The program will enable you to:
Learn to build and manage team decision making
Update and improve project leadership skills
Lead change management processes
Manage conflict
Develop cultural competence to serve heterogeneous populations
Recognize and analyze the ethical dimensions that arise in the course of health care delivery
The program will provide opportunities for you to learn how to:
Use financial information in strategic decision making
Navigate medical reimbursement and payment systems
Use economic analyses to understand major market influences and to find organizational cost effectiveness and efficiencies
Identify successful models of cost containment that enhance quality service delivery
Apply operations management tools/practices toward performance improvement and optimization
Apply basic tenets of human resource management to health care delivery problems
Appraise the use of evidence-based and leveraged translational science for decision making in health care delivery
Articulate the role of information systems and technologies in improving patient-centered health care delivery
Understand the content and likely implications of the Affordable Care Act and the nature of the regulatory system
Identify potential methods for managing patient growth under ACA
Analyze social and behavioral determinants of health
Craft potential solutions to the major challenges of public health interventions
Apply principles of safety and risk management towards improving health care delivery effectiveness
Understand the strengths and limitations of innovations in clinical microsystems
You will further develop your ability to:
Understand rationales, theories and political models of health care policy making
Learn strategy creation and implementation methods
Learn and apply processes for creating and employing innovation
Improve problem-solving skills
Enhance knowledge of strategic communication strategies and principles
Learn legal perspectives and context about health care delivery issues