Healthcare Administration

The Healthcare Administration program integrates a framework of general education courses with a health care curriculum that provides the graduate with the foundational knowledge needed to enter today’s challenging and growing health industry, or to improve their skills and knowledge if already in the field.

Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the Healthcare Administration Program will be able to:

• Understand current organizational theory and apply it to contemporary healthcare issues;
• Identify leadership qualities unique to the healthcare professional and show how to apply them in supervisory and managerial situations;
• Recognize current public and community health issues and their impact on healthcare leaders;
• Understand contemporary financial management and economic issues in healthcare and recognize and apply analytical tools to relevant problems;
• Demonstrate problem‐solving and communication skills by applying leadership concepts in an investigative research project.

Programs

• Healthcare Administration, A.S.
• Healthcare Administration, B.S.
• Healthcare Administration, Health Informatics Concentration, B.S.

• Healthcare Administration Minor

Courses

• HCA 1010 (effective Summer 1 2020) - Introduction to Healthcare Administration
• HCA 1010 (until Summer 1 2020) - Organization & Management in Healthcare
• HCA 1020 - Introduction to Healthcare in the U.S.
• HCA 1030 - Introduction to Public and Community Health
• HCA 1040 - Cultural Diversity in Healthcare
• HCA 1060 - Issues in Ethics for Healthcare Administrators
• HCA 2020 - Economics of Healthcare
• HCA 2030 - Marketing for Healthcare
• HCA 2040 - Long Term Care
• HCA 3010 - Financial Management in Healthcare
• HCA 3020 - Health Informatics
• HCA 3030 - Health Plans and Insurance
• HCA 3040 - Outcomes Assessment and Quality Management
• HCA 3050 - Clinical Data and Electronic Health Records
• HCA 4030 - Managerial Accounting for Healthcare
• HCA 4060 - Privacy and Security in Health Informatics