MSM - HCA Courses
MHCA640: Organizational Management and Leadership
This course combines theory and practice by encouraging students to learn traditional and contemporary leadership theories and apply them to the analysis of the behavior of leaders, colleagues, and subordinates. Through a variety of readings, cases, and exercises, students will examine numerous effective leadership models. Topics include the evolution of leadership; the leadership roles of strategy, vision and transformational change; the development of leaders; the leadership responsibilities of creating effective teams, organizations and cultures; the exploration of different leadership styles; and current popular approaches to leadership theory.
MHCA641: Managing Projects
Based on the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®), this course guides project leaders through the application of the project management process groups: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring & controlling, and closing. Key topics include project selection and scoping, time management, risk identification, quality planning, team building, and project communication.
MHCA642: Issues in Ethics for Healthcare
This course explores the field of healthcare ethics with an emphasis on positive ethics, virtue based ethics, human values, multidisciplinary and multicultural perspectives, along with personal/professional ethical development.
An essential component of engagement in the field of ethics is the student’s development of ethical attunement, awareness, and communicative capabilities to address complex and conflicting ethical issues within the healthcare context. Academic understanding is essential but not sufficient to engage as an active ethical agent.Topics include: Medical ethics paradigm, ethics of the good, moral development, professional ethical principles and codes, ethical decision-making, clinical, organizational, and business ethics.
MHCA643: Marketing Management in Healthcare and Service Sectors
This course introduces fundamental marketing principles with applications specific to the healthcare and service sectors. Students will develop a foundational knowledge of the marketing concept, marketing strategic planning, buyer behavior, market segmentation, marketing mix management, and control and assessment of marketing planning.
MHCA 644: Management of Information Systems in Healthcare
Information technologies continually change organizational operations. This course is designed to prepare students to meaningfully participate in dialogues and decisions that involve, or could profit from, use of information technologies. The issues and opportunities facing managers today in the healthcare industry will be explored from both the information technology and healthcare managers’ perspectives.
Casework focuses on the healthcare leader’s effective management of information technology, whether its purpose is for clinical application, finance, human resource, facilities, operations management, or strategic planning. Frameworks and methodologies to determine organizational needs, evaluate and select information technologies, plan for systems changes, and implement information technology in the healthcare setting will be investigated.
MHCA647: Legal Issues in Healthcare
The purpose of this course is to examine the background, foundation and ethical aspects of the United States’ legal system and the role of the legal and political environment as it affects the health care industry. Topics include: liability, negligence, taxation, antitrust, compliance and emergency care. This course will examine contemporary issues affecting the industry and local facilities.
The Strategic Capstone Project two-term experience is the culminating experience in the MSM-Healthcare Administration program. The student will demonstrate mastery of the interdisciplinary curriculum and execute a unique, practical solution to a real-world problem in an organizational setting.
MHCA608: Strategic Management/Capstone Project Part I (2 credits)
Part I is designed for students to develop a proposal and project plan in cooperation with the instructor and peers for their final capstone project. Each student will undertake a major investigation of a leadership and management challenge in the workplace, and propose a practical solution. Students will develop a plan that identifies timelines, resources, and additional information necessary for completion of the capstone project. This course is designed for students to map out their individual project for completion at the end of the program.
MHCA648: Financial Accounting for Healthcare
This course introduces and examines the fundamentals of financial accounting theories and practices and emphasizes asset and liability, measurement and reporting. Topics include: interpreting financial statements, balance sheets, income statements, leases and statement of changes in financial positions.
MHCA645: Organizational Communication, Negotiations & Conflict Resolution
This course examines the dynamics, constraints and skills needed in negotiation, collaboration, conflict resolution and leadership. It focuses equally on using communication, negotiation and collaboration in business operations and in resolving disputes in all aspects of our lives. The materials, concepts and skills can be used in the professional, social and personal lives of the students, including the all important negotiations they do with themselves. Theories of negotiation are examined through current literature and specific techniques are taught through simulated exercises and role plays. The course is drawn from the fields of business, law, psychology, education, administration and communication. Students learn about theories of communication, negotiation, collaboration, conflict resolution and leadership and about themselves as negotiators and leaders.
MHCA649: Financial Management
Prerequisite is MHCA 648 Financial Accounting for Healthcare. The goal of this course is to introduce financial decision-making and management techniques in a firm, including its relationship to financial markets and institutions. Topics include: balance sheet analysis, capital budgeting, working capital management, capital structure of the enterprise, business valuation and managing risk.
MHCA650: Strategic Planning and Policy
This course will examine the process of strategic planning. Organizations are undergoing a series of revolutionary changes, including vertical integration, horizontal consolidation, strategic alliances and joint ventures, entrepreneurial startups, and specialized niche networks. This course will critically examine changes and discuss the various strategic decisions and managerial skills needed to confront them in a variety of firms in organizations. The primary focus of the course is on the strategy of the business unit, which is the foundational level for competitive analysis, and an analysis of the issues central to the firm's short-term and long-term competitive success. Using a combination of case studies and industry field research, students will assume the roles of key decision-makers and/or advisors in analyzing these issues and offering recommendations for strategic change.
MHCA609: Strategic Management/Capstone Project Part II (4 credits)
Students will execute and present their final project. The student is expected to use evidence-based best practices and associated professional methodology. This capstone experience requires students to integrate principles, theories, and methods learned in courses required throughout their program. Written and oral component required.
