MHA Fall Courses

MHA1001 Intro to the US Health Care System

Credits: 1 Offered: Fall

This course will explore the roles and structures of medical centers, physicians, patients, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers, Medicare/Medicaid and accountable care organizations. The history and future directions of health systems will be discussed as well as legal and ethical issues and national policies and procedures such as the HIP AA and the IRB. Advantages and limitations of this system including a comparison of its quality, cost and accessibility with other systems worldwide will be explored.

MHA1002 Strategic Planning for Health Care Delivery

Credits: 3 Offered: Fall

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.

MHA1005 Health Care Delivery Economics

Credits: 3 Offered: Fall

The intent of this course is to train future public health practitioners on the economic and political questions that emerge in the process of developing health systems. The various sessions during the course will review core economic principles applied to the role of governments, the private sector and the competitive marketplace. The course will provide an overview of traditional microeconomic theory and practice as applied to demand, supply, competition, monopoly, and social welfare. It will drill down on topics such as role of governments, private sector, market competition, government failure and market failure. Special sessions will be devoted to topics on clinical services, non-clinical services, the health care workforce, health financing, the health related manufacturing sectors (pharmaceuticals, medical technology and information technology) and leadership/health management. Students who successfully complete this course will be able to: ‚Ä¢ Analyze the key policy and public health challenges faced by the US and other health care systems using economic principles, market analysis and health policy formulation ‚Ä¢ Design key policy recommendations to address some of the public health challenges faced by vulnerable population groups that are consistent with underlying economic principles economic principles, market analysis and health policy formulation ‚Ä¢ Apply the principles of economic evaluation to selected problems in the health sector and health industry verticals. The major course output will be guided, semester-long exercises in analyzing and developing strategic development plans from a public health professional’s perspective to guide political and economic decision making. The focus on health systems is a concrete means to understand the more general competencies involved in the application of economic analysis, which include political, financial, technical and organizational skills.

MHA1007 Budgeting and Finance Essentials

Credits: 3 Offered: Fall

Financial statements enable managers to evaluate the performance of an organization and assess its financial position. Budgets, based on forecasts, take the form of projected statements and serve as an important managerial tool for planning and control purposes. This course provides an introduction the accounting, budgeting and financial reporting techniques commonly used in the health care and not-for-profit environment. Emphasis is placed on enabling students to become comfortable with financial analysis, budgets and commonly-used financial terminology so that they can effectively address financial matters they will encounter in leadership roles in health care and not-for-profit organizations.

MHA1009 Seminar 1: Process Improvement and Project Management Tools and Methods

Credits: 2 Offered: Fall

(Lean Greenbelt)

This active workshop-styled course will showcase effective methods to measure, analyze and improve project management and process controls in health care delivery using Project Management (PM) tools and principles and their application to various health care scenarios. Students will be expected to actively participate in case studies and apply the PM tools and methods to achieve gains in effectiveness and efficiency in processes leading to greater optimization.

MHA2003 Seminar 2: Transforming Health Care: Quality Management

Credits: 2 Offered: Fall

ONLY OPEN to students in the Masters Health Care Administration 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.

MHA2005 Population Health and Managed Care

Credits: 3 Offered: Fall

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

MHA2006 Marketing for Health Care Delivery

Credits: 3 Offered: Fall

At a strategic level, this interactive course will enable participants to: Learn the pillars of effective communication and marketing for health care delivery systems Understand how digital tools are affecting communication and marketing across the health care sector and related industries Recognize and understand the connections between effective communication and strategic management of health care delivery Enhance communication and marketing strategies to improve branding, core functions, and heath care quality, and Define and build elements of strategic communication and marketing plans.

MHA5001 DiSC: Finding Your Teamwork Style

Credits: 0.5 Offered: Fall

This semester skills building workshops will focus on Effective Teams. These intensive short training courses will immerse students in additional skill set areas necessary to become highly functioning and effective managers. The 5 areas of training focus will complement the substantive curriculum of the program and focus on: project management methods, Excel and SAS essentials for managers, giving professional presentations, effective time management, and creating and managing functional teams (collaboration). Students will receive expert instruction on best methods/practices related to health care delivery, practice those methods in active small group settings, and share lessons learned in each of these areas. Students will be expected to actively participate in case studies and complete a project for each short course/module.

MHA5003 Creating Effective Teams

Credits: 0.5 Offered: Fall

This semester skills building workshops will focus on Effective Teams. These intensive short training courses will immerse students in additional skill set areas necessary to become highly functioning and effective managers. The 5 areas of training focus will complement the substantive curriculum of the program and focus on: project management methods, Excel and SAS essentials for managers, giving professional presentations, effective time management, and creating and managing functional teams (collaboration). Students will receive expert instruction on best methods/practices related to health care delivery, practice those methods in active small group settings, and share lessons learned in each of these areas. Students will be expected to actively participate in case studies and complete a project for each short course/module.

MHA5009 Lean Process Improvement Methods

Credits: 0.5 Offered: Fall

This semester skills building workshops will focus on Effective Teams. These intensive short training courses will immerse students in additional skill set areas necessary to become highly functioning and effective managers. The areas of training focus will complement the substantive curriculum of the program and focus on: project management methods, Excel and SAS essentials for managers, giving professional presentations, effective time management, and creating and managing functional teams (collaboration). Students will receive expert instruction on best methods/practices related to health care delivery, practice those methods in active small group settings, and share lessons learned in each of these areas. Students will be expected to actively participate in case studies and complete a project for each short course/module.

MHA5010 MS Project for Health Care Managers

Credits: 0.5 Offered: Fall

This course addresses the features of Microsoft’s Project application, which is specifically designed to address the needs of project managers in professional environments. This course is intended for students who have at least some prior knowledge of project management procedures and practices. It is intended to support you in applying this knowledge through the use of Microsoft Project as a project management tool. The primary course topics include: Fundamentals, New Project Schedules, Task Types, Effort-Driven Scheduling, & Task Constraints, Working with Resources, Managing the Project Schedule, Reporting

MHA8000 Capstone

Credits: 2 Offered: Fall

Participants will have the opportunity to work on a health care improvement project addressing an important management problem faced in either their employer’s organization or in another host institution. This action learning project will enable the application and integration of Lean principles and course material into a coherent response and potential solution(s) to an actual healthcare delivery issue. These projects will form a repository of knowledge that program cohort peers can use to learn from and share. Must have 36 or more credit completed. Registration requires prior approval from the program director.

MHA8001 Administrative Internship

Credits: 1-3 Offered: Fall

The MHA administrative internship consists of collaboration between the student, a site supervisor/preceptor, faculty advisor and Program Director. The internship provides students the opportunity to demonstrate mastery of lessons learned in coursework and apply to an administrative fieldwork setting relevant to a student’s area of interest in health care delivery management. Not open to first trimester (new) students. Registration requires prior approval from the program director.