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Graduate Curricula
Students must remove themselves from academic
probation within their next two semesters. For
each C grade earned, there must be an offsetting
A grade. Only two C grades are permitted in the
graduate program. A third C grade or an F grade
results in academic dismissal from the program.
Any student dismissed from the MBAH program
due to academic deficiency can reapply after a
minimum of one elapsed semester. (Refer also to
grading policies and grade point determination).
Curriculum Requirements for the Master of
Business Administration in Health Care Degree:
Foundation Courses (9 semester credits): MBA
506, 507; MBAH 527; Core Courses (36 semester
credits): MBA 505, 621, 626, 635, 670, 675,
680, 685, 690, MBAH 756, 799, MBA 800;
Executive Courses (12 semester credits): Choose
four of the following: MBAH 636, 681, 686,
706, MBA 715, MBAH 758, 805.
Course Descriptions
MBAH 527. Economic Analysis in Health Care
Management
3 credits
Evaluates reimbursement strategies, social and
political factors that affect the usage of health
facilities and the payments of services, and
changes in patterns of use of health care
providers. Budgeting and financial management
are considered in relation to these issues. Trends
in business forecasting that influence both nonprofit
and for-profit organizations are studied.
MBAH 636. Legal Issues in Health Care 3 credits
Acquaints the health care student with the internal
and external legal environment faced by a
health care provider and its manager. This course
will look at malpractice, risk management, tort
law and tort reform, OSHA regulations, construction
organizational charters, bylaws, rules
and regulations, legal constraints on organizational
management, laws affecting subsidiary corporations,
internal and external legal environmental
for health care provider, tax law, human
resource laws and regulations in hiring/firing, and
benefit/retirement trust management.
MBAH 681. Strategic Marketing
in Health Care
3 credits
Builds upon the principles which were learned by
the student in the basic MBA Marketing
Management course. Health care organizations
and integrated delivery systems face challenges
from marketing in the health care field because of
traditional and historical biases which relate to
this industry. The use of advertising and promotion
has been taboo in the health care field, particularly
as relates to non-for-profit organizations
and physicians in medical practice. Prerequisites:
MBA 635, 680, MBAH 527.
MBAH 686. Health Care Professional
Management Issues
3 credits
Addresses issues related to health care professionals
and their interrelationships with other physicians,
health care administrators, therapists, nurses,
and patients. The course should look at medical
staff structure and functions, health care professionals
in administrative positions, as salaried
employees, and as leaders in health care organizations.
Prerequisites: MBA 621, 685, 635.
MBAH 706. Quality Management in
Health Care
3 credits
Quality of patient care has always been a primary
concern in health care delivery. Historically,
quality has been judged by experts in the field.
However, with the introduction of computers
and modern statistical analysis, quality evaluation
currently depends heavily on the collection
and manipulation of data. Improvement of quality
is evolving into system analysis and total quality
management. Health care managers must be
familiar with modern techniques of quality
improvement. The distinction between quality as
measured by the health professional and quality
as measured by industry will be analyzed. Case
studies and real-live examples will be used.
Prerequisites: MBA 505, 621 MBAH 756.
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