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Administrative Core | Health Services Core | Practicum | Capstone | Other Offerings

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Administrative Core

HA/PA 621 Quantitative Methods of Research
This course is a survey of behavioral and social science research methods for administrators. Emphasis is placed upon problem selection and identification, measurement, research design and data analytic techniques. (3 Credit Hours)

PA 622 Public Program Evaluation
This course is designed to provide students with the conceptual and analytical tools to evaluate the effectiveness of public programs and policies. The focus will be on program monitoring and evaluation. Of particular concern will be program process and outcome measurements; quasi-experimental design; multiple regression analysis; and analysis of variance models. (3 Credit Hours).

HA/PA 623 Decision Analysis and Decision Support Systems
This course is an introduction to organizational decision-making under conditions of certainty, uncertainty, risk, and multiple objectives. Concepts of analysis from the areas of economics, mathematics, probability, and statistics will be utilized in terms of administrative decision making in health administration. Course work includes use of various management information systems with a focus on how such systems can be used to support and inform decision-making. (3 Credit Hours)
Prerequisite: PA/HA 621

HA 624 Information Systems in Health Care
This class will focus on the life cycle approach to information systems development. Phases of this approach include systems analysis, design, implementation, maintenance, and evaluation. This approach has technological, financial, and human factors components. The decision-making and planning role of administration as well as the need of how to maximize the utilization of current systems is stressed. Topics include the information needs of the strategic planning process, administrative function, and clinical care. The course will involve site visits. (3 Credit Hours)
Prereq: HA 601, 602 and 642.

PA 628 Personnel Management in the Public Sector
The course will present an overview of career development, human resource planning, staffing, training and development in the public sector. (3 credit hours)

HA 642 Public Organization Theory and Behavior
This course examines the interaction of both external and internal resources and constraints upon the administrative decision processes in a number of public organizational settings. The objective is an understanding of the practice of administration in public organizations. (3 Credit Hours)

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Health Services Core

HA 601/PA 671/SPH 602 Overview of the Health Care Delivery System
This course is an introduction to the health care delivery system in the United States, including composition, functioning, the interrelationships of organizations and professional groups within the system in various settings, health care terminology, and major problems and issues in the delivery of health services. (3 Credit Hours)
Prerequisite: MHA/MPA program status.

HA 602 Organizational Change and Strategic Planning
This course is designed to focus on the future needs of the health care organization as contrasted to day-to-day operational management. Strategies for design and implementation of organizational change including techniques of quality and process improvement will be addressed. The strategic planning components of needs assessment, demands analysis, generation of alternative, priority setting, and evaluation form the basis of the course. Several health care trends such as restructuring, innovation in health care delivery and financing, and performance measurements will be illustrated through case analysis in a variety of provider settings. (3 Credit Hours)
Prerequisites: HA 601 and HA 621.

HA 603 Legal Aspects of Health Administration
This course will familiarize students with the application of law to management issues in health care organizations. Skills including terminology, legal reasoning, the tools of law, and topics specific to the health care setting are addressed. (2 Credit Hours)
Prerequisites: MHA program status and HA 601.

HA 604 Managerial Ethics
This class utilizes case studies to examine ethical dilemmas and advance ethical decision-making. The philosophical foundations of ethical decision-making are covered as well. (1 Credit Hour)

HA 635 Management Accounting for Health Care Organizations
This course is designed to introduce the use of management accounting techniques to decision making in health care organizations. Lectures, problems, and cases will be used to provide an opportunity to focus on the various types of health care providers. (3 Credit Hours)
Prereq: MHA/MPA program status and HA 601 and HA 621.

HA/ECO/PA 636 Health Economics
This course applies general theoretical principles of economics to the health care sector. The basic approach is to recognize the importance of scarcity and incentives, allowing for differences peculiar to health. The demand and supply of health and medical care are examined as they involve physicians, nurses, and hospitals. The competitiveness of their markets, health insurance, and the role of government are explored. Special topics include regulations and planning, benefit cost analysis, and reform health plans. (3 Credit Hours)
Prerequisites: The economics prerequisite can be met in three ways: (a) an undergraduate principles course in microeconomics and HA/PA 652; (b) an undergraduate microeconomics principles course and a graduate course in managerial economics; or (c) an undergraduate microeconomics principles course and an intermediate microeconomics course.

HA/FIN/PA 637 Health Finance
This course applies general principles of finance to the financial management of health care institutions. The major financial incentives that dictate how health care is delivered are studied, and proposals to change these incentives are explored. (3 Credit Hours)
Prerequisites: MHA/MPA program status and HA 601, HA 621, PA 623, HA 635.

HA 656 Health Program Evaluation
A study of the tools necessary for planning and evaluating health programs: planning systems, needs assessment methodologies, data analysis skills, the epidemiologic method, effectiveness and efficiency evaluation. An overview of trends and requirements leading to increased emphasis on planning and program accountability.
Prerequisites: MHA/MPA program status, HA 601, HA 621, PA 623, and HA 635.

HA 673 Health Policy Development
This course is designed to build on the concepts and techniques introduced in the MHA curriculum and to integrate them with a decision making focus in a variety of health care problems and settings. Case analysis will be used extensively to develop an opportunity for the student to learn to apply the appropriate skills to an unstructured environment. (2 Credit Hours)
Prerequisite: HA 601 and one of the following courses: HA 611, 621, or 622 and MHA/MPA program status.

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Practicum

HA 711 Practicum in Health Administration
Practical field experience in a health administrative setting under the direction of an academic and a workplace supervisor.
Prerequisite: MHA program status.

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Capstone

HA 660 Decision Making in Health Care Organizations

This course is designed to build on the concepts and techniques introduced in the MHA curriculum and integrate them with a decision making focus in a variety of health care problems and settings. Case analysis will be used extensively to develop an opportunity for the student to learn to apply the appropriate skills to an unstructured environment.
Prereq: MHA program status and must be taken in last semester of MHA program studies.

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Other Offerings

If a student has filled the requirements through transfer work or waiver other courses that may be taken to supplement the program are:

HSM 510 Organization of the Long-Term Care Sector
This course examines the structure and function of the long-term care sector with emphasis on nursing home and the role of non-institutional alternatives. Analysis focuses on the impact of changes in reimbursement and regulatory policy, inter-organizational relations. Prerequisite: MHA program status. (3 credit hours)

HA 622 Mental Health Administration
This course focuses upon the administration of local mental health agencies, facilities and coordination of deinstitutionalization programs, e.g., group houses, halfway houses. The course will focus upon system coordination, finance and communication.
Prerequisite: MHA/MPA program status.

HA 775 Special Topics in Health Administration
An analysis of selected issues with special significance for health administration. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. (Variable credit)
Prerequisite: MPA/MHA program status.

HA 785 Independent Study in Health Administration
Supervised individual research on a topic related to health administration selected by the student. The student must present a signed Independent Study Contract to the Student Affairs Office before they will be allowed to register. (Variable credit)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

GRN 643 Biomedical Aspects of Aging
A survey of the normal age-associated changes in biological function, the major disease entities found in the older population, and how the health care delivery system presently addresses these issues. Prerequisite: Graduate status or consent of instructor. (3 credit hours)

PA 680 Benefit-Cost Analysis
Principles, practices and applications of applied welfare analysis are the content of this course. The basic theory of benefit-cost analysis is presented and the relevance of implementation analysis in policy analysis is established. Prerequisite: PA 652. (Same as ECO 680.) (3 credit hours)