26 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 303Professionalism for Healthcare Administrators1
Healthcare administrators must demonstrate professional behaviors and be able to navigate the professional culture of healthcare. In particular healthcare administrators must be able to demonstrate: 1) culturally competent interpersonal interactions, 2) appropriate dress and personal presentation in healthcare settings, and 3) the ability to plan for and obtain ongoing professional development to meet the changing requirements of healthcare settings.
Examines foundational management principles, including assessment, planning, organizational design & structure, and market assessment. Health Care as an industry is explored in addition to classical and current views of leadership. Provides a foundation in theories and models of leadership. Allows students to assess their own leadership style.
Examines approaches, strategies, and tactics of marketing and their application to the health care industry. Key areas of marketing include strategic market planning, the external marketing environment, buyer behavior, market segmentation, product/service development, pricing, and brand management and communication. Special emphasis is placed on the role of marketing in value creation as well as the importance of socially responsible marketing practices in an organization.
Explores the manager’s role in creating and maintaining a productive health workforce by understanding theory and practices from management, organizational development, and organizational behavior that impact the management of the employment relationship, including human resource planning, job analysis, recruitment, selection, development, work re- design, performance evaluation, compensation, employee relations, workforce diversity; employee discipline.
HCM 345Organizational Communication and Media Relations for Health Care Management3
This course will explore the theory, research, and skills associated with communicating in various care contexts. This will include communication among healthcare organizations and in mediated messages in the marketing, promotion, and dissemination of health information. Special emphasis is placed on the role of marketing in brand management and the role that media relations play in organizational crises management. This course provides an appreciation of the need for responsible leadership in crisis communication situations as well as an understanding of the importance of socially responsible marketing practices in a healthcare organization.
Provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the relationship of groups and individuals within organizations utilizing theoretical concepts from psychology, sociology, philosophy, and communication. Introduces the concepts of organizational development (OD) and process of change management through techniques such as process consultation, conflict resolution, and feedback.
Students will examine the significant role that project management plays in the successful completion of health care information technology projects. The skills, tools, and best practices used to effectively manage a project from its inception to successful closure will be discussed. Students will learn how to control the scope, time, cost, and quality of projects.
This course will teach students how to complete a basic data set analysis and explain the results. The course will introduce students to the process of defining and organizing data, and will explore how to define a question (hypothesis) for a data set, how to answer questions with data analysis by applying appropriate statistical summaries and tests, and how to explain and present the results of a basic data analysis.
This course provides the health care manager with tools needed to develop and implement quality measures and outcomes in the health care organization. Explores how healthcare delivery systems can better measure outcomes from both patient and organizational perspectives. Analyzes quality improvement programs and examines their adaptability to the healthcare environment. The emphasis is on basic quality improvement techniques. Pre-requisites: POH 442, HCM 370, HCM 425, HCM 446.
This course will enable the student to describe the ethical issues associated with health care informatics and information systems within the health care industry. The student will examine the classical normative ethical theories based on notions of duties, rights, consequences and virtue- based ethics as well as the contemporary codes of conduct established by the health care industry, within the context of health care informatics and information systems. The students will explore, analyze, and critique case studies to develop skills in ethical thought and written communications.
HCM 369Health Informatics and Information Management3
This course introduces students to the foundations of the field of Health Information Management (HIM) and the health care IT applications utilized therein, with emphasis on electronic health record (EHR) technology. Topics also include an introduction to the various types, definitions,
This course provides students with an overview of financial management functions and economic evaluation at the departmental level of healthcare organizations including budgeting and cost analysis for department-level operations and capital expenditures. Pre-requisites: Undergraduate accounting, Undergraduate economics, HCM 305.
Supervised fieldwork experience concluding with the development of a portfolio documenting the effective use of qualitative and quantitative methods to evaluate their fieldwork experiences. Pre-requisites: Senior standing and completion of all HCM/POH program required courses except HCM 480 Strategic Management and Leadership and HCM 495 Capstone. Co- requisites: HCM 485 Senior Seminar.
