Master of Healthcare Admin

This course will focus on the foundation and principles of leadership and governance roles and their application to health service organizations. The foundation and principles of leadership are emphasized and their impact on organizational functionality. Students will examine methods and tools for managing quality in health facilities, physician practices, managed care, patient satisfaction and their impact on organizational functionality. In addition, students will explore governing boards’ primary roles and responsibilities to ensure organizational standards for patient care quality are met. Students will gain insight addressing governing boards’ responsibility for the overall operation of a healthcare facility and additional issues that affect care and shareholders

The course will focus on financial management and analysis of healthcare organizations including fiscal management concepts, capital acquisition, cost of capital and capital structure, capital allocation, working capital management, forecasting, control systems, capital budgeting, and institutional financing.

This course will introduce strategic planning and marketing as they apply to healthcare organizations through the development of practical skills in strategic management such as internal and external environmental assessment, competitor analysis, and methods for evaluating strategic alternatives that may be utilized in diverse types of health care settings.

This course examines communication theory and research in order to understand important communication processes reflected and addressed in healthcare organizations. This course prepares students with the necessary skills and behaviors required to effectively communicate with patients, co-workers, employees, society, and outside organizations in the healthcare field.

Provides a framework for the economic analysis of healthcare issues, and an overview of health policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation in the United States. Examines current health policies and the key factors that impact them, including: political, social, economic, and institutional environments. Focuses on the application of economic principles to current problems in the healthcare industry.

This course will offer a current and historical overview of the legal oversight and regulation of healthcare delivery in the U.S. as it examines principles and practical applications of the laws that affect the operational decisions of healthcare providers, payers, and managers, as well as how that impacts development of markets for healthcare products and services. The social, moral, and ethical issues encountered in trying to balance the interests, needs, and rights of individuals against those of the larger society (The Common Good) will also be examined.

This course will examine ethical issues related to professional practice and leadership through the lens of the Catholic moral tradition documents (Social Catholic Teaching and Ethical and Religious Directives). Introduce the student to compliance in healthcare, classical moral philosophy, and contemporary ethical theory. In addition, students will explore legal, and policy oversight addressing compliance programs. Topics include Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.

This course will emphasize the concepts of human resources management through understanding and identifying the importance of human resources in health organizations, establishing the need for relating organizational strategic planning to human resource planning, examining the role of organizational culture to the understanding of behavior and productivity, and the legal environment pertaining to employment law.

With a focus on the for-profit and not-for-profit healthcare organizations, this course will provide students with tools to facilitate effective gathering and analysis for implementation through the support of health informatics and data analytics initiatives. Students will learn the potential benefits of various informatics initiatives (e.g., electronic health records, laboratory reporting, patient portals) and implementation challenges for diverse types of organizations (e.g., hospitals, physician practices, health departments) and the management and use of institutional-specific and national-derived data.

This course will focus on the foundation and principles of leadership and governance roles and their application to health service organizations. The foundation and principles of leadership are emphasized and their impact on organizational functionality. Students will examine methods and tools for managing quality in health facilities, physician practices, managed care, patient satisfaction and their impact on organizational functionality. In addition, students will explore governing boards’ primary roles and responsibilities to ensure organizational standards for patient care quality are met. Students will gain insight addressing governing boards’ responsibility for the overall operation of a healthcare facility and additional issues that affect care and shareholders.