Biology - Major in Biology Program

Healthcare Management Concentration

12 courses/36 credits:
9 core MBA courses - 3 credits each
3 healthcare management concentration courses - 3 credits each

Healthcare Management Concentration courses:
Three of the following:
MBA 801 Introduction to Healthcare Management

The course examines the history of medicine; healthcare delivery systems such as acute hospital care, chronic care, outpatient systems, and long term care; healthcare professions and medical education; US and World healthcare systems; health insurance, healthcare financing and payers; employee based coverage compared to government coverage; public health; and healthcare technology and innovation and its cost. The course provides an introduction to management across functions in a healthcare organization. 3 credits.

MBA 802 Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Issues in Healthcare

This course introduces students to the legal, regulatory, and ethical issues they are likely to face in managing a healthcare organization. With the increasing intersection between healthcare delivery and law, healthcare managers will encounter a wide range of legal and regulatory issues, including patients' rights, antitrust, institutional liability, privacy, security and reimbursement. It is thus important for students to be familiar with basic legal principles affecting how healthcare institutions operate, how legal rules and doctrine are formulated, and how to interact effectively with attorneys. 3 credits.

MBA 830 Healthcare Informatics

This course covers the application of health care information systems and implementation of information technology in health care organizations. The course introduces key terms and concepts surrounding data, information, regulations, laws, and standards in the healthcare industry. The course explores the processes that drives healthcare system selection, acquisition, and the related management challenges. Additionally, there is a focus on implications of information technology in healthcare as well as covering leadership and strategy as it relates to the healthcare industry. 3 credits.

MBA 883 Current Issues in Healthcare Leadership

The course provides students with key leadership concepts and strategies for personal and professional development. The course focuses on application of leadership theory and techniques such as mentorship, team dynamics, change management, customer service, and employee engagement. The students will leave the course with a toolkit of practical leadership methods applicable to day to day health care leadership. 3 credits.

MBA 885 Ethical Leadership

A focus on the examination of leadership theories and concepts and how to recognize, analyze, and resolve ethical dilemmas in our leadership roles. Through the use of case studies and self-analysis, students will assess: corporate social responsibility; the public and private morality of leaders; the moral obligations of leaders and followers; the ways in which leaders shape the moral environment of institutions; the temptations of power; and leader-follower interaction. 3 credits.

MBA 891 Special Topics in Healthcare Management

This course option allows for the exploration of current topics in the field of healthcare management. This course may be repeated for credit as topic changes. 3 credits.