Online Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) Courses

This course provides an overview of areas in healthcare marketing and explores how marketing principles and communication strategies are applied to the specific challenges of the healthcare industry. This course equips students with the knowledge and skills to develop and implement effective marketing plans for hospitals, physician practices, pharmaceutical companies, and other healthcare organizations.

This course provides an overview of laws most affecting healthcare practices. The legal basis for government involvement in healthcare is examined with an analysis of the laws controlling the provision of the healthcare industry and professional regulations. This course provides an in-depth overview of healthcare law, allowing students to acquire skills to confirm their actions to legal requirements and ethically analyze daily healthcare situations.

This course covers finance concepts and models of for-profit and not-for-profit healthcare entities. Students will analyze financial data including profit or loss, ratios, overhead, and allocations. Other topics include third-party payers, applications of time value of money, and planning for capital needs.
Prerequisites: HADM 5880 Data Analytics for Healthcare Administration; HADM 6210 Essentials of Healthcare Accounting

This course introduces graduate students to human resource management in healthcare organizations, focusing on essential managerial skills. Students will learn about key topics such as strategic HR management, workforce planning, the legal environment, diversity, job analysis and design, recruitment, selection and retention, organizational development, compensation and benefits, health and safety preparedness, and employee/labor relations.

A course in the Accelerated MBA Foundations Series in which students are introduced to foundational concepts of marketing management processes. Provides students with intensive exposure to the basic philosophy, concepts, and knowledge common to effective marketing management.

This course explores healthcare delivery in the United States. Examines healthcare systems in other countries along with covering topics including American beliefs and values related to healthcare delivery, evolution of health services in the United States, health service professions, influence of medical technology, and the financing of health services.
Prerequisite; HADM 5880 Data Analytics for Healthcare Administration

Development of leadership potential by strengthening abilities in visioning, interpersonal team skills, negotiation, decision analysis and conflict management. Application of organizational theory and concepts to health services organizations.
Prerequisite; 18 hours completed in MHA program

This course explores emerging trends and complex issues in healthcare management. Students will engage in cutting-edge topics, including innovative healthcare technologies, policy changes, and leadership strategies. It introduces graduate students to essential concepts in healthcare administration such as change management, interpersonal skills, career development, internship/fellowship application, AI, digital health, and innovation.

A capstone project is a culminating academic project which students undertake in the final year of an academic program. The project is designed to demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and competencies that students have acquired throughout the degree program. The project requires a student to identify a real-world problem within their field of study and develop a plan to solve the problem. Capstone projects are intended to provide students with an opportunity to apply the theoretical knowledge they have gained in the coursework to practical, real-world situations. If the student is not employed in a healthcare-related workplace, you will be provided with a mentor, either at a healthcare facility or through one of the MHA faculty, to apply your learning to a real-life situation.

In place of the capstone, students may request the opportunity to complete an internship in a healthcare setting. Under supervision, students will work on a problem related to management, development or administration in healthcare. Graded on a satisfactory / unsatisfactory basis only. Permission is required.

Prerequisite: 24 hours completed in MHA program