[academia_course_sections title=”Health Care Management Graduate Certificate”][academia_course_lesson icon_type=”fontawesome” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-file-text” badge=”lecture” title=”MHA 5001: Health Care Financial Management” icon_tool_tip=”TEXT” estimate_time=”3 HOURS”]
Description
Utilizes standard financial tools to manage healthcare organization capital resources. Topics include capital funding, project management, costing and budgetary methods, capital formation, and infrastructure investment strategies.
Objectives
- Describe key methodologies for the practical application of financial management in health care organizations.
- Explain variable and fixed costs, direct and indirect costs, and cost accounting principles for health care services or processes.
- Compare and contrast the external financing options which are available for health care organizations today.
- Describe the financial approach to strategic health care planning, considering how managers can participate most effectively in this process.
- Discuss change, innovation, and learning as they relate to the financial management of health care organizations.
- Discuss the future of healthcare financial management in the United States.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Financial management for public, health, and not-for-profit organizations (Rev: 4th ed.)
Publisher: Prentice Hall (2013)
Author: Finkler, S. A.
ISBN: 978-0-13-280566-7
Price: $268.91
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at bookstore@AU.EDU.GL
[/academia_course_lesson][academia_course_lesson icon_type=”fontawesome” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-file-text” badge=”lecture” title=”MHA 5101: Legal Foundations of Health Care” icon_tool_tip=”TEXT” estimate_time=”3 HOURS”]
Description
Provides an analysis of the legal aspects of healthcare delivery and the impact on healthcare institutions. Students examine tort law, professional liability, cost controls, liability insurance, antitrust, and healthcare access.
Objectives
- Analyze ethical dilemmas in the healthcare environment.
- Examine the sources and classifications of laws.
- Assess the role of laws designed specifically for the healthcare environment.
- Explain the features of managed care and federal assistance programs.
- Examine the rights and responsibilities of the patient, physician, and medical practice.
- Analyze the characteristics of negligence in the healthcare environment.
- Interpret issues concerning the management of health information.
- Explain the purpose, contents, and ownership of the medical record.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Legal aspects of health care administration (Rev: 12th ed.)
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning (2016)
Author: Pozgar, G. D.
ISBN: 978-1-284-06592-3
Price: $92.25
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at bookstore@AU.EDU.GL
[/academia_course_lesson][academia_course_lesson icon_type=”fontawesome” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-file-text” badge=”lecture” title=”MHA 5201: Health Resources and Policy Analysis” icon_tool_tip=”TEXT” estimate_time=”3 HOURS”]
Description
An analysis of public policies impacting healthcare programs, services, organizations, and program accessibility to citizens. Explores health policy generation, legislation, and implementation.
Objectives
- Define health and health policy and make the connection between health policies and health.
- Describe the role and importance of political competence in the pursuit of health.
- Identify the impact of health policy on individuals, organizations and systems, and interest groups.
- Explore and discuss the real world of health policy and the concept of healthy people in 2010.
- Explain the context of policy making, which consists of the political market place, demanders, and suppliers of health policies and the interplay among them.
- Describe the concept of agenda setting as a part of policy formulation and the role of CEOs in agenda setting.
- Discuss the development of legislation and the process from formulation to implementation.
- Identify the cyclical relationship between rule-making and operation and describe the managerial challenges of policy implementation.
- Distinguish policy modification from policy initiation.
- Define policy-making as a cyclical process.
- Explain the role of “incrementalism” in policy-making.
- Ascertain the identity of key structural features of policy modification.
- Recognize and describe the political competences and the advantage of lead time.
- Analyze and interpret public policy environments and the influence they experience by political competence.
- Define the concept of good corporate citizenship.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Scutchfield and Keck’s principles of public health practice (Rev: 4th ed.)
Publisher: Cengage Learning (2017)
Author: Erwin, P. C., & Brownson, R. C.
ISBN: 978-1-28-518263-6
Price: $173.12
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at bookstore@AU.EDU.GL
[/academia_course_lesson][academia_course_lesson icon_type=”fontawesome” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-file-text” badge=”lecture” title=”MHA 6501: Advanced Health Care Management” icon_tool_tip=”TEXT” estimate_time=”3 HOURS”]
Description
An exploration of administrative practice in health care with emphasis on long-term and acute care services. Topics include healthcare structures and systems, managerial processes, operations, planning, marketing, human resources, finance, productivity and control, and the emerging trends in health services.
Objectives
- Compare and contrast health services organizations within the health care system.
- Discuss effective leadership strategies used by healthcare managers in the health services setting to include adaptation and transformation, communication strategies, and conflict resolution.
- Describe methods of managing conflict in the healthcare organization to include, concepts of negotiation, and third-party intervention.
- Relate the concepts of work design, motivation, and information flow.
- Analyze the decision-making process for designing and redesigning organizational structures in health services organizations.
- Explain the role of strategic alliances in enhancing organizational performance.
- Discuss the concept of learning organizations in health services organizations.
- Compare the approaches of quality assurance and quality improvement.
- Analyze strategies to achieve an effective healthcare organization.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Transforming health care leadership: A systems guide to improve patient care, decrease costs, and improve population health
Publisher: Jossey-Bass (2014)
Author: Maccoby, M., Norman, C., Norman, C. J., & Margolies, R.
ISBN: 978-1-118-50563-2
Price: $42.90
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at bookstore@AU.EDU.GL
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