Healthcare Management Bachelor’s Degree

This course is an introduction to the concepts and competencies required in the management of health systems organizations. The course presents planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling, decision making and problem-solving aspects of management within healthcare systems.

This course addresses the use of accounting information by non-financial managers. Emphasis is placed on the interpretation of accounting information and the language of financial accounting to participate effectively in business activities such as planning, investment, control, and managerial decision.

This course provides an overview of law and ethics relating to the healthcare industry. The legal, regulatory, and ethical requirements relating to the rights and responsibilities of patient/client decisions are presented.

This course integrates the study of individual and group behavior in organizations including motivation, conflict, work stress, power, politics and other challenges of leadership. Emphasis is on ethics, leadership, communication, and decision-making.

This course examines all aspects of human resources including job descriptions, work force planning, training, development policies and procedures, reward systems, and due process relative to personnel management. Employment laws and labor relations will also be covered.

This course describes the scope of operations management and how it pertains to the whole organization. Qualitative principles and techniques to effective planning and utilization of resources in the operations of manufacturing, research and services are emphasized. Topics include operations strategy, change management, product design, process selection, and planning and controlling the supply chain.

This course provides an overview of the economic influences and foundations of the health care delivery system. It presents the importance of economics in health decisions, demand and supply-side factors, and public influences in the economics of healthcare.

This course provides a broad understanding of the critical role information technologies and systems provide in healthcare organizations. Topics include an introduction to health informatics, E-health, planning and project management, and the future of technology in healthcare management.

This is an introductory course in financial analysis and decision-making from a management perspective. Topics include financial statement analysis, financial planning, time, value of money with analysis and computation tools, cash flow analysis, risk and rates of return, asset valuation, capital budgeting, and miscellaneous financial decision- making tools and methods.

This course examines factors affecting the financing of health care. Topics include budgetary concepts, financial management, cost accounting, paying for health services, and managing materials related to healthcare organizations.

This course will examine the continuous quality management and improvement philosophy. Topics will include quality assessment, lean manufacturing, six-sigma, quality processes, techniques for charting attribute and variable data, statistical process control, and total quality management.

This course helps develop the marketing knowledge and skills necessary for the successful management of an organization. Students will research and discuss marketing concepts, including the development and execution of marketing strategies. The course will focus on formulating a marketing strategy for a variety of enterprises including business-to-business, business-to-government, and public service organizations.

This course serves as the capstone for the Healthcare Management Program. The course will provide an opportunity for students to apply academic concepts learned in the program core courses to real- world cases. Students are expected to conduct research on a topic involving contemporary and/or emerging issues that will affect healthcare management and the delivery of health services. Case study oriented. Project must be approved by the instructor. This course should be taken in final quarter.