Program Details: Health Care Administration Courses

Our health care administration courses prepare you to:

• Assess the components of health care services in the United States and analyze the current issues, trends, and limitations of health care administration.
• Understand the fundamentals of health care system information management, including electronic health records.
• Discuss the principles of public health practices, the role of the public health department, and the tools needed to effectively manage a typical health department.

Here are the health care administration courses you will take to complete your health care certificate:

HCA 520 Advanced Concepts of Health Care Administration
Analyze organizational dynamics and complex operational and regulatory factors that must be aligned to ensure the highest-quality care and greatest efficiency and cost-effectiveness. You will explore operational divisions, functions, and groups, including professional providers, caregivers, and support services such as finance management, information services, human resources, plant services, and marketing. Special attention will be paid to integral value, purpose, function, and unique perspectives. Emphasis on the creation of an environment of continuous improvement and organizational adaptability and success is explored. Measures and benchmarks of success are integrated throughout the course.

HCA 540 Integrating Ethics in Health Care
Explore the ethical components, dilemmas, and obligations in American health care organizations and systems. Specifically, ethical issues related to caregiving and bioethics, demographic trends, relationships among organizational professionals and staff, delivery models, securing and allocating scarce resources, ethical terminology, and technology are examined. Health care organizational ethics and obligations are analyzed, emphasizing the role of health care administration in creating an ethical culture of care delivery and cost-effectiveness. Various ethical decision-making models are compared and applied to case scenarios while incorporating and using ethical terminology.

HCA 550 Managing Health Care Information Systems
This course focuses on the increasing presence of and reliance on information technology and information systems in health care organizations and systems of all sizes and purposes. Today’s health care admin must understand the use, types, benefits, and limitations of information technology on structure, processes, and work design. Infrastructure requirements and cost, security, and related regulation and law are reviewed. The selection and alignment of information management with organizational strategic planning to achieve high levels of performance are emphasized throughout.

HCA 560 Hospital Management
Hospital Management provides a framework for addressing management problems in hospitals and other health care organizations. By the end of the course, you will have been exposed to many management ideas, theories, and applications.

Health Care Administration Certificate Enrollment Requirements

To enroll in our health care certificate program, follow these steps:

• Complete the application form (choose NDS: nondegree seeking).
• Submit an official or unofficial transcript indicating a bachelor’s degree conferred from a regionally accredited institution of higher education.
• Pay all tuition and fees.
• Have access to email and the Internet.