Health Care Administration

This course provides an explanation of how the United States health care system is structured and how it functions. The student is given an overview of the U. S. health system, the underlying reasons for health services utilization, and an examination of measures used to assess access to health services.

Provides an overview of theoretical and practical ethics with an emphasis on bioethics, while investigating medical professions and expectations. Major ethical theories are used to debate and write effectively about ethical dilemmas. Topics related to professionalism include career explorations, presentations, expectations for academic and professional success, and professional ethical standards.

This course provides a foundational interdisciplinary understanding in the main concepts of global health and the critical links between global health and social and economic development including poverty reduction, economic productivity, and peace promotion.  The course will be global in coverage but will focus health disparities from low - and middle - income countries as well as to current health disparities in the US.  Comparisons in health care systems and health outcomes will be addressed along with the major international health agencies and NGOS.  SDGS will be addressed along with differences in communicable and non-communicable diseases and demographic patters of disease burden.  Class activities will focus on challenging global health problems, and strategies to address them. 

This course is an introduction to the current financial environment in the health care industry. The course blends the best of current finance theory with the tools needed in day-to-day practice, covering topics such as budgeting, staffing and using technology and big data to plan, monitor, and control financial status.

This course provides an overview of the economics of health care. The various payers are examined, including private, state, and federal entities. The student is exposed to an analytical approach in its treatment of political economics and introduced to the concept of the value of economics in understanding public policy issues that affect the medical services sector and the future economics of health care.

Covers principles and methods of public health and epidemiology including tenets, applications, and foci of modern public health and its integration with other health professions. Biological, behavioral, sociocultural, economic, and environmental factors associated with etiology and distribution of disease are examined. Students will read, interpret and evaluate published epidemiologic studies.

This course is an introduction to the digital transformation of healthcare. It is a comprehensive study of processes, systems, and information technology concepts presented in an integrated perspective that includes quality management processes, redesign strategies and emerging technologies.

The politics of Health Care examines the guiding rules, ideas, and concepts in the political development of the U. S. health policy. It covers the government institutions part in forming policy, i.e., business corporations, doctors, lobbyists, and public opinion.

This course is an introduction to how U.S. law governs health care delivery. Students gain an understanding of various stakeholder perspectives, including providers, legislative bodies, patients, families, and patient advocates on legal issues and concerns.

This course covers operations management, organizational behavior, and health services research through an interdisciplinary approach to quality management in health care. The student will focus on Total Quality Management and Continuous Quality Improvement, learning to meet the challenges of implementation and institutionalization in a variety of healthcare settings.

This is the capstone course for the Bachelor of Science in Health Care Administration. It includes a comprehensive exit examination, career preparation activities, and a case study project that requires students to research and analyze a real-world health care administration scenario using a strategic management framework with a focus on the evaluation of strategic alternatives and strategy.

The student is placed in a local private or public enterprise to gain work-related experience consistent with his/her study in Health Care Administration. The student will have a faculty sponsor, as well as a supervisor at the enterprise to direct and supervise the student’s activities. A student is expected to complete 125 hours for 3 semester hours of credit.

The student is placed in a local private or public enterprise to gain work-related experience consistent with his/her study in Health Care Administration. The student will have a faculty sponsor, as well as a supervisor, at the enterprise to direct and supervise the student’s activities. A student is expected to complete 250 hours for 6 semester hours of credit.

This course provides an understanding of the formulation, adoption and implementation of public policy, and its effects on health care delivery. Students will examine federal, state, and local political processes and focus on the role of healthcare administrators, as well as other key stakeholders, in implementing health policies into operational and organizational strategies.

This course examines the delivery models of healthcare, the regulatory environment of healthcare, and the professional roles of people in healthcare. Research methodologies will be applied to evaluate the dynamic practices and innovations of healthcare services.

This course researches the digital transformation, relevant and emerging information systems and technologies that exist in the healthcare industry. Healthcare information systems strategy and innovation essential to meeting the needs of effective and efficient healthcare delivery and services will be explored.

In this course, students will explore how ethics and legal issues impact corporate decision-making in the health care industry. Students will identify, analyze and apply ethical and legal principles to resolve health care–related case studies. Topics covered in this course include ethical principles in health care, health care regulatory and licensing laws, patient and staff protection laws, informed consent, end of life care and fraud/abuse.

Health care leaders of the 21st century are challenged to provide health care of higher quality and lower cost to a diverse population of Americans with greater life expectancies. This broad challenge encompasses a number of dilemmas that must be acknowledged, managed and addressed by skilled health care leaders. In this course, students will explore the dilemmas, role and competencies required of a health care administrator in leading organizational change. Students will examine various leadership theories and approaches, learn to create and implement vision, and develop strategies for sustaining change in the ever-evolving health care industry.