Course Outcomes and Relevant Coursework
Take a look at some projects and assignments completed throughout my program
U.S. Healthcare Systems
HCA 700
Outcomes
- Explain how the evolution of healthcare has resulted in disparate services that lack the components and operations of a system
- Examine the various healthcare payment systems and how each contribute to the functioning of healthcare today
- Analyze how the financial and cultural incentrives in the healthcare system today diverges from and is consistenet with supporting population health outcomes
- Utilize knowledge gained from the course to describe likely changes to the healthcare system
Population Health and Epidemiology
HCA 705
Outcomes
- Interpret the broad definition of health and health determinants at the individual, patient, and polulation level
- Recognize the principles of epidemiology as a basic science for medical research, evidence-based clinical practive, and public health practice
- Identify the main study designs, methods, statistical inferences, and basic methodology terminology in clinical and epidemiology research
- Interpret the different and complementary nature of individual-and population-based strategies for prevention
- Design basic strategies to identify and address health needs and health disparities of a patient population
- Apply epidemiology/biostatistics to the evaluation of healthcare quality
- Analyze the basic features of U.S. healthcare and public health systems
Communications and Marketing in Healthcare
HCA 710
Outcomes
- Explain how the evolution of healthcare has resulted in disparate services that lack the components and operations of a system
- Examine the various healthcare payment systems and how each contribute to the functioning of healthcare today
- Analyze how the financial and cultural incentrives in the healthcare system today diverges from and is consistenet with supporting population health outcomes
- Utilize knowledge gained from the course to describe likely changes to the healthcare system
Healthcare Technology, Data, Analytics, and Information Governance
HCA 715
Outcomes
- Differentiate evolving technologies, data analytics and data governance needs across diverse healthcare delivery settings.
- Demonstrate critical thinking, analysis and problem solving skills appropriate to unique healthcare settings.
- Apply tools and techniques of continuous quality improvement and risk management for operations, supply chain and project management in diverse healthcare settings.
Healthcare Financial Management
HCA 720
Outcomes
- Demonstrate critical thinking, analysis, and problem solving skills appropriate to unique healthcare settings.
- Develop, track, manage, and explain healthcare capital and operating budgets.
- Assess and apply a variety of payment and reimbursement models appropriate for unique healthcare settings.
- Effectively apply financial management and reporting skills for making operational and strategic decisions appropriate for unique healthcare settings.
Human Capital Management
HCA 730
Outcomes
- Define organizational culture and climate's impact on individual and group organizational behavior and performance.
- Assess how individual and organizational core values influence employee engagement, productivity, and profitability using a people centered approach to organizational culture framework.
- Identify sources of human capital data and explain how they are used in strategic human capital management to ensure competitive advantage.
- Analyze issues informed by human capital and business strategy methodologies that sustain organizational learning, continuous improvement, and high performance in diverse healthcare settings.
- Design and evaluate programs and initiatives that address diverse talent needs for diverse healthcare organizations, including talent acquisition, development, and retention to ensure competitive advantage.
- Evaluate strategies to effectively manage people, ensure continuity of leadership to build and sustain high performance people centered organizations across diverse healthcare settings.
- Demonstrate leadership and communication skills necessary to build and sustain high performance people centered organizations for diverse healthcare settings.
- Determine the impact of aligned human capital management, operational systems, and talent development practices in people centered organizational cultures.
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Healthcare Operations and Project Management
HCA 740
Outcomes
- Critique various healthcare operations while identifying potential alternative practices that could be applied using continuous quality improvement tools, risk management, supply chain and/or other operational management techniques unique to health care organizations.
- Articulate, document, and evaluate operational processes in healthcare facilities.
- Apply operations management principles to improve healthcare processes for various unique healthcare settings.
- Utilize inventory management and scheduling techniques in healthcare facilities.
- Analyze healthcare supply chains for performance and efficiency.
- Execute evaluations of a variety of mock and real facilities operational performance.
- Work individually and in collaborative groups producing both healthcare projects and developing universal processes applying health care operational and managerial tools.
- Construct project charter, project schedules, and project plans for healthcare projects.
- Manage scope, time and budgets for healthcare projects.
- Analyze risks and arrive at a risk management plan for healthcare projects.
- Develop communication plans for healthcare projects.
- Determine project acceptance criteria and evaluate project quality for healthcare projects.
- Share results from healthcare projects and evaluations of facility operations with stakeholders and classmate peers.
Healthcare Quality and Performance Improvement
HCA 750
Outcomes
- Understand qualitative and quantitative continuous improvement tools and their use.
- Understand the use of continuous improvement tools across a spectrum of healthcare applications.
- Evaluate how metrics and measurement have been used to drive continuous improvement across a spectrum of healthcare applications.
- Discuss the strategic planning, implementation, and sustainment of continuous improvement in the healthcare sector as a function of the use of continuous improvement tools.
Health Law and Policy
HCA 760
Outcomes
- Evaluate legal issues in healthcare.
- Assess ethical dilemmas in healthcare.
- Appraise the regulatory framework of the healthcare system.
- Distinguish the impact of political structure on healthcare policy.
- Formulate strategies to engage in policy advocacy for healthcare organizations.
Organization Development and Strategic Leadership in Healthcare
HCA 770
Outcomes
- Demonstrate professional communication and interpersonal skills appropriate for healthcare settings.
- Students will develop emotional intelligence skills resulting in ability to conduct crucial conversations and engage in conflict resolution.
- Demonstrate strategic leadership and decision-making skills necessary in healthcare.
- Address political, legal, regulatory and ethical issues associated with diverse healthcare settings at all levels of government.
- Analyze and respond to trends that influence social and environmental determinants of health, population health management/medicine, and healthcare delivery in rural versus urban settings.
- Students will implement change management and innovation strategies that impact healthcare access, quality and costs.
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Current and Emerging Topics in Healthcare
HCA 780
Outcomes
- Critique discussions related to the impact of social factors and the social determinants of health that influence the US healthcare system.
- Identify methods used to investigate controversial, novel, or emerging healthcare topics.
- Defend an opinion on critical issues facing the US healthcare system in the 21st century.
- Discuss the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases and evaluate the factors contributing to these trends; understand the burden of disease.
- Evaluate the global health impact of natural disasters and emergencies.
- Explain the impact of technology on the healthcare industry
- Analyze the factors necessary to create a more equitable healthcare system.
- Compare the government's impact on health regulations and reform in various healthcare systems.
- Discuss common ethical principles applied to critical healthcare issues.
- Explore the differences between various healthcare providers and setting of rural and urban health needs.
- Design tools to engage in contemporary healthcare debates in order to develop tactics and strategies that will help influence health care decisions on a personal and organizational level.
- Defend the healthcare system, politics, and healthcare administrator's role.
- Understand the role of healthcare administrator's role in a variety of sets/settings in relationship to health issues.
