MS Healthcare Administration Course Descriptions
| Course | Course Description | Textbook |
|---|---|---|
| MHA501 Healthcare Service Systems (3cr) | This course will review evolution of healthcare service systems and address the evolving issues within this service to include: patient safety, quality improvement, evidenced based medicine, value in health care, interprofessional teamwork, health care resources, population management, clinical informatics, care coordination, leadership, and an introduction to healthcare financing/reform. | Required: Health Systems Science, 1/e. Editors: Susan E. Skochelak and Richard E. Hawkins ISBN-13: 978-0323461160 Retail Price: $98.99 |
| MHA503 Human Resources and Professional Development (3cr) | This course examines factors that impact healthcare organizations with a focus on how the application of effective human resource policies and procedures can improve organizational efficiencies within the context of emerging healthcare models and legislation. There will be particular emphasis on identifying and hiring healthcare professionals who will contribute to effective patient outcomes. | Required: Human Resources in Healthcare: Managing for Success, 4/e Bruce Fried Health Administration Press; (May 1, 2015) ISBN-13: 978-1567937084 Retail Price: $120.00 |
| MHA504 Business Management for Healthcare Services (3cr) | This course provides a framework for addressing management problems in health care organizations, with particular focus on how to manage within the fast-changing landscape of evolving technologies, regulations, and world events. By the end of this course, students will learn concepts and theories in health care management, understand various perspectives and values of health care management, integrate health care management theory into real-world situations, and develop the ability to work productively with others in diverse teams. | Required: Strategic Healthcare Management – Planning and Execution, 2/e. Walston, S. L. (2018). Healthcare Administration Press. Chicago, IL. ISBN: 9781567939606 Retail Price: 73.80 |
| MHA505 Health Policy: Legal Aspects (3cr) | This course will look at the legal aspects of healthcare form the patient viewpoint, provider viewpoint, and institutional viewpoint. Topics covered include a review of the legal system, tort law, contracting, corporate & legal structure, and legal aspects for: medical staff, nurses, allied health professionals. Additionally, patient and employee rights and responsibilities, and legal reporting will be addressed. | Required: Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration, 13/e. George D. Pozgar Jones & Bartlett Learning; (March 20, 2018) ISBN-13: 978-1284127171 Retail Price: $52.62 |
| MHA506 Organizational Theory of Management in Healthcare (3cr) | This course examines and explores various past, current, and emerging theories of seeing, describing, analyzing, and applying best practices within the healthcare industry. Particular focus will be on the dynamics between and among the various stakeholders in healthcare – insurance companies, patients, employees, changing demographics, legislative actions, and technology companies. | Required: Organizational behavior and theory in healthcare: leadership perspectives and management applications. Walston, S. L. (2017). Healthcare Administration Press. Chicago, IL. ISBN: 9781567938418 Retail Price: $102.00 |
| MHA508 Healthcare Economics (3cr) | This course will provide a broad scope look at healthcare economics. It will address some of the fundamental economic issues in health care to include: healthcare financing systems, managing risks, cost structures, revenue generation, forecasting, supply and demand models, maximizing profits. The course will cover the economic analysis used in decision making and the influence of government regulations in these processes. Current case studies will be used throughout the course. | Required: Economics for Healthcare Managers. 4/e Robert H. Lee, Ph.D. Health Administration Press; (February 1, 2019) ISBN-13: 978-1640550483 Retail Price: $105.00 |
| MHA509 Healthcare Information Technology (3cr) | In this course, students are presented with material that will ensure a standard level of computer ability. The student is acquainted with the basics of operation of modern computers and operating systems. The course will help students navigate the computing world to become computer literate and appreciate the effect of information technology on people, privacy, ethics, our environment, and especially in healthcare. The course covers the key information today’s students need to know to be prepared for the careers and knowledge in Health Information Management, HIM. | Required: Health Information Management and Technology M. Beth Shanholtzer and Gary Ozanich McGraw-Hill Education (2015) ISBN: 9780073513683 (print) | 9780077507084 (Digital) Retail Price: $120.49 | $89.06 Computing Essentials 2019, 27/e. Timothy O’Leary and Linda O’Leary and Daniel O’Leary McGraw-Hill Education (2018) ISBN: 978-1260096057 Retail Price: $83.70 |
| MHA510 Biostatistics for Decision Making (3cr) | This course covers concepts in biostatistics. The term biostatistics and how it is applied in healthcare is examined. The meaning of specific biostatistical tests, how to detect patterns in data, and how to judge the validity and reliability of data are explored. Topics include the sample mean, variance, random variables, finite probability, the binomial and normal distributions, sampling, interval estimation, control charts, analysis of variance, regression, correlation, nonparametric statistics, bivariate distributions, tests of hypothesis, chi-square tests, and survival analysis. Use extensively statistical computer package in the analysis of data and application of statistical tests as they apply in healthcare situations. | TBD |
| MHA512 Quantitative Methods (3cr) | This course explores the use of quantitative methods in the healthcare environment. Quantitative analysis provides reliable and valid templates for healthcare leaders to make the necessary decisions to provide quality care for the fast-growing number of patients and other users of the healthcare industry. | Required: Big Data in Healthcare: Statistical Analysis of the Electronic Health Record Farrokh Alemi Health Administration Press (February 18, 2020) ISBN-13: 978-1-64055-063-6 Retail Price: $90.00 |
