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Healthcare Administration
Healthcare Administration
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Curriculum

As a student in the healthcare administration program, you will be provided with rigorous, well-rounded training in management, leadership, information technology, quality assurance, ethics, and policy.

Elective credits enable you to choose a concentration as a generalist, a concentration in practice management, or a concentration in long-term care - one of the fastest growing fields in the healthcare industry.

The sequence of courses below is reflective of the course of study for students who already hold an associate degree. Students without an associate degree are encouraged to contact Admissions to determine the degree completion pathway that's right for you! 

Have you already taken college courses toward a bachelor's degree? You may be eligible for transfer credit for courses you've previously completed elsewhere. You can read more in our Transfer Credit Policy.

Professional Courses

3 credits

This course explores legal theories, trends, practices, and issues in healthcare. The course will emphasize communication, documentation. and conflict resolution as well as how the law affects healthcare assessment and practice. 

3 credits

This course explores economic and financial theories, trends, and issues as they affect contemporary professional healthcare practice. The course is designed to provide the student with the knowledge and skills to understand how economic and financial systems apply to health assessment. It will provide an overview of the health system in the United States as well as a comparison to other systems such as Canada, United Kingdom and Europe. It will cover basic and applied principles of finance to the healthcare industry including insurance reimbursement, government programs, private pay, employer, employee, and individual burden. Students will also learn how to develop and manage a budget including forecasting and reporting.

3 credits

Interdisciplinary communication within the present-day healthcare arena encompasses many forms. The professional healthcare provider and administrator as an effective communicator has to be able to deliver clear and concise communication, which is essential to safe patient care. This course will examine the role and impact that effective communication skills have on patient care outcomes and in clinical practice. In addition, communication and informatics as they relate to professional healthcare workers will be explored.  The importance of collaboration on an interdisciplinary team providing care will be explored including how the perspectives and methods of specific healthcare professionals, that is, inter-professional practice, assure effective and holistic caregiving.

3 credits

The course is designed to provide the student with the knowledge and skills to perform a comprehensive health assessment. This course will expand upon prior knowledge of health assessment and will address cultural, developmental, psychosocial, environmental and societal factors inherent in promoting health across the lifespan. Techniques of data collection and documentation will be expanded upon to enhance critical thinking skills.

3 credits

Professional Development and Supervision in Healthcare is a bridge course for students. Core concepts of professional practice are explored and analyzed within the framework of selected theories, trends, and issues of contemporary professional healthcare practice. The course explores the challenges of entrepreneurial leadership, developing one’s own talent and the talent of others and building teams.  Effective leaders must know themselves to develop talent within their team and to lead others through example and influence. Attention is given to leading up, down, and across teams and the organization. Topics include behavior of effective (and ineffective) leaders; management for the first-time manager; recruitment, training, development, retention and release; setting goals and objectives; developing reporting tools, reports, processes and structures; and communicating progress, results, issues and concerns.

3 credits

This course will explore key organizational structures and operation of healthcare within the United States with a focus on quality of healthcare and error reduction. This course will provide an overview of the functions of leadership and management within a changing healthcare environment. Emphasis will be placed on current issues that affect leadership and management in the practice setting. The science of management and the integration of leadership principles are explored within the context of clinical microsystems.

18 credits

The Professional Course Electives can be satisfied by transfer credit, or taken at Labouré College of Healthcare. These credits are any professional courses in healthcare administration not listed in the professional core curriculum, and may include any of the courses listed under the Elective Concentrations below. 

Courses listed in the core curriculum cannot also count for elective credits

Elective Concentrations

Generalist Concentration

3 credits

The ability to understand the conceptual and practical aspects of biostatistics and epidemiology in health care is critical to understanding research and analyzing population data about disease. This survey course will improve the ability of the student to understand and apply these concepts. Prerequisite - MAT 3410 

3 credits

This course examines and analyzes alternative and integrative medicines and their impact on the healthcare industry. The approach to the subject is to present selected alternative and integrative medicine fields in an informative, non-judgmental format. Example topics include acupuncture, chiropractic, herbal medicine, homeopathy, massage and naturopathic medicine. 

 

 

3 credits

The course will examine a variety of general concepts and contemporary discussions in the area of nutrition as it applies to personal health through analysis, discussion and evaluation of physiological, economic, environmental and cultural factors as they apply to nutrition choices for individuals, groups and families. Many of the concepts learned in this course can be applied to the patient counseling and advisement health care providers are asked to perform. 

3 credits

This course examines global health from an interdisciplinary perspective, critically examining the role that political, social, economic, and environmental factors contribute to global health outcomes. Topics such as health security, health inequalities, climate change, and nutrition, as well as communicable and non-communicable disease burden, will be examined. The course will review the literature on underlying factors that contribute to the disparities seen in health status among different populations and will be challenged to use evidence-based research to develop practical ideas to improve global health outcomes. 

3 credits

This course examines the disparities in health status and health care in the United States. The course will review sociological, epidemiological, demographic and racial and ethnic factors that contribute to the disparities seen in health status among different populations. Students will critically examine the current research on health disparities and will be challenged to use theoretical frameworks used in this course to develop practical ideas to reduce health disparities in their community.   

3 credits

Community and behavioral health build on a biopsychosocial model of health and wellbeing. With a focus on the sociological and psychological factors associated with physical, mental, and social health, this course develops the knowledge and skills needed to work with communities to improve the health status of diverse communities. Major topics will include health promotion and disease prevention.  

