The Health Care Administration program is designed to prepare health care administrators to identify a problem or potential problem area, or an area for analysis and intervention, recognize the constraints and limitations to intervention and change, and propose alternative outcomes in the health care industry. The program is designed to prepare health care administrators to analyze a preferred decision and recommendation based on a strategic plan, organization objectives, external environment, regulations, ethics, threats, and opportunities that can be used to make health care more efficient.

HCA5012 — Heath Care Financial Management

This course presents an in-depth review of the budget formulation process specific to health care delivery systems. It explores various funding sources and payment methods.

HCA5013 — Health Care Legal and Ethical Issues

This course explores the some of the legal and ethical issues affecting health care in America. The course includes an introduction and overview of key legal concepts and the exploration of selected issues including Financing Indigent Care, Patient Rights, Refusal of Treatment. Tort Reform, End-of-Life Decision Making, Termination of Life Support, Do Not Resuscitate Orders and Patient and Provider Relations.

HCA5014 — Health Care Policy Analysis and Development

This course provides the Learner with an overview of the factors, which govern and impact the development of health care policy in America. Policies that help shape the organizational structure of Health care and its impact on other healthcare systems abroad.

HCA5015 — Health Care Administration Principles and Practices

The course focuses on development of the skills necessary to administer a modern complex multi-faceted health care delivery system. The course will cover management theory and models, motivational theory, goal setting, organizational theory, and development of an effective management approach to resolve problems associated with administering a health care delivery system.

HCA5017 — Total Quality Management in Health Care

This course is designed to provide Learners with a comprehensive study of total quality management and its philosophy of continuous quality improvement in all business and clinical functions, including problem-solving, and patient satisfaction.

HCA5019 Managed Health Care Systems

The purpose of this course is to prepare students to assume roles in the management dimensions of HMO/PPOs in the private-for-profit/not-for-profit and publicly sponsored HMOs.

HCA5021 — Comparative Health Care Systems

This course is designed to profile the health systems of 28 countries and, regardless of their level of wealth, explore their struggle to manage the multiple demands and pressures of delivering health care. The countries selected represent different regions of the world in various stages of economic development. Each country is presented not simply in terms of the population, health status indicators, and health system characteristics, but also in view of a critical appraisal of social and political trends and their implications for the health system.