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This chapter covers the MS in Healthcare Delivery Leadership Program. Students can find the following information in this section.
MS in Health Care Delivery Leadership students maintain satisfactory progress by:
Passing all courses in order to graduate
Attending and completing all in-person seminars
Actively participating in all online elements, including but not limited to discussion boards, blogs, synchronous sessions, and all course assignments
Actively engaging with peer learners and faculty in each course
Accessing all course resources, including but not limited to recorded lectures, assigned readings, multi-media elements, and case studies or simulations
Maintaining satisfactory progress on all milestones for the Capstone project
Students who do not meet the criteria for Good Standing may be placed on probation by the Program Director, Dean of the Graduate School, or their appointed representatives: including the Academic Advisory Committee and the Academic Program Office. Once a student is placed on academic probation, academic progress must be made within two terms. Dismissal is the likely consequence if performance continues to be unsatisfactory. Students on probation are considered enrolled.
Students are required to maintain a 3.0 Grade Point Average (GPA). Students who fall below a GPA of 3.0 will be placed on academic probation. Anytime a student’s GPA falls below 3.0, the Program Faculty Director will work with the student and create a remediation plan.
The Faculty Director in discretionary consultation with program or school-wide academic committee reviews the progress of each student on probation. If the GPA has not improved in the subsequent term, the student will continue to meet the Faculty Director revising the remediation plan, as needed. If the student’s GPA has not reached 3.0 within two terms having been placed on probation, the student may be dismissed from the program
The Master’s Degree in Health Care Delivery Leadership provides the opportunity for you to further develop and refine the following professional attributes that are critical to success in the health care delivery industry:
Lead in evaluating models and crafting strategies that guide health care organizations toward successful adoption of, and adaptation to, changes in policy and management.
Be critical consumers of the major literature about health care delivery and reform, with the ability to judge the quality of prominent proposals for innovation in health care systems, and a capacity to discern challenges in the translation of theories into practice.
Know how to locate, interpret, and apply reliable evidence from multiple sources, both qualitative and quantitative, to organizational problem solving.
Analyze the political, financial, competitive, and global aspects of health care organizations and assess the influence of external developments on the organizations in which they have, or aspire to have, leadership roles.
Bridge, both conceptually and institutionally, the worlds of clinical-care medicine and population-based health improvements.
Our program allows you to learn about leadership development, improve your technical knowledge, and participate in a unique, online learning experience
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
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai developed its MS in Health Care Delivery Leadership to provide health care professionals with the knowledge and skills required to meet today’s health care challenges. Unlike other programs that focus primarily on theory, this degree program is offered at the frontlines of health care delivery innovation. Icahn Mount Sinai’s world-class faculty use a combination of seminars, online classes, and applied projects so you can implement what you’ve learned. Our program is designed to help highly motivated health care professionals attain expanded leadership roles.
Offered by the Department of Population Health Science and Policy in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, our program relies on the vast resources of the Mount Sinai Health System. You can expect direct access to our faculty experts, many of them national leaders in health care reform. You will also receive extensive leadership training in areas such as:
Operations management and health policy
Strategic planning and communications
Efficient application of data and technology
Clinical innovations, health care economics, and finance
The program is designed with participants taking Hy-Flex classes (online or in person) in three, 12-week trimesters across 2 academic years.
Applicants to the Program must have a Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university. For complete program description and application materials please visit the website at: http://icahn.mssm.edu/mshcdl
HCDL students must read and continually reference the Student Handbook, Curriculum Guide, Advisement worksheet (course checklist) and sample curriculum to understand the expectations of the HCDL degree.
Students should contact the MSHCDL staff with questions regarding policies and procedures, degree requirements, and questions regarding the Program. For issues related to tuition, course registration, program withdrawals, leave of absence or more, please contact the Office of Student Financial Services and Registrar, respectively.
Contact information:
Advisement: Brian J. Nickerson, PhD, JD, FACHE
Senior Associate Dean for Master’s Programs and Program Director
Email: brian.nickerson@mssm.edu
General: Herb Lopez
Administrative Manager
Email: herb.lopez@mssm.edu
We focus on the practical application of these curricular elements. As the culmination of your study, you will be required to complete a capstone project: a health care improvement project using lean and other management principles, addressing an important management problem faced in either your employer’s organization or another host institution. Your project will have real-world impact.