Master of Science in Healthcare Administration
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Application Deadline: December 8, 2023.
18 Months Program (52 Credit Hours)
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Be at The Top of The Career Ladder in Healthcare Facility Leadership
The benefits of working in healthcare administration begin with a positive job outlook, high salaries and opportunities for advancement, but they don’t stop there. Many individuals who work in this field experience the personal satisfaction that comes from making a difference in the lives of patients. With a broad range of opportunities available, professionals can find a rewarding, stable career in the healthcare industry with plenty of room for growth.
Why Study Master of Science in Healthcare Administration?
The opportunity to make a difference
An important role in the community
A long list of career opportunities
Excellent salary
What Will You Learn in AVU's Online MS in Healthcare Administration Degree Program?
Upon completion of the MSHA program, students should be able to:
- Describe the legal, regulatory and ethical challenges characteristic of the healthcare industry.
- Apply information systems technologies to improve decision making speed and effectiveness.
- Demonstrate leadership, communication, and relationship management skills for managing a healthcare organization.
- Apply finance, accounting, marketing, information technology, quantitative, planning, and management skills for successful administration of healthcare organizations.
- Integrate multiple functional perspectives and different professional perspectives to create innovative solutions to complex problems.
- Core Courses Credits (52 Credits)
MHEA 601 - Management and Design of Healthcare Organizations
Healthcare organizations are inherently complex and function in an increasingly dynamic environment. This course provides an introduction to the knowledge and skills necessary for the effective management of healthcare organizations. This is accomplished by examining the foundations of management thought, managerial roles, motivation, leadership, and job design as they relate to healthcare organizations.
The learning outcomes of this course are:
Discuss organizational structure and design
Understand teamwork, coordination and communication, and conflict management
Understand negotiation will be examined
Learn key concepts and theory in a setting which encourages discussion and feedback
Pre-Requisites: None
MHEA 602 - Financial Accounting, Governance and Management Control in Healthcare
The purpose of this course is to provide an understanding of management control techniques and management accounting decision making techniques and processes that exist for health administrators.
The learning outcomes of this course are:
Understand an introduction to management control
Discuss and using financial statement and analysis
Examine breakeven analysis
Understand responsibility accounting
Discuss the socio-economic aspects of budgeting
Review financial decisions and relevant costs
Pre-Requisites: None
MHEA 603 - Statistics for Health Administration
This course provides graduate student in health administration with the skills to understand and carry out statistical analyses in their field. This course will discuss all aspects of statistical analyses needed in the healthcare field.
The learning outcomes of this course are:
Use Excel to create data sheets and documents
Understand data acquisition and presentation
Discuss the fundamentals of probability, distributions, inference, analysis of variance
Understand regression models
Pre-Requisites: None
MHEA 656 - Leadership Roles in Health
This course is designed to provide students with an overview of contemporary thought on leadership, the leader's role, and to explore applications of that role. Resources include a textbook, current literature stemming from health care and other disciplines, plus input from participants in the course.
The learning outcomes of this course are:
Apply general leadership theory
Explore the competencies required to be an effective leader
Assess the relationship between leadership competencies and organizational effectiveness
Critically discuss selected topics related to leadership
Analyze personal experiences in light of relevant literature
Formulate an understanding of contemporary leadership thought
Critique your personal leadership capabilities identified during the course
Pre-Requisites: None
MHEA 605 - Healthcare Law
This course provides instruction in the principles and practice of health law that are of relevance to health administrators in the public, private or public-private health sectors.
The learning outcomes of this course are:
Understand key laws and the public policy rationale
Understand how the law applies to particular healthcare delivery situations
Identify potential and actual legal problems when they arise
Pre-Requisites: None
MHEA 612 - Social Determinants of Health
This course will introduce students to the management of the healthcare system. They must have a broad understanding of the social determinants of health as paradigms based on social determinants are increasingly dominating federal, provincial, and regional government approaches to improving the health of populations.
The learning outcomes of this course are:
Understand social determinants of health: what they are and why they are important
Explore the relationship between social inequality and health
Explore early childhood development and the importance of a life-course perspective
Discuss the role of genetics as a social determinant
Discuss the role of work and community in the social determination of health status
Understand policy implications of the social determinants framework
Pre-Requisites: None
MHEA 622 - Ethics and Ethical Decision Making
The course helps to raise awareness the student’s awareness of the ethical implications of decision-making through the identification, discussion and analysis of ethical problems that may occur to health care administrators and professionals.
The learning outcomes of this course are:
Understand ethics and logical fallacies
Explain and Discuss Ethical theories
Discuss the applied ethics: ethical principles; informed consent to treatment; informed consent to research
Pre-Requisites: None
MHEA 628 - Developing Successful Project and Program Proposals
This course will discuss Project and program proposals. They are well-researched, systematic plans of action, based on pre-set inclusion criteria. Students in this course will examine various proposals and understand how to develop them.
The learning outcomes of this course are:
Examine the skills, knowledge and processes required for successful proposal development
Develop a program or project proposal in application for funding
Explore non-profit and public sector sources of funding
Appraise a proposal submitted for funding
Pre-Requisites: None
MHEA 667 - Understanding Organizations: Theory, Analysis and Application
This course will help student in understanding organizational looks at multiple aspects of organizations from their structure and design to the behavior of individuals and groups within. With a focus on what is important and useful, this course offers powerful and provocative ways of thinking about and influencing organizational life.
The learning outcomes of this course are:
Understand the theory of organizational design and structure.
Discuss the effect of human qualities on organizations.
Discuss the behavior of individuals and groups within organizations.
Understand implications of organizational theory for leaders in the 21st century.
Understand the application of organizational theory to everyday work life.
Pre-Requisites: None
MHEA 606 - Healthcare Economics
This course will introduce student to the study of health economics and its impact on health policy, funding and service delivery. Students will learn the concept, theories and methods of analysis of health economics; they will conduct a project-based health economics analysis and evaluation with reference to health policy.
The learning outcomes of this course are:
Identifying assumptions used in analysis of economic issues, and explain the theory underlying the assumptions
Understanding the theories of consumer behavior and production as they relate to health
Discussing traditional theory of demand and supply and market equilibrium, the invisible hand and consumer choice, market failure
Analyzing and evaluating in the field with some coverage of related policy issues that are important for health care manager
Pre-Requisites: None
MHEA 611 - Health Information Systems
This course will introduce students to studying and applying introductory Health Information Systems (HIS) related concepts in the context of active and changing health care environments. Students will need no prior knowledge of HIS .
The learning outcomes of this course are:
Discuss health care information systems development methodologies
Integrate technology architecture of health management information systems
Survey health care information systems
Manage domain and control architecture of health management information systems
Pre-Requisites: None
MHEA 636 - Philosophical Foundations of Health Systems
This course will prepare students to focus on the implications of the system on their own health discipline. There are choices and learning activities and students are expected to select activities that address their own learning needs.
The learning outcomes of this course are:
Discuss the influence of politics and philosophy on health care system decisions.
Describe the influence of stakeholders on policy decisions.
Examine current issues within the American health care system.
Compare various ways of organizing and funding health care systems.
Pre-Requisites: None
- A completed online application.
- A Bachelor's degree.
- Academic transcripts.
- A professional résumé.
- A proof of English language proficiency.
AVU reserves the right to accept students on a conditional basis if one or more of the above mentioned requirements are not met upon admission. However, any deficiencies must be remedied within four months from the program start date.
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- Achieve accreditation candidacy or pre-accreditation, as defined in regulations, by November 26, 2020, and full accreditation by November 27, 2023.
- Stop all enrollment in its degree programs, and
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