13 courses with the subject MHA, 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.
MHA 500Essentials of Healthcare Delivery3
Essentials of Healthcare Delivery: Organization and Leadership: Explore the dynamic, complex world of healthcare delivery by analyzing, evaluating, and challenging the structures, financing, and leadership models that shape care delivery. You will actively investigate the issues of access, cost, equity, and quality through a health system analysis to critically evaluate operations and outcomes of the health system. Healthcare workers are a critical component of the care delivery system and students will examine career opportunities and professional growth.
Organizational Behavior in Healthcare Organizations: This course provides students with an opportunity to explore organizational theory and behavior within the context of the healthcare environment. This course provides an analysis of how a mission of care and service impact corporate culture, interaction, and behavior within a healthcare organization. Health care organizations will be viewed from the societal, organizational, group, professional, and individual levels. In this course, students will focus on practical applications of theories and concepts of behavior within health care organizations. Pre-requisite MHA 500. (Offered Fall, Spring Summer)
Healthcare Operations Management: Develop knowledge and skills with a comprehensive introduction to healthcare management and operations with a strong emphasis on the financial foundations that drive organizational performance. Students will develop practical skills in managing the financial processes integral to revenue cycle management, gaining insight into how healthcare organizations capture, manage, and optimize revenue to support high quality care delivery. Through applied exercises, data analysis, and case studies— students will evaluate real world operational scenarios and use information to inform sound business decisions. A significant focus is placed on solving operational and financial problems commonly faced by healthcare managers. Emphasis is placed on the use of Microsoft Excel to calculate, manage, and analyze data.
Fundamentals of Financial Management for Healthcare: This foundational course serves as the first of a two-course sequence and introduces the accounting and financial management principles essential to healthcare and health service organizations. Emphasis is placed on increasing financial literacy and developing the analytical skills required to understand and evaluate an organization’s financial position using financial statement and the relationships between the financial statements. Students examine foundational financial concepts, including budgeting, cost determination, revenue and expense structures, and reimbursement methodologies used across the healthcare industry. Through applied exercises using Microsoft Excel software, case studies, and financial analysis activities, students explore key business practices and learn how financial data informs operational and strategic decision making in healthcare settings.
Financial Analysis for Healthcare: Building on the finance fundamentals, this course extends the competencies attained and equips students to evaluate financial performance. With a 239
Quality Management for Healthcare Organizations: High quality and patient safety are central tenets of healthcare delivery. To reach these goals we examine the quality of care delivery, patient safety, and patient experience in the US. Effective healthcare leaders understand the importance of approaches through quality management, quality assurance, and quality improvement. These topics are examined from a strategic viewpoint with the goal of providing healthcare administrators with the skills and knowledge to be effective drivers of quality, safety, and patient experience improvement. Using quality improvement (QI) techniques such as performance measurement, rapid cycle testing, and collaboration students will develop an improvement initiative.
Managerial Epidemiology for Population Health: The principles and applications of managerial epidemiology serve as a foundation for effective population health management. The course emphasizes techniques for calculating, interpreting, and evaluating measures of disease frequency, association, and risk. Students will apply these methods to real world datasets to assess population health needs, identify disparities, evaluate performance, and support organizational strategy. Students will develop data driven insights and use data visualization to clearly present results to stakeholders. Through hands on assignments and case based analysis, students learn to communicate evidence based recommendations that guide decisions related to quality improvement, resource allocation, service planning, population health management, and value-based care.
Clinical Issues in Health Services Management: This course allows students to gain clinical knowledge and competencies in areas important to stakeholders’ in healthcare organizations. Students will analyze the effects of environment, policies, insurance, and reimbursement on physicians, patients, healthcare workers, managers, administrators, and employers. Relationships, expectations, outcomes, social media, technologies, and health literacy are included as part of the environment. Pre-requisite MHA 625. (Offered Fall, Spring, Summer)
Healthcare Economics and Policy: Understanding health policy and economics is crucial for healthcare managers and leaders to analyze policy challenges and contribute meaningfully to policy discussions and decision making. Grounded in core economic theory, the course examines how providers, payers, and consumers behave within healthcare markets and how incentives, market structures, pricing, and supply and demand dynamics shape system performance. Students apply these
Healthcare Law and Ethics: This course explores the legal, political, social, and ethical issues encountered by healthcare professionals and organizations. Topics include government regulation of healthcare providers, patient consent, human reproduction, privacy, confidentiality, tax-exemption, antitrust, inurnment, fraud, abuse, abortion, terminal care, mental health, health information management, and individual vs. society benefit. Students will analyze legal and ethical healthcare resources by engaging in interactive discussions and informative research.
Healthcare Informatics and Innovation: This course introduces the fundamental concepts, applications, and emerging trends in health information technology and healthcare informatics such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. Students examine how information systems support strategic decision making, project management, population health, and patient care. Emphasis is placed on real world case studies involving clinical decision support, surveillance systems, imaging, simulation, and patient safety technologies. The course also incorporates healthcare innovation principles, exploring how digital health tools, analytics, and technology driven solutions transform care delivery and organizational performance. Legal and ethical considerations, including security, confidentiality, governance, and informed consent—are addressed, along with methods for evaluating and reporting on system effectiveness.
MHA Capstone and Strategic Planning: Interpreting complex organizational, financial, and community level insights are essential for high quality, efficient healthcare delivery. Serving as the culminating experience of the graduate program, this capstone course guides students through the development of a comprehensive strategic plan that synthesizes and integrates the full range of knowledge and skills gained throughout their studies. A core component of the project includes conducting a financial condition analysis to assess organizational stability, identify risks, and guide long term strategic direction. Emphasis is placed on integrating leadership, business skills, healthcare knowledge, and data driven decision making into an actionable strategic plan. Students participate in a team project that allows students to integrate program competencies to develop and communicate a professional business presentation for the healthcare industry.
