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Masters Healthcare Administration
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Aging in the US: Intro to Gerontology & Senior Support Care |
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This course is designed to provide an overview of the field of gerontology with an emphasis on senior care and services/ resources available to meet the needs of elderly population. The course considers the continuum of care including home case, assisted living, skilled nursing facilities and hospice. The role of technology, including gero-technology, in improving quality of life is examined. |
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Health Aspects of Aging |
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This course is designed to provide an understanding about adult development and aging. The purpose of the course is both to provide a general introduction to the field of gerontology and specific focus on some aspects of aging and behavior. |
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Healthcare Strategic Planning and Marketing |
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This course is designed to provide a comprehensive view of healthcare strategic planning and marketing processes and the application to healthcare services delivery in a variety of organizational and community-based settings. |
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Long Term Care Administration |
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Overview of how the elderly receive care and support in their home and a variety of institutional settings. Focus on the impact of federal and state law-regulations on the delivery of care; the organization of a nursing home and how the delivery of services are arranged; and integrated in the delivery of care and the techniques and processes for effective long term care management. |
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Talent Management in Healthcare |
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This course is designed to study, understand, and apply basic skills essential to role of talent management within healthcare. The degree to which healthcare organizations understand and manage talent resources will have a significant impact on the success of the organization. This course serves as a comprehensive foundation for core aspects of talent planning, development, and administration vital to the talent manager, operational managers, and senior leaders. Additionally, the course will aim to develop students' capacity to identify, discuss, and reflect upon the ethical dimensions of political, social, and personal life, and to understand the ways in which they can exercise responsible and productive citizenship. Students will learn that responsible citizenship requires them to develop skills to understand their own and others' positions, the fundamental importance of talent management, be part of the free exchange of ideas, and function as public-minded citizens. |
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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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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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Field Experience/Global Healthcare Experience for Leaders and Nursing |
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This course exposes students to healthcare leadership, delivery, and reimbursement during a field experience. Students will become acquainted with public delivery of healthcare and compare to healthcare delivery in the United States. Students will discuss how providers, nurses, and ancillary health team members are utilized in delivering healthcare across the globe. The impact and comparison of patient outcomes will be analyzed between the United States and the country(s)/regions that students visit during their field experience. |
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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 completed as one of the final courses in the MHA program. In this course, students participate in a capstone experience in which they are exposed to real-world projects and relationships within healthcare organizations. The experience connects coursework/theory to organizational experiences to allow students to witness the confluence of theory and practice. The student should be wholly responsible for a major project mutually determined by the leader/mentor and the student, under the guidance of faculty. The student develops an executive portfolio 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 their project findings/portfolio to their mentor and faculty. |
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Continuing Registration |
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Continuing enrollment in graduate studies. |
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