/ en /node/28146 <span>HCA 346 Leadership and Management in Healthcare</span> <span><span lang about="/user/711" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>dwaddell</span></span> <span><time datetime="2024-05-03T09:16:18-07:00" title="Friday, May 3, 2024 - 09:16">Fri, 05/03/2024 - 09:16</time> </span> <div class="wizzywig"><p>In this course, students will examine leadership and managerial theories as well as major issues facing each role in the healthcare industry. The course addresses foundational concepts such as organizational structure and design, program planning and evaluation, financially-sound decision-making, strategic planning, healthcare marketing, and supervisory relations. Through course activities, students will apply the concepts to real-world activities they may encounter in their future professions.</p></div> 3 <a href="/catalog/course-description/hca-health-care-administration" hreflang="en">HCA Health Care Administration</a> Fri, 03 May 2024 16:16:18 +0000 dwaddell 28146 at /node/5661 <span>HCA 415 Community and Public Health</span> <span><span lang about="/user/1" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>admin</span></span> <span><time datetime="2021-09-08T11:03:54-07:00" title="Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 11:03">Wed, 09/08/2021 - 11:03</time> </span> <div class="wizzywig"><p>Community and public health is an introductory course exploring community and public health services in the well-being of a population. Regulatory mandates promoting public and community health are explored. The interface among community and public health services and the overall health care industry is explored. Legal and ethical imperatives emergent in public health services are discussed. Financing options are explored recognizing the role of categorical fiscal resources. Health care promotion and prevention strategies are explored in concert with the role of health care institutions and the public sector. Health information data is utilized in the planning of a community and/or public health project. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the majority of major coursework.</p> </div> 3 <a href="/catalog/course-description/hca-health-care-administration" hreflang="en">HCA Health Care Administration</a> Wed, 08 Sep 2021 18:03:54 +0000 admin 5661 at /node/5656 <span>HCA 375 Continuous Quality Monitoring and Accreditation</span> <span><span lang about="/user/1" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>admin</span></span> <span><time datetime="2021-09-08T11:03:54-07:00" title="Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 11:03">Wed, 09/08/2021 - 11:03</time> </span> <div class="wizzywig"><p>In this course, students will explore foundations and concepts of health care accreditation and continuous quality improvement. Students will discuss the concept of quality assurance based on standards set by selected accreditation, regulatory, licensing, and certification programs. In addition, they will explore the interface of accreditation and reimbursement. Students will use health information systems to analyze health care accreditation, government mandates, and regulatory activities that impact consumer outcomes. Students will also analyze the legal implications of quality improvement and explore the social, political, professional, and organizational influences on health services delivery. Prerequisite: HCA 205.</p> </div> 3 <a href="/catalog/course-description/hca-health-care-administration" hreflang="en">HCA Health Care Administration</a> Wed, 08 Sep 2021 18:03:54 +0000 admin 5656 at /node/5366 <span>HCA 460 Health Care Administration Capstone</span> <span><span lang about="/user/1" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>admin</span></span> <span><time datetime="2021-09-08T11:03:54-07:00" title="Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 11:03">Wed, 09/08/2021 - 11:03</time> </span> <div class="wizzywig"><p>The Health Care Administration Capstone is designed to provide a comprehensive experience that enables students to apply their understanding of the concepts explored throughout the program. Students will integrate leadership skills, policies and procedures, rules, and regulations in the development of their work throughout the course. For the summative assessment in this course, students will need to demonstrate administrative competencies with managerial, legal, ethical, and financial concepts related to health care systems. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the General Education Capstone course and majority of major coursework.</p> </div> 3 <a href="/catalog/course-description/hca-health-care-administration" hreflang="en">HCA Health Care Administration</a> Wed, 08 Sep 2021 18:03:54 +0000 admin 5366 at /node/611 <span>HCA 444 Long-Term Care: The Consumer Perspective</span> <span><span lang about="/user/1" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>admin</span></span> <span><time datetime="2021-09-08T11:03:54-07:00" title="Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 11:03">Wed, 09/08/2021 - 11:03</time> </span> <div class="wizzywig"><p>This course examines the role and impact consumers have in long-term care decision making and provision of care. Factors and challenges influencing consumer choices are explored within the context of long-term care improvement in both institutional and community settings. Current topical issues such as customer/provider relationships and quality of care are overviewed in this course.