| MHA513 Epidemiology and Research Activities (3cr) | This course covers a broad range of concepts and practical application to include: epidemiologic measure of occurrence and effect, study designs, validation testing, precision, statistical interference, data analysis, disease surveillance, ecologic studies, social epidemiology, and infectious disease. Special topics in the study of epidemiology in the following areas are addressed: social, nutritional, genetic, environmental, reproductive, and clinical epidemiology. | Required: Introduction to Epidemiologic Research Methods in Public Health Practice Editors: Susan L. Bailey and Deepa Handu Jones & Bartlett Learning; 1st edition (August 21, 2012) ISBN-10: 1449627846 ISBN-13: 978-1449627843 Ebook access keys are provided by JPU at cost. Retail Price: $34.18 |
| MHA602 Medical Ethics (3cr) | This course focuses on areas that require an understanding of medical ethics. Emphasis will be placed on patient data, patient records, publications, presentations, general professional conduct, medical malpractice, and research. | Required: Ethics in Health Administration – A Practical Approach for Decision Makers, 4/e. Eileen E. Morrison Jones & Bartlett Learning; (February 12, 2019) ISBN-13: 978-1284156119 Retail Price: $50.34 |
| MHA613 Market Research & Technology (2cr) | This course examines techniques for market research and market analysis and addresses: organizational structure, market research, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, and data presentation. The course will explore the existing and current technologies in healthcare with a focus on radiology, oncology, and radiation oncology. The course will tie together the techniques of emerging technology with market need. | Required: Market Segmentation Analysis: Understanding It, Doing It, and Making It Useful Editors: Dolnicar, Sara, Grun, Bettina, Leisch, Friderich Springer; 1/e. 2018 edition (August 3, 2018) ISBN-10: 9811088179 ISBN-13: 978-9811088179 Retail Price: $44.01 |
| Radiology Specialization (6 credits required) | ||
| MHA601 Economics in Radiology (3cr) | This course is a very dynamic course on economics in Radiology. It addresses the coding and billing source, resources available, new financial models, medicare and medicaid, and payer relations. This course will also address how accreditation, quality programs, and bench-marking affect the financial operations within differing organizations. | TBD |
| MHA604 Capstone Course (3cr) | This course covers a broad range of concepts and practical application introduced throughout the program by engaging the student to construct a robust business plan or pro-forma. The course will guide the student to utilize the skills and resources available to build out a practical business plan or pro-forma in the respective discipline. | Required: No text required. Various resources applicable to business plan/pro-forma will be utilized. |
| Oncology Specialization (6 credits required) | ||
| MHA610 Economics in Oncology: Surgical, Medical, Radiation (3cr) | This course is a very dynamic course on economics in Oncology. It addresses the coding and billing source, resources available, new financial models, medicare and medicaid, and payer relations. This course will also address how accreditation, quality programs, and bench-marking affect the financial operations within differing organizations. | Required: Health Economics and Policy, 7/e. James Henderson Cengage Learning (September 8, 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1337106757 Retail Price: $69.75 The Economics of Health and Heath Care, 8/e. Sherman Folland, Allen Charles Goodman, and Miron Stano Routledge (May 25, 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1138208056 Retail Price: $88.49 |
| MHA614 Capstone Course (3cr) | This course covers a broad range of concepts and practical application introduced throughout the program by engaging the student to construct a robust business plan or pro-forma. The course will guide the student to utilize the skills and resources available to build out a practical business plan or pro-forma in the respective discipline. | Required: Health Services Planning, 2/e. Richard K. Thomas Springer (December 31, 2003) ISBN-13: 978-0306478048 Retail Price: $144.10 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b100617?token=Med3Aff5&utm_campaign=3_fjp8312_springer_katte_Med3Aff5&countryChanged=true |
| Executive Specialization (6 credits required) | ||
| MHA626 CEO, CFO, COO Seminar Series (3cr) | This course is very unique as it will focus on hot topics in the healthcare field that directly affect the roles and responsibilities of the CEO, COO, and CFO. Topics that are covered by each entity include: Healthcare policy, Private Equity Investment, Artificial Intelligence, Precision Medicine, Retailers as Primary Care Providers, Millennial Consumers, Internet Provision, Technology Adoption, Acquisition and Partnerships. | Required: Principles of Healthcare Leadership Bernard Healey Health Administration Press (June 1, 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1567938920 Retail Price: $78.00 Introduction to Health Care Management, 4/e. Sharon Buchbinder, Nancy Shanks, and Bobbie Kite Jones and Bartlett Learning (October 28, 2019) ISBN-13: 978-1284156560 Retail Price: $63.01 |
| MHA624 Capstone Course (3cr) | This course covers a broad range of concepts and practical applications introduced throughout the program by engaging the student to construct a robust business plan or pro-forma. The course will focus on hospital systems, mergers, acquisitions, and major capital investment. The course will guide the student to utilize the skills and resources available to build out a practical business plan or pro-forma in the respective discipline. | Required: The Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations, 8/e. Peter Ginter, W. Jack Duncan, and Linda E. Swayne Wiley (February 5, 2018) ISBN-13: 978-1119349709 Retail Price: $72.08 Strategic Healthcare Management: Planning and Execution, 2/e. Stephen Walston Health Administration Press (January 1, 2018) ISBN-13: 978-1567939606 Retail Price: $74.42 |