Projects may be completed on-site within a healthcare facility. Students who currently work in the healthcare industry may develop a capstone at their current place of employment with the approval of the employer and faculty mentor. Capstone will be taken as one of the last two courses in the student's program of study, and after students have successfully completed the required core courses. (Program Director Approval)
Offered: As Needed Contact Department