Become a healthcare leader with a post-graduate certificate

Program length: 8 months when attending full-time
100% online classes you can take right at home
Transfer up to 12 approved credits
16-credit program
Strengthen your knowledge of legal, ethical, and compliance issues applicable to the healthcare sector
Small classes focused on personal attention and practical application

Waived enrollment fee Classes start September 8th

Program

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

Classes Start August 9th

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Why Herzing

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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Enrollment fee WAIVED now through Sept. 30^th

Find out which degree program is right for you. Call 1-800-596-0724 to learn more about Herzing's programs.

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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.

BU 615 - Marketing and New Product Development 3.00

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.

or BU 620 Technology and Innovation Semester Credit Hours: 3.00 or BU 630 Project and Operations Management Semester Credit Hours: 3.00

BU 650 - Healthcare Administration 3.00

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.

BU 654 - Health Information Management 3.00

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.

BU 681 - Global Business Perspectives 4.00

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.

HA 610 - Health Policy and Management 3.00

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.

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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.

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