3 Credits
Students will focus on administration of complex health systems rather than singular organizations. Topics include organizational analysis, strategic planning, multi-organizational management issues, and evolving governance structures. Students are expected to discuss and critically analyze theories and methods in health care administration. This course is intended to serve as an arena for discussion and inquiry regarding both current and historical issues in strategic decision-making at the policy and the organizational level. Competencies: Competency A: Analyze the environmental context of complex health care systems. Competency B: Examine the structure and leadership of complex health care systems and subsystems. Competency C: Apply organizational and administrative theories and methods to improve performance in diverse health care systems. Competency D: Analyze the influence of health system governance models on leadership and organizational structures. Competency E: Examine the alignment of an organization's strategic planning to its mission, vision, and philosophy. Competency F: Describe resource generation and allocation strategies including human, financial, technological, and physical resources. Competency G: Evaluate strategies to manage and measure the change process for effective and efficient organizational performance.
3 Credits
Managing risk in health care organizations involves strategic resource management to reduce loss, maximize financial stability, and protect assets. Practitioners must have an understanding of insurance and finance principles as well as litigation management within the context of corporate compliance. Students will apply concepts from claims administration, human resource management, and information technology to analyze how integrated resource management promotes operational efficiency, ethical leadership, and employee retention. Competency A: Evaluate organizational strengths and vulnerabilities to identify operational risk exposure and opportunities for process improvement. Competency B: Manage enterprise risk by identifying potential events that may affect the entity, incorporating risk financing techniques, and developing risk mitigation strategies. Competency C: Examine laws, regulations, and compliance programs affecting risk management in health care organizations. Competency D: Compare and contrast leadership practices that promote employee loyalty and retention within regulatory constraints. Competency E: Leverage institutional resources to protect assets and reduce financial, operating, strategic, regulatory, environmental, reputational, and political risk.
3 Credits
This course focuses on the application of economic theory to the amount, organization, and distribution of health care services in the United States. Students will apply principles such as supply and demand, margin analysis, and cost effectiveness analysis. Students will discuss issues and controversies surrounding the government’s role in financing and regulating health services. Competency A: Analyze the role and applications of economic principles within current health systems. Competency B: Evaluate the application of the tools to address economic issues for health care decision making. Competency C: Assess the impact and evolution of cost containment initiatives within the current health care marketplace and their impact on health care organizations and systems. Competency D: Examine current and future economic challenges in a global health care marketplace.
3 Credits
Contemporary administration requires a thorough understanding of governmental policy and regulatory development process. Students analyze the history of health financing legislation and regulatory implications of the Medicare and Medicaid programs. This course examines the impact of emerging social, economic, ethical, legal, and political issues on the future of the health care system. Emphasis is on the creation of innovative models of health care delivery. Competency A: Analyze the historical foundations of health policy and its reform in the United States. Competency B: Synthesize the combined effects of emerging social, economic, ethical, legal, and political forces on health care systems. Competency C: Critique initiatives that address possible gaps in current health care policy and delivery. Competency D: Assess the leadership styles, societal variables, and market forces that influence health care policy in the global environment.
3 Credits
This course prepares the contemporary health administrator to utilize evaluation research methodologies in making decisions regarding the cost effectiveness of specific health programs. Case studies will be used that incorporate disease-specific programs, community-wide health interventions, and population-specific care management programs across a variety of health settings. Competency A: Assess the broad context of health care program evaluation. Competency B: Evaluate health care problems and issues to justify a program evaluation plan to health care leadership. Competency C: Apply core competencies required for developing a successful health care program evaluation. Competency D: Utilize evidence-based health management to facilitate a health care program evaluation. Competency E: Develop models to implement, monitor, and assess a health care program evaluation.
