HCD Fall Courses

HCD0601 Seminar: Leading Teams

Credits: 2 Offered: Fall

This gateway seminar introduces you to key program themes and course materials. It helps frame initial themes of the program content that will follow in subsequent courses. The seminar will allow for ample networking and collaborative opportunities. Key themes to be explored are: leading in a disrupted health care delivery sector, understanding broad system influencers, quality improvement and evidence-based decisions in health care delivery, reform basis of the Affordable Care Act, and managing critical urban health issues.

HCD0602 Seminar 2: Transforming/Leading Health Care: Quality Management

Credits: 2 Offered: Fall

ONLY OPEN to students in the MS Health Care Delivery Leadership Program

This intensive seminar focuses on the central elements that ensure quality throughout health care delivery systems and organizations. These elements include: 1) An examination of patient safety management 2) Quality improvement concepts and innovations 3) The clinical microsystems approach to value and quality improvement. The seminar will allow course colleagues, faculty, and prominent guest speakers to network and collaborate. There will also be another interactive session on personal leadership development.

HCD0730 Health Care Delivery Economics

Credits: 3 Offered: Fall

ONLY OPEN to students in the MS Health Care Delivery Leadership Program.

This course provides an overview of the economics of health care delivery for industry leaders. It begins with an in-depth analysis of the structure and dynamics of the US healthcare system and trends in health care expenditures. We address economic perspectives and theory related to the production of health care and the supply and demand of health care services, the health insurance market, the structure of healthcare systems and industries through the continuum of care (medical practices, hospitals, and post-acute care providers), and health care system reform

HCD0740 Strategy Creation for Health Care

Credits: 3 Offered: Fall

ONLY OPEN to students in the MS Health Care Delivery Leadership Program.

Designed for experienced managers in a health care or related organizations, this course is an opportunity to learn how to transform organizational knowledge into a strategic management system. We will examine the uses of external environmental analysis, organizational assessment, practical research, data collection and leadership principles as the basis for the creation of strategic management and leadership tools. We will focus on the analytical dimensions of strategic thinking and planning to ensure you are exposed to the technical and conceptual elements of strategy.

HCD0850 Population Health and Managed Care

Credits: 3 Offered: Fall

ONLY OPEN to students in the MS Health Care Delivery Leadership Program.

This course will enable you to probe the Public Health and Community/Population-Based Approach and address the core principles and functions of public health, including how this approach differs from acute care medicine, and how public functions are institutionalized in the US health care system. The course will focus upon arguments and evidence that the health status of populations is shaped not by medical care and health care policy but rather by basic social conditions that often correlate closely with class, race, and ethnicity. Interrelated topics include: status and stress; social isolation and community engagement; complex socio-clinical conditions (mental illness, HIV, substance abuse, homelessness); promotion of healthy behaviors; and the role of the ACA in advancing public health

HCD0901 Capstone: Health Care Delivery Leadership

Credits: 2 Offered: Fall

ONLY OPEN to students in the MS Health Care Delivery Leadership Program You will have the opportunity to work on a project that directly addresses a strategic problem in your institution, or carefully examine one of a host institution. This action learning project will enable the application and integration of course material into a coherent response and potential solution(s) to an actual health care delivery issue. These projects will form a repository of knowledge that program cohort peers can use to learn from and share.

HCD8001 Maintenance of Matriculation

Credits: 0 Offered: Fall

Maintenance of Matriculation for Healthcare Delivery Leadership