Health Care Management

Bachelor of Science Degree

The Health Care Management degree completion program is designed to provide working professionals with the necessary skills to become effective managers and leaders in the fast growing health care industry. The admission requirements for this program include a balance of previous education and work experience to assure your success in this area of study. As a graduate, you can expect to find career opportunities in management positions within the diverse health care field or within your own area of clinical/professional expertise.

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.

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