Long Term Care Concentration

3 credits

The Introduction to Senior Living course is designed to provide the student with an understanding of the continuum of senior care services available in this sector of the healthcare industry from Homecare and innovative Residential Care to types of Assisted Living Facilities and associated Specialty Units to traditional Skilled Nursing Facilities and Hospice.  The student will become familiar with issues related to the integration and coordination of continuum services, the regulatory and legal environment, Public Health issues and in particular their impact on the social-emotional well-being of seniors in facilities and their families. 

3 credits

Management of Senior Facilities and Services course is designed to provide the student with an understanding of what it takes to run an Assisted Living Facility.  The student will learn about Independent and Assisted Living Facility Business and Operational Processes, Credentialing and Liability, Marketing, Dietary Services, Nutritional Services, Wellness Care Coordination, Therapeutic Arts, Specialty Units, Building Maintenance, and Housekeeping and Administration.  The course will weave in a discussion on Dementia and how it affects the patient and the family members as they navigate toward safe placement in an Assisted Living Specialty Unit.   

3 credits

Students will focus on the management and administration of services which meet the medical and non-medical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods. 

3 credits

This course highlights the major legislative and policy changes over the past few decades that regulate long-term care services and facilities. It focuses on the standards that are set by agencies including monitoring the quality of care and establishing rules for licensing staff. It is important for long-term care providers and administrators to understand what standards are monitored and how a particular facility or agency measures up to the requirements.  

3 credits

Recurring quality issues in long-term and post-acute care nursing homes and residential care facilities are often highlighted in the press and government research studies. This course will focus on the key issues related to long-term services and supports and how to ensure the use of quality measures.  

3 credits

Long-term care staff need to understand the aging, bereavement, trauma, and grief processes in order to recognize when guided interventions are needed. This course will help students develop strategies specific to supporting long-term care residents and introduce students to the critical skills necessary to work with grieving individuals, groups, caregivers and families. 

Practice Management Concentration 

3 credits

This course explores the practice management processes of a physician practice including types of health care providers, patient visit process, leadership, effective communications, office triage, and scheduling. Topics covered will include the application of operations management, queuing theory, the HITECH Act, meaningful use, and simulation to analyze and manage patient flow in health care organizations.  

3 credits

Leadership plays a key role in adopting practices to promote patient safety and leaders should have the skills necessary to be effective in the implementation of these practices. This course will focus on patient safety through a study of safety-oriented leadership, organizational culture, human factors, decision making science, communication, and a systems approach to health care delivery. Current best practice models and the latest professional literature emphasizing patient safety will be featured.   

3 credits

This course explores management principles and practice within healthcare organizations. Topics include basic principles related to motivating employees, performance management, and communication. Practical application will include critiquing current managerial practices in a variety of healthcare organizations.  

3 credits

 The goal of risk management is to improve the quality of patient care. This course focuses on how to optimize patient outcomes and emphasizes the prevention of patient care problems including quality initiatives that will ensure long-term and post-acute care improvements. 

3 credits

This course examines how to manage human resources effectively in the dynamic legal, social, and economic environment currently constraining health care organizations. Taught from the perspective of strategic management and in the context of the legal environment for healthcare organizations, topics will address managerial theory and application, including management styles, personnel records and management, hiring and termination process, compensation and benefits laws, labor laws, employee performance evaluation, provider credentialing. 

The Healthcare Revenue Cycle includes the set of all administrative and clinical functions that contribute to the capture, management, and collection of patient service revenue. This course will examine financial management processes of a physician practice including revenue and expenses cycles. Topics covered will include revenue cycle management and analysis of reports, accounts receivable, collections, denials management and bad debt management. 

Arts & Sciences Courses

3 credits

This course introduces the various methods used to collect, organize, summarize, interpret and reach conclusions about data. An emphasis is placed on demonstrating that statistics is more than mathematical calculations. By using examples gathered from real life, students learn to use statistical methods as analytical tools to develop generalizations and meaningful conclusions in their field of study.

3 credits

The Ethics Elective is satisfied by transfer credit or taken at Labouré College of Healthcare.

Students who do not receive transfer credit for this course and must satisfy the Ethics Elective with a Labouré course may do so by choosing the following course: 

  • ETH 3210: Ethical Domains and Dilemmas

12 credits

These 12 credits must be in the areas of Humanities, Social Science or Natural Science courses. Students can complete these electives through transfer credit, taking them at Labouré College of Healthcare, or a combination of both. 

For students taking these courses at Labouré College of Healthcare, they may select some of the following: 

3 credits

This Arts and Sciences elective may be satisfied through transfer credit or taken at Labouré College of Healthcare.

4 credits

The Senior Capstone demands reflection, insight, and synthesis. This is a transdisciplinary course taught by both an Arts and Sciences professor and a Health Profession professor. This teaching team will assist the student to investigate, demonstrate, and synthesize course and program learning for problem solving and applications of undergraduate coursework across the entire curriculum. This course synthesizes concepts throughout the disciplines to create a unified framework for developing pathways for understanding the value, applications, and transferable use of the cumulative study at Labouré College of Healthcare. Students demonstrate collective competencies; pedagogical, practical, and personal advancement for the benefit of self and others; personal and professional growth that reflect cognitive and emotional intelligence; and knowledge and understanding of lifespan challenges and choices. Future contexts of professional growth are considered. Students will complete a professional portfolio to demonstrate achievement of program outcomes. 

Learn more about this program

You'll be able to download our program info sheet and receive an email from our Admissions team with information about the admissions process, tuition, courses, and more.