Healthcare Administration

See the program for School of Business for more information.

Classes

BUS 501: Advanced Business Dimensions of Healthcare

Credits 3

This course is designed for health care professionals and administrative personnel. It focuses on the application of business and management practices in a variety of health care settings. The student incorporates graduate level management concepts in executing a mid-level or senior management administrative role. Financial aspects are emphasized. Opportunities are provided to critique various management models within health care settings identified by the student. Students are encouraged to incorporate research findings into their work from professional organizations such as the American Nurses’ Credentialing Center project on magnet hospitals and other best practice settings. The course culminates with the student developing a business plan for a specific health care setting.

ENT 001: Transition to Graduate/Quantitative Studies

Credits 0

The purpose of this course is to explain the Felician Master of Science in Healthcare Administration program and prepare students to enter into the program of studies. This is a mandatory one session, four-hour, non-credit course that must be completed prior to the start of the program. Included in this course are:
the role of competencies in the Felician MSHA program;
an introduction to the requirements of creating a portfolio during the program;
an introduction to resources such as the library, Brightspace, and Peregrine
practical instructions
for current and future registration into courses;
outline of expectations of Felician MSHA candidates.

HCA /ENT 595: Competency Portfolio review and Assessment

Credits 3

Throughout the course of their participation in the program, students are expected to build a mastery of the MSHA course competencies of teamwork, effective communication, ability to synthesize and apply concepts, ethical decision making, and professionalism. In Lieu of a culminating thesis paper, the MSHA student demonstrates this mastery in a portfolio. The portfolio is composed of the student's reflections on his/her growth in each of the core competencies as well as samples of assignments and projects that demonstrate the student's application of each core competency,. In addition, students may use specific healthcare projects they have developed for use outside of the classroom. Students will present their portfolio to the Business School's faculty and members of the business community for review and assessment. This course is required for graduation.

HCA 510/QUAN 571: Statistical Analysis for Business

Credits 3
Statistics is becoming the language of business and the well-equipped manager must be conversant in it in order to make good decisions. This course focuses not only on the basic statistical methods used in the analysis of business problems but places emphasis on the appropriate use of statistical techniques, the correct interpretation of statistical data, and how to assess data with a healthy dose of skepticism.

HCA 515: Management and Structural Analysis of Healthcare Organizations

Credits 3
This course examines basic concepts relating to the organization, structure, and financing mechanisms of various health care settings. The notion of open systems will be scrutinized. Designing a transparent organization will be a primary endeavor along with the role of patient satisfaction surveys, report cards on quality outcomes, and other measures of success.

HCA 530: Advanced Leadership and Strategies

Credits 3
Healthcare organizations and professionals must be capable of leading value-based competitive organizations. Today’s healthcare environment requires healthcare administrators to shift from a perspective of being a health care provider to being part of a business. The purpose of Felician's Advanced Leadership and Strategies course is to provide the graduate student with the opportunity to develop their strategic leadership perspective and capabilities. This course introduces the components of strategic leadership, emphasizing mission, vision, and values as a cornerstone of strategy formulation. We will look at the practices, techniques, and processes for developing strategy, identifying strategic gaps, issues, and environmental threats and opportunities. We will investigate the roles governance and stakeholders play in strategy formulation; what the organizational structure should look like; leadership and change management. Case studies are used to develop an organizational perspective; to focus on the required leadership skills involved in identifying issues, evaluating options, and implementing plans; and, to provide students with the opportunity to adapt theory to real-life experience.

HCA 540: Human Resource Management in Healthcare Administration

Credits 3
Healthcare organizations that are geared toward the delivery of quality healthcare require human resource strategies that promote such goals. This course examines personnel practices and procedures relative to recruitment and retention of employees who can commit to such strategies and goals. The integrative role of the healthcare manager and the human resources specialist are also examined along with various legislative and organizational initiatives that serve to promote positive employee relations, dignity, respect, and equitable treatment.

HCA 590: Advanced Healthcare Policy

Credits 3
This course will focus on the health policy-making process within the context of the marketplace for healthcare services in the US. Emphasis will be placed on ways to influence the development and implementation of healthcare policies that frame health care financing, practice regulation, access, safety, quality, and efficacy. Values and preferences for making social choices within a pluralistic society will be considered.

HCA 620: Clinical Decision Making in Healthcare

Credits 3

Quantitative and qualitative data are the drivers for clinical decision making in healthcare. Healthcare administrators need to demonstrate use of analytical tools to guide their organization in the resolution of clinical issues. Quality and safety metrics well serve as roadmaps in the process. Use of evidence-based tools to frame best practice methods are part of this process. This course will utilize current methodologies and tools that guide best practice to ensure quality and safety in healthcare organizations. Emphasis will be on developing the necessary skills related to the role of healthcare administrator in ensuring quality and safety care within various  healthcare industries.. 

HCA 650: Principles of Project Management

Credits 3
This course focuses on best practice in project management and applies this to healthcare. The course considers project management tools, reports, outputs and methodologies and the mechanisms for controlling risks. The curriculum includes the procedures and tools used in: project initiation, planning and scheduling, managing people, time, costs, quality, contract negotiations, and program completions and close-outs. The course makes use of several case studies for active participation in the various phases of a project.