Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Management

Designed for healthcare professionals who want to extend their job opportunities to include administration, management, and leadership.

This degree program gives students the skills and knowledge to effectively and efficiently manage their healthcare organization’s operations.  Graduates of the program work in management positions across the healthcare continuum, including clinic/physician office manager, assisted living center administrator or marketing director, hospital department manager or program manager, Workers’ Compensation administrator, or health insurance claims examiner.  Graduates of this program will be able to move from a clinical role to a management position.

Students in this program can expect to learn how to:

• Base management decisions on a systems perspective for leading strategic, tactical, and operational direction of the healthcare organization,
• Strengthen skills in self-assessment as a communicator,
• Select appropriate strategies in managing organizational conflict,
• Use common data analysis concepts to interpret reports and evaluate data,
• Analyze market research needs, and plan and implement marketing programs for healthcare organizations,
• Establish and maintain high performing teams of healthcare providers who are responsible for carrying out the established plans of the operation,
• Apply a structured problem-solving model to organizational performance,
• Use financial management as a decision science,
• Interact with regulatory bodies that expect compliance from healthcare organizations, and
• Provide leadership by integrating involvement between the community and the healthcare organizations to meet common healthcare needs.