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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.


Athena Title

Intro to Healthcare Management


Equivalent Courses

Not open to students with credit in HPAM 3500E


Pre or Corequisite

PBHL 3100 or permission of department


Semester Course Offered

Offered fall


Grading System

A - F (Traditional)


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


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