Allied Health: Healthcare Administration (AHHA)
AHHA 5103 Introduction to Healthcare Administration
This course explores theories, methods, and tasks essential to successful healthcare administration. Topics include the dynamic environment of healthcare, decision- making, adaptation, teambuilding, and healthcare delivery systems, as well as, managerial and leadership functions.
AHHA 5113 Healthcare Informatics-Data Driven
Decisions This course explores the world of healthcare information by examining health information fundamentals, scope, definition, and alignment in order to make data-driven decisions in a dynamic environment or healthcare. Other topics include strategic and tactical planning, application, implementation, and management of technology, data management, and analytics in business and clinical intelligence.
AHHA 5213 Ethics in Health Administration
This course is designed to explore ethical principles for future healthcare administrators. Students will examine evidence-based and interprofessional literature to analyze ethical issues in practice through the exploration of foundational theories and how these apply to change, regulation, technology and fiscal responsibility in healthcare.
AHHA 5233 Healthcare Policy and Law
This course explores an overview of health policy and law, discusses essential issues in health policy, and law, and reviews basic skills in health policy analysis. Topics covered include policy and the policymaking process, law and the legal system, individual rights, insurance, government health insurance programs, health reform, policy analysis, and policy advocacy.
AHHA 5303 Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety
This course provides foundational knowledge for health professionals to make decisions regarding quality improvement and patient safety. Learners will examine models, tools, methods, and data relating to quality and patient safety issues. Quality improvement methodologies, such as, Lean, Six Sigma, and evidence- based management for healthcare quality will be explored.
AHHA 5313 Leadership for Health Professionals
This course focuses on the practical leadership and management skills required for working in complex healthcare environments. An overview of leadership theories, styles, competence, applications, and responsibilities and other topics are covered.
AHHA 5323 Strategic Management in Healthcare
This course focuses on the development of systematic strategic thinking, strategic planning, and strategic momentum to evaluate external forces, internal forces, and the organizations’ mission, vision, values, and goals in order to develop strategies for success in complex health environments. This course is developed for seniors in their final semesters.
AHHA 5993 Healthcare Administration Capstone
This capstone course is designed to enable students to integrate the concepts, techniques, knowledge, and skills for all areas of healthcare administration derived from prior coursework. Students will address current management issues for health services organizations and prepare to enter the world of healthcare administration. This course is developed for seniors in their final semester.