Credit Distribution
Required Courses (18 Credits)
| HCM-3070
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HCM-3070 Principles of Healthcare ManagementPrinciples of Healthcare Management presents the foundation principles and dynamics of healthcare management, the healthcare system, and basic concepts and skills in administration. Students will analyze the institutional, social, and political forces in the field of healthcare, and topics include fundamentals of management in modern healthcare. This course is an introduction for students to the healthcare stakeholders in a variety of settings as well as key health and medical terms. Students will examine professional behaviors, such as setting goals and managing time, as well as the attitudes and motivation required for success as a healthcare manager. Study Methods:
Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | Principles of Healthcare Management | 3 |
| HCM-3080
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HCM-3080 Healthcare Legal and Ethical ConsiderationsThe rapidly evolving healthcare system presents the healthcare administrator with complex challenges and risks. Healthcare administrators must be able to assess external and internal healthcare policies in order to improve organizational design and delivery of healthcare services. Healthcare Legal and Ethical Considerations focuses on the laws and regulations developed by policymakers that impact the healthcare organizations. Students review key laws that govern patient care delivery, employee relations, contracts, and fraud. Also examined are the ethical underpinnings and principles that healthcare organizations and administrators follow in the delivery of services to patients. Study Methods:
Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | Healthcare Legal and Ethical Considerations | 3 |
| HCM-4060
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HCM-4060 Human Resources Management for Healthcare OrganizationsThis course provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to understand the current issues in human resources (HR) management as it relates to healthcare. Students will be exposed to key concepts, laws, and issues relating to HR management. Healthcare organizations constantly need to improve the quality of operations, streamline clinical delivery and support systems, and transform their HR management to achieve these ends. This course serves as a foundation for all aspects of HR planning and development in hospitals, long-term care centers, and outpatient settings. Students will explore the basic functions of HR; the cost of hiring, training, turnover, and credentialing; cultural competence and diversity; as well as the role of outside factors, such as state regulatory bodies, unions, and other stakeholders. Study Methods:
Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | Human Resources Management for Healthcare Organizations | 3 |
| HCM-3530
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HCM-3530 Comparative Healthcare SystemsComparative Healthcare Systems examines the structure of healthcare systems in different countries. Students will compare the global health policy, administration, and practices of different countries, including how they use these concepts to balance their economic and health goals through health system reform, improvement, and modification. The course will include an exploration of emerging events, advances, reforms, and challenges in the delivery of healthcare around the world. For 21 countries, students will explore their geography and culture, examine the history of their health systems, and evaluate their cost, quality, access, and innovation. Study Methods:
Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | Comparative Healthcare Systems | 3 |
| HCM-4040
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HCM-4040 Healthcare Quality and Outcomes: Measurement and ManagementHealthcare Quality and Outcomes: Measurement and Management will focus on the evolving technologies and approaches used by healthcare providers to evaluate their performance and communicate their organizations' clinical, safety, and patient satisfaction outcomes to their stakeholders. The course will explore the key principles of quality management (measurement, assessment, and improvement) and will examine the evolution of quality management and the different ways that this process has evolved over recent decades. Topics will include new quality management regulations and standards, healthcare application of improvement models adopted from other industries, and different ways to manage the quality of population health improvement initiatives. By the end of the course, students will have developed a thorough appreciation of the current methods used by policymakers, researchers, payers, and healthcare providers to evaluate outcomes as well as those used by consumers to choose who and where they get medical care. Study Methods:
Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | Healthcare Quality and Outcomes: Measurement and Management | 3 |
| HCM-4050
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HCM-4050 The Financing and Economics of Healthcare DeliveryIn this course, students gain knowledge of economics principles such as cost, quality, and access as it relates to the healthcare environment. The principles of healthcare financial management, including accounting and finance, are vitally important to the viability and ongoing operations of all healthcare businesses and organizations. This course will explore the impact of healthcare policy on the costs and consequences of healthcare delivery and finance, so that students can better understand the impact of these proposed changes within healthcare policy. Topics include the relevance of economics in health and medical care, demand-side considerations, supply-side considerations, and public policy in medical care delivery. By the end of the course, students will have developed a thorough appreciation of the impact of healthcare policy on the costs and consequences of healthcare delivery and finance and its impact on the proposed changes in healthcare policy. Study Methods:
Credits: 3 Preview the Online Syllabus | The Financing and Economics of Healthcare Delivery | 3 |
Total Credit Hours: 18