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The distinctive leadership development program will give you access to industry tools and diagnostics used by Fortune 500 executives.
You will benefit from being part of a community and extensive professional network. Faculty, colleagues and alumni—business leaders, health care experts and entrepreneurs—will become part of your career network.
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Lolita Kelso Vanderbilt Master of Management in Health Care 2010 Nurse. Manager. World Shaper. Like many health care professionals, Lolita Kelso, who was trained as a nurse, had spent her career “thinking,” as she puts it, “through a medical mind.” And, like many health care professionals who take on management roles, Lolita needed to adapt her thinking after she became responsible for overseeing sitters, companions, home health aides and nurses under the private duty division of Vanderbilt Home Care…
The Vanderbilt Master of Management in Health Care is a one-year program that equips health care professionals and practitioners with the business fundamentals and decision-making skills to manage people, programs and processes in today’s dynamic health care environment. Our program is specifically
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designed to provide managers, health care practitioners and other executives who seek to complement
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their functional and clinical expertise with business knowledge and management skills. We give you the
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Meet one night per week, one weekend per month, for one year. The unique schedule and convenient Nashville location let you learn without disrupting your job responsibilities and career progression.
Through interdisciplinary, experiential learning, you will quickly learn how to manage as part of a leadership team, attack problems from new angles and propel yourself into a leadership position in your organization.
“My Owen experience has been eye-opening. By ‘eye-opening’ what I mean is that the learning environment at Owen has fostered a different way of thinking about and approaching challenges that I face in my role as a surgeon-scientist.”
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business perspective to excel in the health care industry.
Our Promise To students:
To business:
Here is a place where you will be challenged to achieve your potential; find support as you shape your future; discover lifelong friends and mentors; and open doors to new possibilities.
Here is a place where you will find the men and women who have the skills, the drive, and the determination to move your organization forward.
To faculty and staff:
To alumni:
Here is a place where you can engage, think, reach, teach, influence people, and transform the world around you.
Here is a place that you can call home, build business relationships, and inspire those who follow to reach even higher.
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Vanderbilt’s rigorous curriculum is built around a core foundation of management and leadership skills and intense dive into health care industry specifics for you to learn the rigor of business and how it applies to your role in health care.
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You will benefit from collaboration between Vanderbilt business faculty and executives from top-tier health care organizations, who work together to help you learn about the issues that health care organizations deal with daily.
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Bridging the gap in health care management. Vanderbilt Master of Management in Health Care
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Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management Master of Management in Health Care 401 21st Avenue South Nashville, TN 37203-2422
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Telephone: 615.322.3120 Fax: 615.343.2293 Email: mmhc@owen.vanderbilt.edu
Lolita Kelso
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Vanderbilt is an equal opportunity, affirmative action university.
Vanderbilt combines a world-class business school, world-class medical center and world-class health care business community.
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You will be among a class of diverse peers—selected from a broad range of health care organizations and professions, specialties and areas of expertise—who can provide different health care and business perspectives.
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Along with renowned professors in a full range of business disciplines, Vanderbilt’s health care business faculty include distinguished researchers, one of the most knowledgeable experts in Congress on health care policy, a surgeonturned-Senate Majority Leader and the CEO of a major medical center.
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You will gain immediate and ongoing Return on Investment (ROI). Through our Apply-it-Now approach to learning, you can apply your new business knowledge and management skills immediately in your job to address real problems and opportunities.
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The Capstone Project gives you practical experience in applying your new knowledge. Under close faculty supervision, you and your team will address a real business problem, opportunity or initiative for a health care organization.