12 courses with the subject HCA, 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.
HCA 501Healthcare Economics3
This course provides an understanding of the impact of healthcare policy on the costs and consequences of healthcare delivery and finance. By recognizing the relevance of economics to health and medical care and applying economic reasoning to better understand health related issues, students will gain an understanding of the mechanisms of healthcare delivery in the United States within broad social, political, and economic contexts.
This course presents an overview of the legal issues facing the healthcare industry. It provides students with an advance and current working knowledge of health law. It is a comprehensive and inclusive review of a wide variety of healthcare legal issues. The case studies are provided with a realistic knowledge of health law and its application to the real world.
This course provides students with the understanding of human resources management functions in healthcare organizations. Concepts and issues regarding organizational strategy, behavior and design; healthcare workforce and human resource culture; workforce diversity and leadership development, and recruitment, selection, training, development, and retention of staff are discussed.
This course examines the fundamental principles of research methodology, including the scientific method, literature review, sampling, statistics, research design and analytical technique. It provides framework for models and structures around health services research, defines the different types of research, and offers an in-depth analysis of research design, sampling, data collection, measuring statistical analysis, and application or research findings.
This course is designed to study the fundamental concepts and skills necessary to succeed as managers in an increasingly competitive employment environment, by applying quantitative skills in financial management. Topics include an overview of financial management, the organization of financial management, third-party payers and payment methodologies, management and financing of working capital, strategic financial and operational planning, financial analysis, and an analysis of trends that will affect healthcare organizations in the future, including healthcare cost projections.
This course is designed to provide a thorough understanding of leadership, leadership practice, and skill development. The course provides an opportunity to assume varying roles within case situations and reflect on managerial and professional situations. Topical coverage includes traits, motives, and characteristics of leaders, leadership behaviors, attitudes, and styles, leadership ethics and social responsibility, communication and conflict resolution skills, knowledge management, vision and strategy creation, and effective leadership in international and culturally diverse settings.
This course is designed to explore the foundational concepts of health informatics and the common framework for building more effective informatics capabilities. Concepts related to bioinformatics, medical and nursing informatics, public health informatics, and health systems informatics are presented, with a focus on health informatics as the basis for interprofessionalism and collaboration.
HCA 509Performance Improvement And Risk Management3
This course presents the fundamental principles of quality, foundations of quality management, tools, and techniques for quality and how these interrelate with organizational performance. Students are introduced to quality improvement theories, frameworks to assess and manage performance, building customer-focused organizations, assessment of workforce effectiveness, satisfaction and engagement, the use of statistical methods in quality management, and assessing, building, and sustaining performance excellence.
HCA 510Strategic Planning And Marketing In Healthcare3
This course provides a comprehensive overview of strategic concepts and how skillful strategic planning implementation is crucial to organizational success. Based on contemporary strategic theories, the course places emphasis on the application of strategic principles and evaluates the different plans that can be used to achieve an organization’s mission and vision, including strategic plans, goals and objectives, project charters, marketing plans, and business plans. 99
This course provides students with a comprehensive perspective of the health care system by offering a thorough understanding of patient-centered care through evaluation of various health aspects. It examines components of patient-centered clinical methods by analyzing the interrelationship between health, disease, and illness. Students learn about team approaches to build and maintain effective healthcare teams and their impact on patient outcomes. Various learning and teaching methods are employed to enhance a learner-centered approach in physician development. Furthermore, qualitative methodologies and mixed-method approaches are used to design strategies for patient-centered care. The course also focuses on building quality systems through innovative practice improvement.
Under the supervision of an assigned faculty mentor/supervisor, students will have the opportunity to summarize the concepts, skills and processes learned to formulate a proposal, evaluation or discussion that relates to a healthcare institution. The primary focus can be on a public and private institution, and analyses with external constituencies are encouraged. Organizational, human resources, and financial issues are discussed, and proposed strategies for improvement are presented and defended. Through an experiential learning opportunity, students will apply concepts learned throughout their educational process through a formal project that is relevant to the students’ area of interest. Journals, papers, discussions, and interviews documenting the conceptualization, implementation, and delivery of the project under the supervision of a departmental faculty member are required.
