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Masters Healthcare Administration
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Healthcare Quality, Safety, and Regulatory Management |
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This course focuses on quality improvement, patient satisfaction, quality measurement, management of quality information/data, and process improvement. It is designed to develop leadership across the care continuum in diverse settings using quality and safety models, tools, and metrics. Quality and performance improvement programs and processes, root cause analysis, and risk management will be addressed. National patient safety goals, regulatory standards, survey processes, nurse sensitive indicators, and high-reliability organizational concepts will be covered. Additionally, data management tools used for analysis and trending will be viewed in relation to quality and risk management. |
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Research and Evidence Based Practice |
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An education, business or healthcare statistics course at the undergraduate (300/400 course, 3000/4000 course) or graduate level prior to registering for MHA 615. Any other alternative must be approved by the MHA Graduate Program Coordinator. A course within the last 5 years is highly recommended.
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This course focuses on evidence-based practice and the foundational knowledge necessary to support such practice. The interrelationship between theory, ethics, research, and evidence-based clinical practice will be highlighted. The course builds upon understanding of research and evidence based practice concepts, processes, and methodologies appropriate for diverse healthcare career paths (e.g., academic, leadership, practice). Knowledge acquisition, leveling of evidence, and literature synthesis will be addressed. Translational science strategies to improve practice change implementation will be analyzed. Throughout the course, students will critique research and evidence-based practice changes. The importance of participating in and/or leading collaborative teams to improve health outcomes and support policy changes through knowledge generation, knowledge dissemination, and planning, as well as, evaluating knowledge implementation will be emphasized. |
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Healthcare Law and Ethical Decision Making |
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This course focuses on the complex and ever-changing legal principles and issues encountered in healthcare. This includes ethical issues/dilemmas (e.g. patient rights and provider duties in complex situations) and the role of the healthcare leader in making decisions utilizing ethical principles. Specifically, this course is designed to provide an overview of the general legal rules and concepts governing many aspects of the healthcare industry. The primary focus of this course is law as it relates to the delivery of healthcare in settings that include: hospitals, long-term care facilities, and medical offices. Exposure to numerous areas of the law that impact healthcare well be discussed including: modern tort laws, contracts, criminal law, employment law, and a review of the law governing business organizations. |
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Applied Healthcare Financial Management |
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Understanding and applying financial management strategies are an important concept for healthcare leaders to develop. This course will prepare students to lead and apply financial management strategies by developing an understanding of the following topics: financial decision-making and management, financial markets, balance sheet analysis, working capital management, capital structure, business valuation and risk management. |
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Applied Healthcare Financial Management |
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Understanding and applying financial management strategies are an important concept for healthcare leaders to develop. This course will prepare students to lead and apply financial management strategies by developing an understanding of the following topics: financial decision-making and management, financial markets, balance sheet analysis, working capital management, capital structure, business valuation and risk management. |
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Health Program Planning and Evaluation |
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This course introduces the field of program evaluation to support population health management. Students will learn how to develop theoretically-informed and evidence-based population health initiatives. Each student learns how to assess, plan, implement and evaluate for population needs. Students will review the following elements of program evaluation: (a) community needs health assessments focusing on the needs of the population, (b) reviewing appropriate evidence to create a logical model for change, (c) creating budgets/identifying funding sources, (d) contracting, (e) engaging key stakeholders, and (f) methods to evaluate programs. |
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Healthcare Delivery Systems, Policy, and Reimbursement |
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This course is focused on the process of leadership in (a) health care delivery systems, (b) policy at organizational and governmental levels, (c) impact of national policy on US health care delivery systems, and (d) financing and reimbursement of health care. Students will analyze ethical decision-making and key stakeholder roles in policy development. Students will examine how policies impact health care outcomes of individuals, families, and populations. This may include (but not limited to): (a) political, economic and social evolution, (b) access to medical services, (c) public and private insurance, and (d) current issues in organization and reimbursement. Fiscal, economic forces and quality impacts of policy decisions upon institutions and the health care system will be considered. |
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Health Information Systems |
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This course provides foundational knowledge regarding healthcare informatics and information systems. Students will learn the history and basic definitions of concepts related to healthcare informatics. Students will explore the benefits and barriers in adopting health information technology within healthcare organizations. Students will discuss how data can be leveraged from information systems to drive process changes that promote patient-centered care, patient safety, and quality improvement. The course will focus on: (a) Background and foundational information for health informatics; (b) Information systems and applications for delivery of healthcare ; (c) Participatory healthcare informatics and healthcare on the internet; (d) Life cycle of the health information system/project management; (e) User experience, standards, safety, and analytics in health informatics; (f) Governance structures, legal, and regulatory issues in health informatics; (g) Education and informatics; and (h) The future of health informatics, including international efforts and bioinformatics. |
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Organizational Strategy and Systems Leadership |
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This course will provide participants with an understanding of organizational and systems leadership skills that are culturally-sensitive, evidence-driven, and critical for improving healthcare systems and enhancing patient outcomes. The course focuses on transformational leadership, interprofessional collaboration, innovation, change theory, and strategic management of organizations. The business realities of leading within various healthcare settings will be explored. Students will gain an understanding of how strategic management and innovative leadership are interrelated within health care organizations. Strategic development, execution, and evaluation will be discussed. |
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Healthcare Operations Management |
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This course examines the application of operations management in the framework of healthcare organizations. The course will examine how operational issues impact healthcare management and delivery of safe patient care. Students will assess healthcare operation issues and analyze how they may impact the organization and patient care delivery. Students will develop problem solving skills and critical thinking by engaging in the following topics: (a) operations, systems and financial management; (b) risk analysis and patient safety; (c) quality, productivity and project management; (d) logistics and supply chain management; and (e) operational best practices, decision-making and data management/evaluation. |
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Topics in Healthcare Administration |
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Topics in the Master's Program for Healthcare Administration |
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Capstone I |
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The purpose of the Capstone I course is to prepare the student to complete the Capstone Project at a healthcare organization. In this course the student will look at how organizations and individuals can adapt to change, explore and develop project management skills, develop professional behaviors/expectations to be conveyed during the Capstone II experience, and select a mutually agreeable site for the Capstone Project. Students must have a minimum of 36 credits completed prior to enrolling in this course. |
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Capstone II |
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MHA 692A and permission to register |
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Capstone II is a two phase process, completed as the final course in the MHA program. The purpose of this course is to provide practical experience based in recently acquired leadership and administrative theory. The first phase of the Capstone II experience will be accomplished via the student connecting with a leader within the healthcare industry. In this phase, students will have an opportunity to work directly with community health care leaders. The student should be wholly responsible for a major project determined by the leader, student and faculty. In the second phase, the student will develop a written project conceived, managed and researched by the student, which requires employing a concept learned and matched to a provider need. At the conclusion of the project the student will present an executive portfolio to peers and faculty that outlines the project deliverables. |
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Continuing Registration |
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Continuing enrollment in graduate studies. |
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