Apr 19, 2024  
2021 Graduate Catalog 1.2 (SUMMER-FALL) 
    
2021 Graduate Catalog 1.2 (SUMMER-FALL) [ARCHIVED CATALOG - Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Health Care Administration (M.S.)


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The Health Care Administration program offers a relevant, comprehensive education for the advancing practitioner and aspiring health care leader. In focusing on the unique, experiences of graduate students, each student is able to customize their program in specializations of acute care, long-term care, community health and wellness, and health care support services.

To enhance our program excellence, our faculty incorporate applied research design strategies in creating engaging discussion boards, work related projects, applied research papers, and critical thinking assignments that are meaningful and valued. Leadership, management, and the continuum of care are core principles that are integrated in each course.

Health Care Administration graduates will be prepared to:

  • Join the healthcare workforce with an ability to function at an administrative level
  • Provide leadership qualities demanded in diverse healthcare settings
  • Understand and apply best practices principles in the continuum of care
  • Guide themselves and others in “Character” development and engagement

The eight-week online format allows students to pace their plan of study to their personal and professional lives. Typically by taking 3 credits per eight-week session, students can be position ready in two years. 

Student Learning Goals

  • Appraise leadership attributes in professional work and academic forums.
  • Interpret systems thinking application in personal, team, and health care organization.
  • Evaluate best practices in critical thinking application and creativity in guiding applied research in health care organizations.
  • Explain project management design, development, and evaluation strategies in project.
  • Assess stakeholder interests in competitive and collaborative health care initiatives.

Academic Requirements (36 Credit Hours)


Note:


Advanced Seminar Policy: there must be no longer than one year between when a student completes HCA 612 Advanced Seminar and enrolls in HCA 675 Capstone. If one year or longer has elapsed since taking HCA 612 Advanced Seminar, students will need to retake HCA 612 Advanced Seminar at their own expense.

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