This 5-week course will explore key concepts of strategic healthcare leadership in the larger healthcare system. The purpose of the course is to provide the student with advanced systems knowledge and skills to achieve significant strategic change in healthcare organizations. Leadership and innovation skills are applied to projects. This course will apply key concepts of strategic leadership to include key ideas, constituent engagement, and planning activities for implementation.
- Instructor: Chequeta Allen
- Instructor: Lisa Lommel
- Instructor: Kathryn Wise
This interprofessional course focuses on the foundations, components, and translation of research essential to advance innovation in health systems to improve evidence-based healthcare. This is a highly self-directed course that provides you with a structured opportunity to identify a healthcare topic of interest, select research articles on that topic, and use the scientific method to appraise scientific evidence. These learning activities will form the basis for your capstone project, a requirement for degree completion.
- Instructor: Laura Wagner
This foundation course presents an overview of the healthcare financial landscape, players, mechanics, and characteristics of reform. The course introduces core concepts of financial management including balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow streams and the managerial accounting building blocks of budgeting and planning. Students will participate in interactive and targeted assignments and case studies to translate financial concepts into tangible tools to assess, manage, and improve healthcare operations.Â
- Instructor: Melek Nasr Totah
This foundation course introduces students to core concepts and principles of leadership, teamwork, change management, creativity, and innovation. Using results from standardized assessment inventories, students will participate in tailored activities to strengthen their self-knowledge and skill acquisition for leadership development and professional advancement. Students will also engage in interprofessional group work and structured sessions to initiate their evidence-based quality improvement capstone project. Attendance at a 2-day on-campus seminar at the end of the quarter is required. Preparation for the on-campus intensive includes online pre-work activities throughout the quarter.
- Instructor: Mike Taigman
- Instructor: Lauren Williams
The Administrative Practicum occurs during quarters two and three at your healthcare organization. Working with an executive mentor, you will assess the organization’s culture in regard to safety, interprofessional teamwork, and adequacy of data for key health care indicators to execute your evidence-based project initiated in your application.
- Instructor: MARY DICKOW
- Instructor: Daniel Ramberger
- Instructor: Mike Taigman
- Instructor: Bob Wenz
This course will explore health care and public policy and its impact on health administration. Students will explore the importance of policy analysis and the impacts of policy on decision-making in their role as health administrators.
- Instructor: Linda Stephan
This 5-week course will explore key concepts of strategic healthcare leadership in the larger healthcare system. The purpose of the course is to provide the student with advanced systems knowledge and skills to achieve significant strategic change in healthcare organizations. Leadership and innovation skills are applied to projects. This course will apply key concepts of strategic leadership to include key ideas, constituent engagement, and planning activities for implementation.
Leaders in healthcare, the academy and policy-makers have called for a redesign of the US healthcare system to achieve high-quality and safe provision of care. The course will include an overview of key reports, proposals for change, and how interprofessional teams can create and maintain a climate of learning. The concepts of high reliability, equitable healthcare, and just culture will be examined and applied to case studies and health organizations.
- Instructor: Bob Wenz