GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS HCA 6800 Healthcare Administration 3 Credits This course focuses on providing the learner with a systematic understanding of 21st century healthcare leadership and administrative skills. Learners review new healthcare leadership skills relative to complex systems, the inter-relationships among key stakeholders in the industry, cultural diversity, creative and intuitive problem-solving techniques, and corporate governance. Administrative topics concerning healing spaces and environments, culturally driven designs, “going green,” and innovative facility layouts are also covered. HCA 6802 Healthcare Compliance, Law, and Ethics 3 Credits This course focuses on providing the learner with the skills relative to healthcare compliance, the law, and ethics. Learners will learn how to develop, promote, and adhere to compliance, regulations, and policies. They will also learn how to assist healthcare information professionals to guide their departments and organizations to ethically and legally obtain optimal reimbursement, plus, develop systems for all aspects in protecting their patients, facilities, professional staff, and employees. HCA 6804 Healthcare Economics 3 Credits This course explores the healthcare profession from an economic and decision-making perspective as this industry continues to grow in size, both in dollars and relative to overall economic activity in the United States. Learners will explore areas of cost-effectiveness analysis, game theory, supply and demand factors impacting medical care, and staffing issues. In addition, the impacts of medical malpractice, regulations, technologies, HMOs, Medicaid, insurance provides, and types of intervention are also discussed relative to improving the student’s skills in the medical profession. HCA 6806 Managing Epidemiology 3 Credits This course focuses on providing the student with a challenging and focused understanding of epidemiology. The learner is introduced to both descriptive and analytic epidemiology. Relative to descriptive epidemiology, the learner will explore the characteristics and concepts that impact public health issues, states, and events. Concerning analytic epidemiology, learners will discover and quantify health associated diseases, learn to test hypotheses, and identify the causes of health-related diseases and illnesses. HCA 6812 Quality Control in Healthcare 3 Credits This course explores the healthcare industry’s need to reduce costs and improve quality. Healthcare delivery systems face a similar crisis, as did the U.S. automobile industry many years ago as healthcare consumers become more knowledgeable about healthcare costs and quality measurements associated with their products and services. Learners will examine performance improvement methods, process control, medical informatics, six-sigma, and statistical analysis for improving healthcare services. HCA 6814 Cultural Diversity in Healthcare 3 Credits This purpose of this course is to increase the learner’s awareness of the dimensions and complexities involved in caring for people from diverse cultural backgrounds. The student is exposed to effective cultural diversity skills and tools, plus, they will exam healthcare issues and perceptions from a broad social viewpoint. Students will investigate cultural health and illness traditions from multiple perspectives, to include American Indian, Alaska Natives, Asian, Black, Hispanic, and White populations.
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