| Course ID: | HPAM 3500. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Introduction to Healthcare Management |
Course
Description: | Public health professionals assume leadership roles in
organizations where they are responsible for planning,
organizing, staffing, coordinating, reporting, and budgeting of
activities. This course is designed to stimulate critical
thinking about modern public health administrative issues and
develop selected management techniques and perspectives. |
| Oasis Title: | Intro to Healthcare Management |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in HPAM 3500E |
| Pre or Corequisite: | PBHL 3100 or permission of department |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Describe management functions, organizational concepts, and
roles related to the public health sector and its external
environment and differentiate between management and
leadership.
2. Describe the strategic planning sequence, and identify the
components of a strategic plan, and explain how planning
differs from forecasting.
3. Apply the principles of program planning, development,
budgeting, management, and evaluation in organizational and
community initiatives.
4. Analyze the various kinds of managerial communication that
facilitate leading and controlling performance, to include
barriers and flow.
5. Apply the management concepts discussed in the course in
light of the characteristics of an ever-changing health care
environment.
6. Examine their own management philosophy and style in light of
the course content and establish goals and strategies to develop
and sustain their management capacity. |
| Topical Outline: | -Course Overview
-Overview to the Health care System: Healthcare in the United
States
-Management and Managers: Types and Structures of Health
Services Organizations and Health Systems
-Healthcare Technology
-Ethical and Legal Environment
-The Practice of Management in Health Services Organizations
and Health Systems
-Managerial Problem Solving and Decision Making
-The Quality Imperative
-Strategizing
-Marketing
-Controlling and Allocating Resources
-Designing
-Leadership and Communication |