Health Care Management provides a framework for addressing management problems in health care organizations. By the end of the course you will have been exposed to many management ideas, theories and applications.

COURSE TOPICS:

INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
Overview of key issues in the management and administration of comprehensive health care facilities. Focuses on the administrator’s relationship to the medical and nursing professions and assesses the attributes of the various types of health service organizations.

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND CULTURE IN HEALTH CARE
Analysis of problems and issues associated with management of health care organizations and distinguishes between various types of organizations. This course focuses on hospitals, mental care centers, long-term care facilities, managed care organizations, and community clinics. Introduction to special terminology, culture, and behavior patterns that characterize health care with emphasis on implications for administration of health care institutions.

ECONOMICS OF HEALTH CARE
Analysis of economic factors bearing on the costs and affordability of health care. Covers public perceptions, attitudes, and political pressures as they affect demand for health services; reimbursement policies shaping service delivery; competition and alternative delivery systems; managed care and other government and private payer attempts to control costs; and overview of the medical cost containment crisis.

HISTORY OF HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT
Students will have the opportunity to follow the strategic trends of the health care industry since its entry into the business arena. An assessment of post-World War II changes in health care, managed care, and managed competition will be addressed. Changes in incentives for physicians, hospitals, and health care providers will be discussed. An assessment of new technology and techniques introduced into the health care industry will also be addressed.

HEALTH CARE ACCOUNTING, BUDGETING AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Application of accounting, budgeting and financial management concepts and techniques to managerial decision making in the health care industry. Examines how private and public agencies determine program priorities, allocate resources to execute programs and obtain funds through taxation, bond issues, and other means. Explores cash flow problems related to third-party payments. Uses case study analysis to determine financial techniques and reporting for health care providers.

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY
Analyzes special problems of forecasting, planning, staffing, and developing human resource management in health care institutions. Explores legal aspects of human resource management and administration in the industry with an emphasis on compliance.

LEGAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS
Basic principles of law applicable to the business world, emphasizing contract, sales, bailments, negotiable instruments, agency, partnerships, corporations, insurance, and real estate.

HEALTH CARE QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Comprehensive examination of those systems that measure and maintain quality in health care. Continuous improvements of the Total Quality Management discipline as it applies to health care.

CURRENT TOPICS IN HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT
The analysis, discussion, and reporting from current literature of significant trends, controversial issues affecting health care, and application of advanced decision-making techniques to those issues.

MARKETING MANAGEMENT FOR THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY
Application of marketing concepts and techniques within and to health care institutions. Comprehensive overview of market analysis for new and on-going products and services.

INDUSTRY TRENDS IN HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT
This capstone course for Health Care Management majors focuses on the application of the principles, concepts, and theories underlying the discipline. Emphasis is on the application of high-ordered thinking and decision-making techniques regarding industry trends in Health Care Management.