Overview
Build advanced managerial skills to help your healthcare organization thrive.
Hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare organizations need forward-thinking leadership in order to deliver quality care. Build the advanced managerial skillset you need to provide innovative leadership with Herzing University’s new Post-Master’s Certificate in Healthcare Management. In less than 12 months of online study, you can learn to:
- Analyze the financial health of a healthcare organization
- Take a strategic, systematic approach to healthcare quality improvement
- Understand new healthcare information technologies and their application to record-keeping and care provision
- Strengthen your knowledge of legal, ethical, and compliance issues applicable to the healthcare sector
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Benefits
If you already hold an MBA or other business-related master’s degree, this short-term program offers the practical and theoretical knowledge you need to enhance your skills or even prepare to change sectors.
Benefits of the Post-Master’s Certificate in Healthcare Management include:
- Small classes focused on personal attention and practical application
- Instruction from the same industry-experienced faculty who teach our MBA courses
- Flexible and convenient online study
- Course content that focuses on industry-current practices and problems.
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Apply online, request information or call 1-800-596-0724 to learn more about Herzing's Post-Master's Certificate - Business Program
Curriculum
Post-Master's Certificate in Healthcare Management Curriculum
Our post-master’s certificate program covers 16 credit hours of course content and can be completed in one to three semesters. Apply your current understanding of healthcare to a leadership perspective, developing the skills and methods to manage employees effectively in a healthcare setting. Courses include:
- Healthcare Administration
- Health Information Management
- Global Business Perspectives
- Health Policy and Management
You will also have the option to choose one course from the following electives:
- Marketing and New Product Development
- Technology and Innovation
- Project and Operations Management
Required Courses
All courses, 16.00 semester credit hours, are required.
This course focuses on the role of marketing and the marketing department in adding value to the organization. Major elements of the marketing process to be covered include domestic and global market assessment, strategic marketing planning, the development of an effective marketing mix (product, price, promotion, and distribution) to create customer value, consumer/business buying behavior, and market research.
This course introduces students to the knowledge and skills needed to manage technology organizations in an increasingly competitive global environment through the successful use of innovation and creativity. The course provides a consistent process for the formulation, implementation, and assessment of technology business strategy and presents a framework for the birth, growth, maturation, and decline of business innovation. Students will analyze technology issues in various business sectors throughout the course and develop findings and recommendations.
This course provides students with the tools needed to manage operations and projects within an organization. Topics include demand forecasting and management, capacity planning and scheduling, inventory control, purchasing and materials management, facilities management, project management strategies and tactics, defining user needs and project scope, scheduling and budgeting, and performance objectives. Control methods, such as PERT/CPM, Gantt charts, project management software, and project audits, will also be covered.
This course explores the major components and organizational interrelationships in the U.S. healthcare delivery system across the continuum of care. Topics include the history of the delivery system, delivery institutions and models, policy implementation, and payment mechanisms. Variables of access, cost, and quality are introduced. Application of these topics in the areas of healthcare reform, social and cultural changes that affect the system, and alternative healthcare allow students to analyze critically these evolving healthcare issues.
This course provides an overview of the role of information systems in healthcare organizations. Students will explore the technical, organizational, and cost-benefit issues related to healthcare information systems, including clinical decision support, integrated networking and distributed computing technologies, telemedicine applications, and artificial intelligence solutions. Students will develop and exercise analytical skills for appraising health information systems and will acquire practical experience using biomedical research databases, desktop application software, and electronic communication systems.
In this course student will evaluate major global challenges that business are faced with. Emphasis will be on economic, political and cultural characteristics of different regions and how they impact the business landscape locally and globally. Impacts in multiple functional roles will be considered, specifically in the areas of marketing, human resources, finance, healthcare, business intelligence, technology and project management.
This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to guide students in evaluating healthcare policy issues that impact decision making and outcomes in healthcare. Students will explore healthcare delivery systems and analyze issues which impact the delivery of healthcare and nursing at global, national, and state levels of government. Students will analyze the development, formulation, and implementation of policies and related economic issues that can influence healthcare practice today. In addition, the course includes topics such as the relationship between healthcare providers and patients, insurance policies, quality management, legislative liability issues, ethical decision making, and other policy issues.
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This program prepares an existing or emerging organizational or team leader with the necessary skills and academic knowledge for management positions in various business enterprises. These career opportunities focus on areas related to healthcare management. Application of theory to practice is emphasized through a problem-based/solutions-based curriculum, grounded in a framework of ethical leadership and global competition.
Requirements
Admission Requirements
Herzing University's Post-Master's Certificate programs are open candidates who have completed a Master’s degree or higher in a business related discipline from an accredited institution.