Courses - Health Care Administration:

HCAD 701: Healthcare Organizational Behavior 3 cr.
Prerequisite: MADM 301 and consent of the Department. Explores aspects of organizational behavior as they relate to healthcare entities, with significant attention being placed on the areas of organization design, culture, leadership, communication, power, and motivation. Three hours of lecture.

HCAD 710: Healthcare Human Resource Management 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Consent of the Department. Explores employment-related issues and events in healthcare organizations, with significant attention being placed on the areas of staffing, compensation, employee/labor relations, safety and health, and employee development. Three hours of lecture.

HCAD 716: Healthcare Statistics 3 cr.
Prerequisite: PSYC 216 and consent of the department. Explores common descriptive statistics used in the healthcare industry including mean, median, and standard deviation, as well as techniques for testing hypotheses (analysis of variance, t-tests, regression, nonparametric methods) and issues in sampling and design of experiments. Three hours of lecture.

HCAD 720: Community Health 3 cr.
Explores the gamut of issues, events, and circumstances related to community health in the United States of America, with significant attention being placed on the areas of governmental and nongovernmental delivery systems, health planning and promotion, the health of populations, environmental health, and community health ethics.

HCAD 735: Healthcare Quality Assurance and Leadership 3 cr.
Explores aspects of and relationships between quality assurances and leadership as they relate to healthcare organizations, with significant attention being placed on the areas of leadership ethics and integrity, vision and mission statement development, culture creation, and the delivery of ever-increasing levels of quality in all aspects of health administration.

HCAD 740: Healthcare Marketing 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Consent of the Department. Explores the gamut of issues, events, and circumstances related to marketing in the healthcare industry, with significant attention being placed on the areas of environmental and competitive assessment, portfolio analysis, consumer behavior, new product development, the formulation of the marketing mix, and marketing strategy and planning. Three hours of lecture.

HCAD 750: Healthcare Informatics 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Consent of the Department. Focuses on the selection, installation, and use of information systems in the healthcare industry, with significant emphasis being placed on the use of computer technologies to improve efficiency and effectiveness across administrative and clinical operations within healthcare entities. Three hours of lecture.

HCAD 760: Healthcare Finance 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ACCT 205, ACCT 206, and consent of the Department. Explores the financial management practices of healthcare organizations, including market structure and reimbursement, fund accounting, financial ratio analysis, capital and money markets, working capital management, capital budgeting, and analysis of mergers and acquisitions. Three hours of lecture.

HCAD 770: Healthcare Economics 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ECON 202 and consent of the Department. Explores the tools and techniques of healthcare economics, with significant attention being placed on the areas of healthcare consumption, production of healthcare goods and services, and resource allocation. Three hours of lecture.

HCAD 780: Healthcare Policy 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Consent of the Department. Explores the gamut of issues, events, and circumstances related to healthcare policy in the United States of America, with significant attention being placed on the areas of governmental systems, the policy process, policy research, and interest groups. Three hours of lecture.

HCAD 790: Healthcare Strategic Management 9 cr.
Prerequisite: Consent of the Department. The capstone course in the MHA program. Investigates strategic management from the perspective of the healthcare executive, exploring such topics as mission formulation, value chain analysis, and environmental analysis, along with the strategic management process of strategy planning, formulation, implementation, evaluation, and control. Three hours of lecture.

HCAD 799: MHA Thesis 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Consent of the department. The final step in attaining the MHA degree. Involves (1) the completion of a field experience involving the examination of a given institutional problem or event within a healthcare entity, (2) the preparation and submission of a written thesis addressing the given problem or event, and (3) the formal presentation of thesis results to the faculty, student body, and special topics.



Last Revised February 27, 2006