14 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 310US Healthcare3
This course looks at the US healthcare system and the services needed to care for the United States population. This course explores the history, development, structure and current forces that have transformed the healthcare delivery system. Topics may include health insurance, physician practice and payment, ambulatory care and alternative delivery systems, mental health and long- term care, hospital services and DRGs, doctor-patient relationship, medical technology, and the future of the US healthcare system.
In this course, students will evaluate national and international health care delivery systems. Course themes include the regulatory environment, daily operations, recruitment and selection, and training. Students will explore the dynamics of health care system delivery, which include supply and demand, sociocultural influences, and politics. Students will develop a cross-cultural understanding of health care delivery through assignments, readings, and interactions with health care practitioners.
This course serves as an introduction to economic, financial, and accounting concepts for healthcare providers. Emphasis will be on the market mechanism of supply and demand of health services, budgeting practices, financial statement analysis, and the influence of third-party payers on the revenues and costs of healthcare delivery systems.
The Human Resource Management function is an important healthcare administrative skill set. The recruitment of trained and credentialed healthcare professionals and staff is a primary job responsibility of healthcare administrators. While human resources is a complex discipline, healthcare administrators need to have strong working knowledge of organizational development, training, and performance management, employee and labor relations, selection and recruitment and compensation and benefits. As such, this course will emphasize the strategic role of human resources and the influence of legal compliance on this business activity.
This course will provide a framework for developing and analyzing a range of health policy issues as well as a comprehensive introduction to public health concepts and practices. This course will also address important health issues and problems facing the public health system. Case studies and a variety of practice-related exercises serve as a basis for learner participation in real world public health problem-solving simulations. The various components of these courses aim to stimulate interactions among learners and instructors around important problems and issues facing public health. This course will also provide an orientation to the ethical foundations of public health research and identify resources for encouraging the ethical practice of public health. The College of Westchester 112
This course provides an overview of the aging population, implications for individuals, families, and society, and the background for health policy related to the aging population. This course presents an overview of aging from the perspective of demographics, functional capacity and disability, epidemiology of diseases in the elderly, federal and state health policies affecting the elderly, social aspects of aging, and the ethical considerations in the care of the elder population.
This course describes long-term delivery programs designed to meet the special needs of seniors. It will review care and service systems from the perspective of an aging population including the physiological and psychological changes common among seniors. The purpose of this course is to acquaint students with the dynamic field of long-term care. This course helps students examine the issues, challenges, and dilemmas confronting long term care management and others in the field of long-term health services.
This course provides an in-depth analysis of continuous quality improvement, utilization management, and risk management in healthcare. This course also examines the role of the patient in CQI and how government, regulatory, and professional pressure have affected the delivery of quality healthcare.
HCA 440Legal and Ethical Management of Health Information3
Students discover and discuss local, state, and federal laws, regulatory mandates, healthcare policies and practices relative to health information. Students will be introduced and explore the concepts of confidentiality, ethics, healthcare legislation, and regulations related to the maintenance and use of health information.
THIS COURSE IS FOR DAY DIVISION STUDENTS – GROUND PROGRAM ONLY The Internship is a capstone course involving the culmination project in the Healthcare Services Administration BBA program. It will provide students an opportunity to demonstrate they have achieved the goals for learning established within the program. The Internship course integrates coursework, knowledge, skills, and practical learning to enable the student to demonstrate a broad mastery of learning across the curriculum for future employability and further career advancement.
The internship course must be taken in the final two semesters of a student’s degree program.
HCA 470APreparation Workshop for BBA Health Care Administration Internship Non-Credit
THIS COURSE IS FOR EVENING DIVISION STUDENTS – GROUND PROGRAM ONLY This course is a non-credit workshop which occurs in the term prior to the BBA HealthCare Administration Internship assignment. The purpose of this workshop is to complete the internship site selection process, which may entail a formal interview with the prospective site supervisor. Students must complete this workshop in order to enroll in the HCA470B – BBA HealthCare Administration Internship. to a student’s enrollment in HCA470B.
The Workshop course must be taken in the final five terms of a student’s degree program and must be completed prior
HCA 470BBBA Health Care Administration Internship3
THIS COURSE IS FOR EVENING DIVISION STUDENTS – GROUND PROGRAM ONLY This course is a continuation of HCA470A. The Internship is the capstone course for the BBA in Healthcare Services Administration. Students will be placed in a workplace setting where they will have the opportunity to apply their skills and knowledge to typical tasks they may encounter in actual employment. They will be expected to report to and/or communicate with their worksites as if they were employees and will be subject to supervision, coaching, performance feedback, and responsibility for assignments appropriate to their preparation and employee level. Work schedules will be combined with class meetings. The first meeting will be jointly conducted by professors from Career Development Services and the Allied Health Department. The purpose of these classes is to reflect upon Internship experiences and assignments, review and discuss journal entries, organize thoughts, ideas, and materials for the internship paper, receive and offer support to fellow internship students, gain greater self-awareness of one’s preparation and readiness for work using their skill set.
HCA470A. The Internship course must be taken in the final four terms of a student’s degree program.
HCA 480Health Administration Capstone Course3
(ONLINE PROGRAM ONLY) This course brings together many of the theories and applications introduced throughout the BBA in Health Administration program. The course affords students the opportunity to apply all of the acquired knowledge and skills necessary for them to perform effective managerial applications relative to the health care field. Students will review various case studies, perform comparative analyses, and conduct field research to examine the challenges facing healthcare decision making based on an individual’s socioeconomic status. An individual’s socioeconomic status may include the administration of care for the aging population.
