Bachelor of Science - Health Care Management

Program Goals
The program will:

• provide students with a fundamental knowledge of health care accounting, marketing, finance, law, management/supervision, and health care perspectives needed for managerial positions in the health care industry.
• develop students’ capabilities in research, and current technology, for application and use in data collection, and business analysis as it applies to health care.
• provide students with the opportunity to develop their oral and written business communication skills.
• provide students with the tools for critical thinking to enable them to analyze problems by identifying and evaluating alternative solutions to problem solving.
• involve students in teamwork/leadership development through participation in classroom and/or online discussion groups, assignments, written papers, and learning activities.
• provide students with an understanding of professional and personal ethics and its application within the health care business environment.
• measure key student learning outcomes, and identify and implement opportunities for improvement.

Student Learning Outcomes
Graduates of the program will:

• apply management and leadership concepts and principles to define successful business strategies in health care that are both professional and ethical.
• demonstrate fundamental knowledge of health care laws and regulations, quality improvement, information management and health care technology, as well as, health care finance.
• recognize and articulate specific knowledge of health care organizational structure and governance, including human resources knowledge as a mechanism for leadership problem resolution.
• demonstrate critical thinking skills to analyze problems by identifying and evaluating appropriate alternative solutions according to health care business practices.
• show proficiency in written and oral communication skills.