HCM 400Health Care Information Systems and Health Policy3
Students will explore the legislative processes related to the generation of healthcare policies, the downstream effect that those policies have on health care informatics and information systems, and the impact of those policies on the delivery of quality, patient- centered care. Topics will include a historical overview of health care policy initiatives which have been instrumental in changing the way health care settings utilize information systems, such as HIPAA and the HITECH Act.
This course will teach students how to discover interesting and unexpected business insights through the application of data mining techniques. Data mining combines in-depth statistical analysis, visualization, and other approaches to explore large amounts of data allowing discovery of relationships and patterns that can shed light on issues. The course explores data mining tools and techniques, as well as database theory and structures. Special emphasis will be on learning about data extraction and reports from VHS data warehouses and cubes.
Introduction to legal and health policy making systems for healthcare. Examines ethical dilemmas that commonly appear in contemporary healthcare situations. Explains issues around governance, organizational structure, contracts, and reimbursement. Introduces regulatory, accreditation, and professional association's oversight. Examines the role of policy- makers and politics in health care. Explores the role of diversity in organizations and need for cultural competence throughout organizations.
HCM 445Quantitative Methods for Health Care Management3
Introduces the statistical efficacy of MS Excel for use in the construction of common operational and financial models found in today’s healthcare settings. Data sets specific to practical health care operations scenarios, such as DRG codes, lengths of stay, monthly visits, Medicare/Medicaid charges, etc., will be analyzed and manipulated using MS Excel as an opportunity for students to synthesize the quantitative concepts and methods covered. Prerequisites: MAT 211 or HSC 320
HCM 446Business Methods for Health Care Management1
Students will utilize electronic tools including spreadsheet and database software/apps to demonstrate statistical, financial, economic, and analytic analysis techniques used in managerial and administrative decision making. Prerequisites: Undergraduate Statistics (e.g. MAT 211) and HCM 305. Pre or co-requisites: HCM 370 and HCM 425.
Provides the student with the knowledge and skills necessary to develop, implement, and evaluate an organizational strategic plan, including business/corporate unit strategies.
HCM 455Introduction to Long-Term Care Administration3
Provides the student with an introduction to the long-term care industry. Students will examine health care and social services offered, financing, management, and emerging policy issues for institutional and community-based components of the long-term care delivery system.
This course introduces students to the operational functions of healthcare managers across the healthcare and public health continuum. Topics include design and structure of the healthcare continuum, planning for and managing patient flow, measuring productivity, streamlining process flows, tracking outcomes and performance metrics, and improving clinical and non-clinical processes. Operations topics will include incorporating perspectives from clinical operations, business, operations, information management, patient safety and community impact.
This course provides students with an opportunity to reflect on their managerial internship experience at a healthcare setting and to contextualize their experiences within the larger healthcare field. Students will work in small groups to help one another problem solve issues that occur during their internship experience by applying course work knowledge and skills. Students will discuss the potential impact of current trends in healthcare practice on their current experience and on future experiences beyond their college experience. Students will prepare their program portfolio and will participate in mock experiences to prepare them for post-graduation work. Pre-requisites: Senior standing and completion of all HCM/POH program required courses except HCM 480 Strategic Management and Leadership and HCM 496 Capstone. Co-requisites: HCM 395 Internship.
Capstone completion allows students to demonstrate competencies learned throughout the curriculum. Students perform a project plan to organize, coordinate, and present a project that addresses a contemporary issue that affects managers in health services. The course has experiential, research, quality, and synthesis components. Students may opt to analyze solutions to issues based on experiences encountered through work, internship, simulated cases, or described in directed readings. Prerequisite: HCM 445
This course serves as a culminating capstone experience in which students are expected to apply knowledge and skills gained from their undergraduate experience as a whole and from the program specifically to solve a current healthcare management problem. This course provides students with the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to think critically, to synthesize information from multiple areas of healthcare practice, to integrate content across the multiple skills and practices areas expected of healthcare managers, to work in a team, and to transition from student to practicing professional. Prerequisite: Senior standing and completion of all HCM/POH program required courses except HCM 395 Internship and HCM 485 Senior Seminar. Co-requisite: HCM 480 Strategic Management and Leadership.
