This course provides a foundation for understanding the contribution of formal US healthcare services to the nation's health. Content includes how the structure of healthcare in the US healthcare impacts operational management of provider systems focus on how care is organized, delivered, financed and regulated. Major challenges that impact healthcare cost, quality and access are examined with underpinnings of social justice and impact on communities served. Emphasis is placed on management of quality, patient safety and information technology as centerpieces of the modern health care environment.

Developing, managing healthcare safety and quality programs by demonstrating strategic importance of concepts inside healthcare organizations and clients. Discussion of safety science, high reliability organizations, trends in patient safety, healthcare quality, practices in different healthcare environments, development of organizational cultures, safety & quality, tools for monitoring performance improvement will be examined.

Introduces epidemiological principles, tools pertinent to population health management, delivery of healthcare services, fundamentals of epidemiologic inquiry, population health, community health needs assessment introduced. Methods to effective planning, monitoring, and evaluation of healthcare services. Emphasis given to practical applications, decision-making in healthcare administration, planning, management, financing, outcome evaluation, within healthcare organizations.

This course deepens insights into profession of healthcare administration, presents key principles, practices of management within healthcare organizations. Emphasis given to knowledge, skills necessary to effectively manage healthcare organizations. The interplay between management and the larger environment of internal/external stakeholders explored, ethical issues common to healthcare management examined. Provides foundation for developing effective management.

This course provides a basic understanding of financial management principles with emphasis on the not-for-profit entity. Foundational accounting concepts are explored with a focus on risk, financial statements, capital investments, debt and equity financing.

Building on the foundational learning from Healthcare Finance I, this course focuses on for-profit entities within the health care sector and reimbursement methods. Financial concepts, discounted cash flow analysis, risk, financial performance evaluation, capital investments, capital budgeting, debt, equity financing will be explored. Description, assessments of reimbursement methodologies, strategies will be explored.

This course examines competitive strategy, leadership in current healthcare environment. Content emphasizes formulation, execution & management, critical evaluation of organizational strategy. Key challenges faced by U.S. healthcare organizations and strategic responses are introduced. The relationship between strategic outcomes and leadership is explored emphasizing values-based leadership and individual qualities that define effective leaders.

This course explores the use of data analytics, mining, visualization, tools to support data-driven decisions in healthcare organizations. Students develop a comprehensive view of data, use data to drive outcomes and efficiencies in healthcare. Commonly used methods/challenges in data analytics discussed. Multiple sources are explored including patient-generated data, electronic health records, administrative databases.

This course acquaints students with services delivered following traditional acute-care episodes or stays, providing comprehensive overview of programs, policies, services specific to post-acute care providers, facilities. The operating environment is examined with emphasis on regulations, reimbursement, care delivery, alternative delivery systems. Timely issues, challenges, dilemmas confronting long term care management explored.

The course focuses on understanding decision support systems and how they are used to inform leadership decision-making across healthcare organizations

This course explores the research process and the regulatory requirements in drug, device, and biological product development. The fundamentals of research design, methodology, interpretation, and critical appraisal are introduced. The course requires critical thinking and analysis to determine the relevance of novel research. Emphasis is given to practical applications to decision-making in healthcare administration including planning, management, assessment, and outcome evaluation, within healthcare organizations.

This two-day immersion will serve as an introductory course for the MHA program. Students will explore the concepts of systems thinking and develop practical skills for its application in healthcare settings. Students will be provided with supplemental reading materials and participate in simulations and exercises to hone their skills in this critical leadership competency.

Two-day immersive course provides an overview of how health systems are governed focusing on the structure and operations of boards of directors, as well as external regulatory oversight agencies. Students will explore the relationship of healthcare organizations with governing bodies and identify strategies for effective communication and engagement.

This two-day immersion helps students build practical skills for ongoing performance management and monitoring of strategically aligned key performance indicators. Students will explore use of scorecards, dashboards as tool for ongoing outcomes monitoring, management within health systems. Students will be provided with supplemental reading, guest lecturers, participate in simulations, exercises.

Two-day immersion provides students with practical lessons, recognizing and optimizing the multi-disciplinary nature of healthcare workforces. Focus on building cross-functional teams, recognizing potential strengths/weaknesses of team members from different educational/practice backgrounds. Team building exercises, small group theories will be incorporated to demonstrate practical value of multi-disciplinary teams. Course includes supplemental reading materials, guest lecturers, simulations, exercises to hone skills in critical leadership competency.

This course provides students with the direction and support to complete an independent capstone project relative to their specialty track or area of professional interest. Specialty track students must complete the capstone project in the field of their specialty. Generalist students may choose a focus of study. Students identify a community-based partner of interest and secure commitment from the organization and individual preceptor willing to facilitate the project onsite. Students develop a precise and targeted literature review on a topic of interest and propose an interventional capstone project to address the identified need/problem. A written plan of execution is submitted in the form of the Capstone Project Plan.

This is a directed study course in healthcare administration for approved students, supervised by a member of the MHA faculty. Students must have assigned professor, written objectives, planned outcomes and timelines.