10 courses with the subject HCM, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
HCM 4015Public Health AUO
Public health is often an under-appreciated and underfunded contributor to robust population health. Public health issues engage political, economic, philosophical, moral, and religious questions that are universally relevant. This class examines public health history, concepts, and contemporary challenges. Students will explore the social constructs of health, examining the interplay of culture, community, economic, environmental, and political forces that shape health globally. Students will study how the social determinants of health outcomes and how these determinants contribute to health disparities and inequities.
This course introduces students to the concepts of culture and cultural diversity as they relate to health, illness, and the healthcare delivery system. There are many types of diversity, including but not limited to, religious, racial, ethnic, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic, disability, and regional. Students will examine the role that belief systems, values, and health practices play in people’s interactions with health providers, and common myths and assumptions will be explored. Students will investigate strategies that healthcare professionals can implement to create services that are more inclusive.
This course builds foundational understanding of the use of management systems in healthcare deliveries. Students will determine what management systems best align with an organization’s mission. Application studies on both Lean and TQM management styles will be completed. This course also requires students to explore how managers build teams in highly regulated environments and ensure the processes for completing work are practical, compliant, and efficient. Included in the Traditional Undergraduate tuition block.
Students will learn strategies for building high-quality, high context teams centered on quality healthcare delivery. An assessment of how existing organizations integrate vision and values in to their care menu and delivery modalities will be required. This course is designed to help students formulate and articulate their own healthcare leadership principles, in both the stewardship of resources and the management of staff. Information interviews will create a platform for experiential and market-place relevant learning in this course. Included in the Traditional Undergraduate tuition block.
This course is designed to give students an understanding of the common legal and ethical issues in healthcare delivery. Students will evaluate cases to better their understanding of informed consent, as it relates to existing conditions, risks, and cost. Students will learn and assess various risk mitigation techniques for human resource, technology, and malpractice liabilities. The positive and negative aspects of corporate governance, community, state, and federal accountability systems in healthcare will be explored. Included in the Traditional Undergraduate tuition block.
This course explores the management of healthcare operations within the constraints of regulation and policy. Students will assess the advantages and disadvantages of operating under nonprofit and for- profit guidelines. Additionally, students will explore how mission and vision intersect with effective management of teams. Case study and practicum will allow students to analyze managerial systems, such as TQM and Lean, to formulate recommendations for improvement of both internal and external operations.
This course is designed to create a foundation for students to create strategies in casting vision and articulating missions that develop cultures centered on competency, compliance, quality, and sounds ethics. This is an application heavy class in which corporate leaders in local healthcare organizations will address the challenges in building healthcare organizations that deliver high quality care and maintain attractive cultures. Students will be required to analyze the healthcare philosophies of current leaders and develop their own philosophy of healthcare delivery, management, and leadership in a capstone Professional Values Statement.
This course explores the legal and ethical constraints in healthcare management. Students will critical analyze cases to identify areas of potential liability and problem solve to mitigate threats. Students will develop of understanding of applying legal policy to improve quality and facilitate good stewardship of financial and operational resources. Students will apply critical thinking to ethical cases to better understand how healthcare organizations must balance ethical behavior with other obligations, such as corporate governance and social responsibility. . . . .
