Master of Healthcare Administration
The degree is a 39-credit hour program that includes a 4 credit hour Capstone Research Project. It is offered in cohort format, allowing classroom work to be completed in 18 months.
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Term 1
MHA 601 Information to Technology in Healthcare
This course introduces students to the application of current technologies to strategic organizational goals in healthcare. The course moves students from a rudimentary knowledge of information systems as a general supporting infrastructure for common organizational processes, to the specifics of strategic information system use and application. Course discussion centers on the use of the Internet as a research tool, the use of the Cyber-Active platform, and it elaborates on future applications of technological development.
MHA 647 Leadership and Team Development in Healthcare
The critical role that leaders face in realizing change within complex organizations is a focus in this course. Students will be exposed to a set of skills critical to guiding the organization to a successful future, including creative problem solving and innovation. In this course, the development of teams within the industry, including skills such as collaboration, conflict management, empowering others, program development and evaluation, is examined.
MHA 623 Legal, Ethical & Compliance Issues in Healthcare
This course presents and analyzes the myriad of healthcare laws and legal and compliance issues associated with managing and leading healthcare organizations. The complexity of ethical issues, both administrative and biomedical, is addressed through applied problem-solving methods.
Term 2
MHA 625 Organizational Design & Delivery Systems in Healthcare
This course analyzes healthcare organizations with an emphasis on organizational structure and strategy. Topics discussed include governance, adaptation, design, networks, and organizational performance. The issue of cost, access, and quality within healthcare configurations, integrated systems, and collaborated networks, are addressed.
MHA 610 Evaluation Research for Healthcare
In this course, an understanding of appropriate research methods, including the literature search, experimental design, evaluation methods, and report development, is provided. Practical research problems are discussed and management studies are conducted in applied settings.
MHA 605 Applied Data Management in Healthcare
This course examines methods for practical application of descriptive statistics and exposes students to the basic principles of inferential statistics. The course presents a variety of statistical tests, along with their intended applications, and introduces students to a statistical software package.
MHA 680 Capstone Project
This is the culminating experience of the formal course of study. During formal coursework, participants are engaged in addressing a work-related organizational problem under the tutelage of an experienced instructor. The capstone project provides opportunity to demonstrate application of theory to a specific real-life problem in healthcare. The course is continued in terms three, four, and five with one credit earned each term. One instructor is dedicated to this course for all three terms to help the student develop his/her capstone project.
Term 3
MHA 630 Quality Management in Healthcare Operations
A general systems perspective and introduction to the team management skills necessary to integrate quality management strategies are examined in this course. The course examines methods to assist organizations with rapid response to healthcare quality challenges.
MHA 660 Healthcare Finance and Economics
An introduction to finance, including management control process, financial statement analysis, ratio analysis, variance analysis, and capital structure, is the focus of this course. Students also will receive an introduction to the economics of today's healthcare environment.
MHA 675 Human Resource Management in Healthcare
An overview of human resource management practices in healthcare organizations are provided in this course. The course examines changing work force demographics, work design and reengineering, emerging technologies, and personnel law and regulations.
MHA 680 Capstone Project
This is the culminating experience of the formal course of study. During formal coursework, participants are engaged in addressing a work-related organizational problem under the tutelage of an experienced instructor. The capstone project provides opportunity to demonstrate application of theory to a specific real-life problem in healthcare. The course is continued in terms three, four, and five with one credit earned each term. One instructor is dedicated to this course for all three terms to help the student develop his/her capstone project.
Term 4
MHA 665 Decision Support Systems in Healthcare Administration
This course applies principles and techniques of decision making to the solution of a variety of health-related problems. The course explores the use of information technology through quantitative and qualitative analysis in decision making, and assists students in the development and application of data gathering and information retrieval systems.
MHA 670 Strategic Visioning for Healthcare Organizations
This course assesses the leadership challenges for healthcare organizations in the context of global healthcare trends, the local market, and the challenges and opportunities of the individual organization. Course emphasis will be placed on the importance of integrating these challenges and opportunities into the organizational strategic planning process.
MHA 680 Capstone Project
This is the culminating experience of the formal course of study. During formal coursework, participants are engaged in addressing a work-related organizational problem under the tutelage of an experienced instructor. The capstone project provides opportunity to demonstrate application of theory to a specific real-life problem in healthcare. The course is continued in terms three, four, and five with one credit earned each term. One instructor is dedicated to this course for all three terms to help the student develop his/her capstone project.
MHA 690 Professional Practicum
The practicum follows completion of all formal course work and the capstone project. It provides opportunity for hands-on participation in implementing and agreed upon project, preferably in the student's own healthcare organization, under the advisement of an agreed upon mentor in the organization.