Healthcare Administration Graduate Certificate

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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