This graduate certificate provides health care professionals, as well as managers seeking to transition into the health care industry, with critical tools to identify, anticipate, analyze and solve the complex problems currently facing managers in health care organizations.

Program Delivery and Tuition Rate

This certificate program is delivered through online courses and is billed at the MBA rate.

Students may begin this 12-credit certificate in the fall, spring or summer terms. The required courses and suggested sequence are as follows:

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
MGMT 6040	High Performance Management	3
HCLM 6075	Managing Healthcare Systems	3
HCLM 6080	Health Policy & Management	3
HCLM 7005	Strategic Corporate Communication & Inter-professional Collaboration	3
Total Credits		12

Upon successful completion of this program, students should be able to:

• Formulate healthcare system goals and the components
• Understand the distribution of healthcare resources and their relationship to delivery of care
• Analyze and understand various leadership characteristics and strategies
• Apply strategies and techniques of organizational goal development, deployment and management of resources, and leadership of health care teams to professional experiences
• Analyze the concepts of professional accountability, patients' rights, and code of conduct and relate these concepts to ethical challenges faced by students in their professional settings
• Identify key trends external to the healthcare field that may influence healthcare management
• Consider the roles and relationships among various organizational functions
• Apply business skills through the translation of strategic visions into operational plans for healthcare organizations
• Display critical thinking in any capacity that requires decision making
• Analyze barriers to and strategies for effective communication in leadership roles in the healthcare industry