27 courses with the subject HEA, 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.
HEA 100Healthcare and Foundations1
Healthcare+ will create experiences in numerous areas of the healthcare field, allowing students to explore a number of career areas and begin to build the relationships that can serve as a foundation for their future. The course will enable students to receive initial exposure to Healthcare Science skills and attitudes applicable to the healthcare industry. The focus of this class will be the impacts of healthcare disparity and how it will impact future careers and the students’ individual career development. Note: This course can be repeated once.
This course introduces fundamentals of medical insurance and billing. Emphasis is placed on the medical billing cycle to include third party payers, coding concepts, and form preparation. Upon completion, students should be able to explain the life cycle of and accurately complete a medical insurance claim.
A continuation of the Healthcare+ program, this course builds upon the initial exposure to Healthcare Science skills and attitudes applicable to the healthcare industry. The focus of this class will be the impacts of medical ethics on decision making and how it will impact future careers and the students’ individual career development. Note: This course can be repeated once.
This course provides students a foundation in health and information literacy for students majoring in allied health professions. It will include an overview of allied health and the value of a multidisciplinary team to partner with clients to optimize health outcomes. Topics to be covered include an overview of the U.S. health care system, inter-professional education, behavioral health integration, social determinants of health, cultural competency, practice transformation, and current and emerging health issues. Note: This course serves as the Gateway course for the Healthcare Administration and Healthcare Promotion majors. A grade of C- or higher is required for graduation.
Today’s society appears to have a genuine concern for living a healthful lifestyle and those issues and practices which will promote this form of healthy living. This course will help students to understand the issues for promoting healthy living and aid in clarifying values related to healthful practices and topics.
This course emphasizes ICD-10-PCS which is an entirely different classification system based on the essential components of a procedure. Under the new system, codes are built from a number of variables, including body system, root operation, body part, approach, and more. And, in some cases, multiple codes may be needed to describe each of the specific components of a procedure or service. Upon completion, students should be able to properly code procedures and services performed in a medical facility.
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.
This is an entry level course in the study of the official coding rules, guidelines, and classification systems for assigning valid diagnostic and/or procedure codes utilizing ICD-10-CM. Students will abstract health information according to regulatory guidelines for acute hospital coding. Emphasis is placed on ICD coding system. Upon completion, students should be able to properly code diagnoses in a medical facility.
HEA 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.
Today’s society appears to have a genuine concern for living a healthful lifestyle and those issues and practices which will promote this form of healthy living. This course will help students to understand the issues for promoting healthy living and aid in clarifying values related to healthful practices and topics. Spring.
Inactivity is a primary factor in the explosion of individuals who are either overweight or obese. This course will focus on the fitness concepts and activities teachers use in K-12 schools that address poor fitness levels, fitness testing methods, and data collection. HPE majors will undergo a complete fitness test and analyze the results using the standards for adult individuals. Majors will develop personal fitness goals and a plan to achieve or maintain appropriate levels of fitness. An emphasis is placed on planning appropriate learning tasks, developing individual fitness goals and plans, and organizing school- wide events to improve fitness levels of K-12th grade students.
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.
This course provides an introduction to the theoretical basis of behavior change in health education. It will include an overview of what theory is, how theories are developed, and what factors influence health behavior theory. Emphasis will be placed on how various theories of health behavior are used to design, implement, and evaluate behavior change and health education interventions.
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.
HEA 360Healthcare Leadership and Inter-Professional
Communication. (3 semester hours) This course provides students 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.
This course focuses on effective instruction of current healthful living content in a meaningful and relevant manner to secondary students. A 35-hour supervised Teaching Lab provides opportunity to work with middle and high school students in a classroom setting. Courses of Instruction: Health and Physical Education
HEA 401Contemporary Issues in Health and Medicine. 3
This course will introduce students to current issues and controversies in medicine and health. The course will take a biopsychosocial approach of relating to health and medicine in which the biological, psychological, and social aspects of health and medicine are studied in contrast to the strictly biomedical aspects of disease. Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge from a biopsychosocial perspective in such areas as preventive medicine, chronic disease, stress, and aging. Additionally, contemporary, and at times controversial, health issues such as health insurance, access to health care and malpractice will be discussed to facilitate the student’s ability to think critically and articulate effectively with peers. Note: This course serves as the Summit course for the Health Promotion major. A grade of C- or higher is required for graduation.
HEA 440Principles of Financial Management for Healthcare3
Healthcare financial management draws heavily from financial accounting, managerial accounting, finance and economics. This course specifically focuses on learning and applying key financial and managerial accounting tools and concepts to healthcare problems. It provides a broad introduction to key concepts, issues, tools, and vocabulary useful both for policy makers and administrators. Topics include: healthcare financial statements, recording transactions, financial statement analysis, full costing, differential costing, budgeting, and responsibility accounting. The course uses a number of cases and focuses upon both analytics and communication skills.
This course provides an overview of program planning and evaluation for allied health professionals. Students will gain a basic understanding of how to implement public health programs and evaluate their effectiveness. Given the importance of planning and evaluation occurring in the context of interdisciplinary teams, students in this course will also discuss and practice skills for building effective teams and accomplishing individual and group objectives through team work.
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), disparaties 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. Note: This course serves as the Summit course for the Healthcare Administration major. A grade of C- or higher is required for graduation.
HEA 455Health System Organization Development and Behavior3
This course examines leadership and organizational behavior through a systematic, integrative analysis of individual and group leadership and management techniques, through an understanding of diverse patient populations and healthcare organizational environments. Students will also develop a basic
HEA 465Continuous Quality Improvement in Healthcare3
This course explores the concept of Quality and the process of Quality Improvement across the healthcare continuum, through a focus on the history and evolution of quality, its terms, principles, theories, and practices. The student is introduced to a diverse collection of methods of improving quality, including, but not limited to continuous Quality Improvement and Total Quality Management, and to the guidelines for implementing quality management and the continuous quality improvement processes. Additionally, students will apply Six Sigma methodology to a healthcare scenario to create a safe, timely, effective, equitable, efficient, and patient-centered outcome.
This course allows students to apply the knowledge, skills and abilities, learned in their area of professional study, and utilize them in real-world situations. HEA 470 can be accomplished through a 120 contact hour real-world practicum, completion of independent research, creation of a performance improvement project (based upon real world events), or completion of additional advanced training and education in the field that meets the course and program outcomes. All practicums and projects will focus on developing leadership skills, management skills, and systematic problem/issue analysis skills through direct participation in management activities in a business or health-related organization, either simulated or real.
Individual research problems in the theory and/or practice of Health Services, chosen by the student, with the approval of the sponsoring faculty member.