</p> </div> 3 <a href="/catalog/course-description/hca-health-care-administration" hreflang="en">HCA Health Care Administration</a> Wed, 08 Sep 2021 18:03:54 +0000 admin 611 at /node/551 <span>HCA 442 Contemporary Issues in Aging</span> <span><span lang about="/user/1" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>admin</span></span> <span><time datetime="2021-09-08T11:03:54-07:00" title="Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 11:03">Wed, 09/08/2021 - 11:03</time> </span> <div class="wizzywig"><p>This course presents significant major interdisciplinary aging issues and controversies drawn from biological sciences, medicine, nursing, psychology, sociology, gerontology, public policy, and social work. With an emphasis on critical thinking, divergent views and perspectives of aging phenomenology are explored through the reading and research of selected articles and reports covering current topical content.</p> </div> 3 <a href="/catalog/course-description/hca-health-care-administration" hreflang="en">HCA Health Care Administration</a> Wed, 08 Sep 2021 18:03:54 +0000 admin 551 at /node/501 <span>HCA 421 Health Care Planning and Evaluation</span> <span><span lang about="/user/1" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>admin</span></span> <span><time datetime="2021-09-08T11:03:54-07:00" title="Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 11:03">Wed, 09/08/2021 - 11:03</time> </span> <div class="wizzywig"><p>This course explores the processes of operational and strategic planning, including the roles of organizational mission, vision, and values, regulatory legislation, demand for services, clinical staff needs, needs of a diverse population, competitive market analysis, and decision making in a competitive health care industry. Historical perspectives are covered along with current and future health care industry challenges. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the majority of program course work.</p> </div> 3 <a href="/catalog/course-description/hca-health-care-administration" hreflang="en">HCA Health Care Administration</a> <p>Successful completion of the majority of program course work.</p> Wed, 08 Sep 2021 18:03:54 +0000 admin 501 at /node/326 <span>HCA 322 Health Care Ethics and Medical Law</span> <span><span lang about="/user/1" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>admin</span></span> <span><time datetime="2021-09-08T11:03:54-07:00" title="Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 11:03">Wed, 09/08/2021 - 11:03</time> </span> <div class="wizzywig"><p>This course presents the ethical and legal implications for health care operations and the delivery of health care services. The unique legal aspects encountered in the provision of health services are analyzed. Legal and ethical issues challenging the provision of health care services will be explored. Students will analyze concepts regarding risk management, continuous quality improvement, guardianship designations, and institutional ethical structures. Additionally, students will learn how moral and ethical behaviors may conflict with medical law. Precedent-setting case studies of moral, ethical, and legal decisions are integrated into the course assignments to provide a foundational understanding of leadership decision-making in the health care setting. <em>Prerequisites: GRO 325, HCA 305, HCA 205, HPR 201, HPR 231 or NUR 300.</em><br> <br> &nbsp;</p> </div> 3 <a href="/catalog/course-description/hca-health-care-administration" hreflang="en">HCA Health Care Administration</a> Wed, 08 Sep 2021 18:03:54 +0000 admin 326 at /node/286 <span>HCA 312 Health Care Finance</span> <span><span lang about="/user/1" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>admin</span></span> <span><time datetime="2021-09-08T11:03:54-07:00" title="Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 11:03">Wed, 09/08/2021 - 11:03</time> </span> <div class="wizzywig"><p>This course provides an introduction to health care finance. Students will develop skills for the role of a health care manager to plan, control, direct and coordinate financial activities related to the organization’s day-to-day operation. Learning will consist of understanding financial reports, revenue sources, contractual allowances, budgeting, cost classifications, annualizing staffing, inventory and depreciation methods. Students will calculate financial ratios and analyze the results to determine the efficiency of the organization’s financial operations. Additionally, the functions of the health care financial manager will be addressed through understanding financial practices, governmental policies and regulations, cash management strategies and consistent methodologies involved in the financial decision-making process in the health care setting. Prerequisites:&nbsp;HCA 205 and ACC 281.&nbsp;</p> </div> 3 <a href="/catalog/course-description/hca-health-care-administration" hreflang="en">HCA Health Care Administration</a> Wed, 08 Sep 2021 18:03:54 +0000 admin 286 at /node/256 <span>HCA 205&nbsp;Introduction to Health Care</span> <span><span lang about="/user/1" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>admin</span></span> <span><time datetime="2021-09-08T11:03:54-07:00" title="Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 11:03">Wed, 09/08/2021 - 11:03</time> </span> <div class="wizzywig"><p>This is an introductory course that explores the historical evolution of health care in the United States, its financing sources, technology, delivery of care and the stakeholders who comprise the health care system. The structure of the health care system, including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, will be discussed along with the various components that influence health care such as legal, ethical, regulatory, and fiscal forces. Students will also explore other health care systems and examine the potential future of health care in the United States.&nbsp;</p> </div> 3 <a href="/catalog/course-description/hca-health-care-administration" hreflang="en">HCA Health Care Administration</a> Wed, 08 Sep 2021 18:03:54 +0000 admin 256 at