15 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 500Introduction to Healthcare Management and Practice3
Students will learn the foundational theories, concepts, and frameworks that shape healthcare systems in the United States to provide students with tools to identify and create solutions to complex health problems. In addition, this course will introduce the main themes of healthcare management and practice, including leadership, care delivery, professional roles and responsibilities, healthcare reform, finance, operations, insurance, and quality. Knowledge from this course will prepare students for critical thinking and analysis of healthcare issues throughout other courses in the Healthcare Administration program.
This course provides a basic understanding of the foundational areas of health policy, law, and justice. Key areas include policymaking and advocacy, the role of government in creating health laws and policies, and individual rights and protections that influence access to services and goods. Students will examine and analyze how law and policy structure injustices that harm health and drive population health inequities. Students will review current literature, data, laws, policies, and case studies to identify and develop solutions for addressing structural and political barriers to health-promoting opportunities .
This course surveys the activities and decision-making functions of the human resources manager, including personnel planning, recruitment, interviewing, training and development, compensation practices, benefits administration, maintaining personnel records, employee communication, labor relations and succession planning, with an emphasis on the legal dimensions of these various activities. Attention is also drawn to the professional and legal responsibilities of the individual manager or team leader in matters such as employee rights, privacy, sexual harassment, discrimination in the workplace, employee evaluations, workers' compensation and recruitment of personnel. This comprehensive review occurs from the unique perspective of the health services organization.
This course is designed as an in-depth study of the major topics in health care economics. We will study the production, cost, and financing of health care services, delivery mechanisms and their effects, health labor markets and professional training, and use of economic evaluation tools (cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses) in making decisions about allocation of scarce resources. The overall goal of HCA 504 is to teach the students to understand how the framework of economics can be applied to health care markets.
This course presents foundational theories and applications of social epidemiology. Students will learn to identify and describe how social and structural drivers contribute to disease etiology, course, and the distribution of health states in populations. Students will explore socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, neighborhood environment, human behavior, and the criminal justice system to understand the theoretical concepts and underpinnings of their influence on population health outcomes. Students will develop successful interventions leading to improved health behaviors, reinforce social control, and create opportunities for improved health and coping strategies .
This course is designed as a comprehensive introduction to the financial management function in the context of health care organizations. In addition to basic finance and accounting concepts, topics covered include the concepts of health insurance and third-party reimbursement, cost concepts and decision analysis, budgeting requirements, long-term financing, capital budgeting and risk, and financial and operating analyses. The course will integrate corporate finance and accounting theories, institutional knowledge of health care finance, and applications to specific real-world problems. Students will work toward earning the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) Business of Health Care® Certificate.
HCA 511Quantitative Business Methods for Healthcare3
This course will provide a comprehensive overview of selected research and quantitative methods used in conducting health services research. The course will address all phases of the research process, from generating research questions and hypotheses, to study design, sampling, measurement, data collection, and data analyses. Proper use of statistical methods and computer applications for secondary data analysis will also be covered.
This course is designed to expose students to the kinds of ethical issues and problems they will encounter as healthcare administrators, in particular issues and problems involved in managing a healthcare organization’s relationships with its many publics. The course focuses on concrete cases as well as theory and emphasizes policy formulation. The course also attends to the principal process for coming to terms with ethical issues and problems in a healthcare context: namely, consultation with an ethics committee, which students will be charged with devising and simulating at the semester’s end .
HCA 570Essentials of Population Health Management3
The course provides students a foundation in population health management, including addressing how health access, health disparities, social determinants of health, and cultural competency contribute to beneficial and adverse effects on population, community, and family and individual health. Students will explore the principles of population health management that guide health care professionals and policymakers to analyze current healthcare challenges and design possible solutions to improving and/or managing the health of the populations they serve .
This course introduces students to traditional marketing principles applied to planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating social marketing campaigns and strategies that simultaneously focus on creating business and societal value. Through developing a social marketing plan, the course provides an in-depth understanding of how marketing principles can be applied to bring about behavioral change for the social good .
This course emphases the development of skills around managing the operational processes in the field of health primarily directed to improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of health care services. The course focuses on the use of quantitative methods to address complex operational issues and realistic problems. The quantitative approach to decision making is balanced with discussions of qualitative issues such as the role of values, beliefs, power, and other aspects of decision-making .
HCA 595Leadership and Executive Skills for Healthcare Managers3
This course focuses on a value-added and process-centered method of goal attainment. Topics include leadership theories, culture, human resources management, contingency and transformational theories, communication skills, mentorship, and team building and change theories.
HCA 596Leadership for Quality Management in Healthcare3
This course introduces health care quality tools and concepts. Students will review the current population health tools, measures, and applications to assess health care quality and improvement. This course will provide students with foundational tools and knowledge to assess quality measures, interpret quality improvement data, lead quality improvement processes, and understand the impact of quality measurements and indicator settings on areas such as safety, patient experience, and accreditation .
Designed to assist students in the transition from theory to practice. Emphasis on sharpening analytical and intuitive leadership practices through the use of interactive case studies, team building exercises and field projects.
HCA 599Health Care Administration Internship (3 or6
An internship provides students with administrative experience in a health service agency. Internships with a health-care facility may be substituted for one elective course. The internship is coordinated through the Career Planning and Placement Office. Permission of the director of the Health Care Administrative Program is required. Master of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics (MSND)
