14 courses with the subject HCM, 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.
HCM 101Introduction to Health Systems3
The course is designed to give students a basic understanding of the health care system in the United States. It describes the basic components of the delivery system, and examines the history and evolution of the system. Trends in health care management, delivery, and financing are analyzed, including a critical analysis of the system, examining its strengths and weaknesses. The features of Medicare and Medicaid programs, including possible future funding scenarios, are thoroughly examined.
This course studies organization theory, behavior and management applied to health-care organizations. Topics include leadership, conflict, organization structure, workgroups, coordination, work design, communication, power, politics, change, strategy, and performance effectiveness.
HCM 205Culture, Diversity, and Inclusion in Global Healthcare3
The course explores health systems in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) and examines approaches to improving the performance of health systems by examining the frameworks, tools, skills, and strategies to understand, influence, and evaluate health systems in LMICs. Areas of study will include cultural aspects of healthcare as well as diversity and inclusion issues for national and local health systems.
HCM 210Emergency Management for Healthcare Institutions3
Coping with a major destructive incident could present an overwhelming number of patients, impact the environment of care and disrupt life in surrounding communities. This course covers preparation, response, and recovery from emergencies and utilizes scenario-based tools to develop processes, policies, and the execution of a hazard vulnerability analysis.
This course focuses on preparing health professionals with the foundational skills needed to work in teams to effectively collaborate and coordinate care in population health management. Particular emphasis will be on identification and stratification of populations at risk, evidence-based care, care coordination, patient and community engagement, and data analytics and reporting of outcomes.
HCM 220Medical Practice and Facilities Management3
This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the management and administration of day-to-day operations of a health professional practice. The course will examine staffing, credentialing, purchasing, facility design, human resources, and regulatory compliance.
This course provides a broad-based overview of the managerial aspects of health care finance, beginning with a brief review of accounting systems in health care institutions. A comprehensive review of health care reimbursement structures is presented for acute care facilities, nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, home health, and hospitals. Cost behavior and cost analysis concepts are examined. Budgeting and internal control, including auditing concepts and techniques, are explored. Service volume financial modeling techniques are explained.
This course is designed to give students a comprehensive understanding of managed care in the United States. It describes the environment leading to the development of managed care, its intended purpose, the types of managed care organizations, strengths and weaknesses of managing care, and its impact on consumers and providers.
In this course the student will develop skills to manage health services organizations from a strategic perspective. It will examine the use of systematic assessment of both the internal and external environment of the organization. Emphasis will be placed on the development of business strategies to meet the needs of multiple markets. Recent successes and failures in the health care industry will be studied.
HCM 406Current Issues and Trends in Health Care Management3
This is an issues-oriented course that examines the health care delivery system in the United States that reviews the entire continuum of care relative to current trends and recent changes in legislation, market forces, and consumer attitudes and preferences. The key issues confronting health care today will be identified, causes will be examined, and reasonable solutions will be proposed and debated.
This course is designed to provide students with a fundamental understanding of entrepreneurship as it relates to the healthcare industry. The course covers the essential components of entrepreneurship that many healthcare organizations now use as a means of survival due to unprecedented competition.
HCM 101 Introduction to Health Systems and HCM 371 Health Care Reimbursement and Finance
HCM 452Health Care Law3
This course is designed to give students a comprehensive understanding of health care law in the United States. It describes the basic components of the law impacting healthcare, and the evolution of the law leading up to the current statutes, regulations and case law.
Health care marketing will provide an examination of marketing principles and processes related to health care organizations. It is an introduction to the process of marketing products, services, and organizations in the health care industry to meet the needs of domestic and global customers. Product, price, distribution channels, service and marketing communication strategies are examined. It explores the provider and consumer perspectives of marketing, as well as the impact of the Internet on delivery systems. Company analysis, market segmentation, the use of market research, product pricing and distribution, advertising, and target markets are examined.
This course provides an introduction to global health care services and systems and a foundation for understanding, comparing and analyzing health care internationally. The student will study the culture, environmental, economic and political factors that influence health, including the organization of healthcare services their structure, financing and delivery. Students will analyze and appreciate the differences in health that exist between countries, current and past problems and ethical issues surrounding cost, access and quality.
