Online Healthcare Management Degrees

Whether you're already working in the healthcare industry or just getting ready to begin your healthcare career, this is your opportunity to become involved in one of today's fastest-growing fields - healthcare management.

Where do healthcare managers work?

• Clinics
  
• Community health centers
  
• Health maintenance organizations
  
• Hospitals
  
• Nursing homes
  
• Physician practices
  
• Psychiatric hospitals
  
• Public health departments
  
• Rehabilitation centers
  
• Many other health-related organizations

Bachelor of Science Degree in healthcare management

When you graduate from online bachelors degree in healthcare management program, you’ll be prepared to work in a variety of entry-level healthcare management positions — as a physician’s office administrator, a nursing-care facility administrative assistant, a medical equipment sales and purchase representative, or as a staff employee at hospitals, government agencies or insurance companies. With experience, you’ll be ready to grow into positions such as department head or functional manager.

With a Bachelor of Science degree in Healthcare Management, you'll also have the educational credentials you need to work toward your master's degree and move into higher levels of healthcare administration.

As a student in the Healthcare Management online degree program, you'll:

• Understand basic management theory and practice through courses in management, accounting, finance, organization behavior and human resource management.
  
• Study health services management in courses that include public health issues, the structure and function of health organizations, leadership in healthcare organizations, health finance, health ethics and law, health economics, and healthcare marketing and strategy.
  
• Receive hands-on experience through an internship program with healthcare facilities that might include hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory care facilities, physician practices, and pharmaceutical and medical equipment companies.
  
• Learn to appreciate and work with different types of people through courses in verbal and written communication, psychology, sociology, and human growth and development.

• The Healthcare Industry
  
• The Ethical and Legal Aspects of Healthcare and Healthcare Management
  
• Decision Making
  
• Economics in a Global Environment
  
• Concepts in Organizational Behavior
  
• Statistical Analysis
  
• Management Accounting and Organizational Controls
  
• Financial Management

Master of Science in Nursing/Master of Business Admin/Health Care Management

The Master of Science in Nursing/Master of Business Administration/Health Care Management (MSN/MBA/HCM) program is designed to provide nurses with a unique blend of advanced nursing and business management skills needed to manage today's innovative health care delivery systems. The program combines essentials from both degree programs to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to enhance and support patient services.
The MSN/MBA/HCM program emphasizes the identification, analysis, and solution of complex management problems that require technical understanding and balanced decision making. Although a functional knowledge of accounting, finance, and management underlies the program, equal attention is given to the development of report writing, oral reporting, and group process skills.

Master's in Business Administration in Healthcare Management:

Online Master's in Business Administration in Healthcare Management is the way to take your healthcare career to the next level. Having your MBA tells employers you have the skills to succeed at an executive level.

Online MBA in Healthcare Management is designed to provide a unique, market-relevant combination of a comprehensive business education with real-world, healthcare-focused deliverables. This program is designed to turn managers into executives: to arm them with the knowledge, skills, and experience necessary to reach high-level success.

Some of the targeted courses:

• Systems in Healthcare (human behavior, inter-organizational perspective, medical needs, education, communication, and resources)
  
• Economics for the Global Manager
  
• Global Financial Management
  
• Business Research for Decision Making
  
• Leadership and Ethics for Managers
  
• Strategic Management
  
• A Managerial Approach to Marketing
  
• Health Policy (political factors, legislation, and media)

Graduate Certificate in Health Services Management

For students who wish to specialize in health services management without completing the entire MBA degree program, a certificate option is available. Those who have been admitted are eligible to receive a graduate certificate in health services management upon:

• satisfying all prerequisities for certificate courses chosen through practical experience, related coursework or completion of a self-study course (see center director for details)
  
• achieving a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.00 in the course.
  
• resolving all financial obligations to the School

For more information, choose the program you like from the right hand side and request complementary information.