8 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 240Medical Terminology1
This course is designed to develop student’s cognitive understanding and practical application of the medical language used by allied health professionals. The course will focus on acquiring word-building skills by learning prefixes, suffixes, roots, abbreviations, and combining forms. The course will require students to correctly define, interpret, and pronounce medical terms relating to anatomical structure and function, pathology, diagnosis, clinical procedures and documentation used in medical reports and varying forms of communication. A body systems approach will be utilized and common abbreviations applicable to each system will be interpreted.
HCA 250Introduction to the U.S. Healthcare System3
This course provides students with an overview of the U.S. healthcare finance and delivery systems. Students will also explore the history and development of the role of public programs (e.g., Medicare and Medicaid), insurers, and employers, the growing role of technology in healthcare, balancing cost, access and quality, as well as the future of U.S. healthcare.
Medical Practice Management is a comprehensive introductory course in the management of medical and dental practices. Types of practices and roles of personnel within the practice are introduced and professional skills competency are emphasized. Financial applications, customer service, teamwork, and marketing are explored along with their importance to the quality delivery of care and financial success of the practice.
Health Informatics is the multidisciplinary scientific field concerned with the acquisition, storage, retrieval, communication, and optimal use of health information for problem solving and decision- making. Health Informatics has as its driving goals the improvement of health and healthcare and the advancement of the biomedical and health sciences. Other names often used for this broad field include Medical Informatics or Biomedical Informatics.
and Inter-Professional Communication. (3 semester hours) This course provides students with the tools needed to develop the skills needed to build relationships with multidisciplinary health colleagues. Students will explore, and model, the leadership skills, management styles, and communication skills needed to collaborate across disciplines and cultures. Additionally, this course will allow students to comprehend the context and the relationships that make up the systems they will impact during their careers, whether at the individual, organizational, or community level.
The purpose of this course is to provide students with an overview of the U.S. healthcare system, its components, and the policy challenges created by its organization. Special attention will be given to the status and implementation of state and federal policy and law and to the budgetary implications of healthcare spending more broadly. The major health policy institutions and important issues that cut across institutions, including private insurers and the federal/state financing programs (Medicare and Medicaid/SCHIP), disparities in access to care, the role of pharmaceuticals in healthcare and the pricing and regulation of the pharmaceutical industry, the quality of care, the challenges of long-term care and the aging of the population, and the drivers of cost growth will be studied.
and Behavior. (3 semester hours) This course provides a systemic and integrative analysis of leadership and organizational behavior in healthcare. Students will explore individual and group leadership techniques, management principles, and the dynamics of diverse patient populations and healthcare organizations. Emphasis will be placed on applying major theories, ethical considerations, and legal frameworks to enhance organizational performance.
This course is designed to merge the practice of continuous quality improvement (CQI) into organizational development and the application within the healthcare setting. CQI is used by hos- pitals to optimize clinical care by reducing variability and reducing costs, to help meet regulatory requirements, and to enhance customer service quality. MBA Foundation Courses - Topic Preparation Peregrine Academic Services provides a range of online educational services which focus on business skills, including Academic Leveling Courses (ACL). ACL topics include: • Foundations of Accounting • Foundations of Business Finance • Foundations of Information Management Systems • Foundations of Macroeconomics • Foundations of Microeconomics • Foundations of Operations / Production Management • Foundations of Quantitative Research Techniques and Statistics • Write and Cite - Academic Writing Readiness The ACL service helps students succeed with their business programs by providing foundational knowledge and skills in a broad range of business education topic areas. The ACL service provides non-business majors, or students needing to refresh their knowledge, with the necessary business education fundamentals to complete undergraduate or advanced degrees.
