Instructor(s): Laura Wagner

This foundation course introduces research design, methods and skills essential to translate evidence into interprofessional practice, leadership and policy. Students will critique the scientific and practical merit of research studies including elements of design, sample selection, bias, data collection procedures, metrics, and interpretation of findings. The course provides a foundation for using evidence to develop, implement and evaluate the capstone project during the students two-quarter

Instructor(s): Melek Nasr Totah

This foundation course presents an overview of the healthcare financial landscape, players, mechanics, and characteristics of reform. The course introduces core concepts of financial management including balance sheets, income statements, cash flow streams and the managerial accounting building blocks of budgeting and planning. Students will participate in interactive and targeted assignments and case studies to translate financial concepts into tangible tools to assess, manage, and improve heal

Instructor(s): Jarmin Yeh

This course introduces students to leadership theory and practice by focusing on the meaning of leadership in relationship to healthcare and societal trends. Topics include recognizing traits, developing skills, creating a vision, listening to out-group members, overcoming obstacles, addressing values and ethics, and leading and motivating through change. Students will critically reflect upon and improve their leadership performance through interactive exercises and self-reflective activities.

Instructor(s): Sharon Woodworth

This course educates healthcare leaders about the built environments impacts on access, affordability, quality, and safety of healthcare delivery. This on-line class covers the full continuum of skills needed to impact environmental change from seeing, to determining, to influencing, to innovating. The curriculum progresses from basic spatial concepts to complex ideas, with the end-goal being the ability to answer the questions: How can I make this a better place? What change needs to happen?

Instructor(s): Beth Mertz

This course examines key tenets of healthcare policy including regulation and licensure, education and deployment of the health workforce, public health systems, the legislative process and health legislation such as the Affordable Care Act, and basics about state and federal health programs including Medicare and Medicaid. Students will explore the environment outside an organizations vertical structure and examine supports and barriers to initiating structural change.

Instructor(s): Ryan Edwards

This course builds on MHA200B to provide a deeper understanding of healthcare economics, policy, and decision-making. Explores production of health, incentives faced by healthcare organizations, health insurance pricing, health insurance and industry structure in the US, and healthcare costs. Links are made between course content and role of leaders to increase the value of services, as well as how the organization and financing of systems impact management, strategy, and innovation.

Instructor(s): Bob Wenz

Course prepares students to intentionally and effectively work together to build safer and better, person-centered healthcare systems. Topics include frameworks, core principles and values of team-based care, and managing organizational influences such as workforce, risk, reliability and patient engagement to assure safe care. Students will develop and evaluate strategies for managing priorities at the junction of population health, economic and political interests, and forces for social change.

Instructor(s): Mia Basic

MHA206 examines management issues (planning, organizing, directing, staffing, leading, controlling) through the Human Resource Management lens. Strategic management of job analysis, recruitment, retention, performance review and succession planning are investigated. Emphasis is placed on equity and inclusion in the workplace, compensation, labor relation concepts, regulations and laws. Case studies, small group work, short papers and discussion boards are utilized in the learning environment.

Instructor(s): Lauren Williams

This first on-campus course introduces core concepts and principles of leadership, teamwork, change management, creativity and innovation. Using standardized assessment inventories, students participate in activities to strengthen self-knowledge and skill acquisition for leadership development and professional advancement. Group work and structured sessions initiate their evidence-based project. Preparation for the 2-day session includes online pre-work throughout the quarter.

Instructor(s): Kathryn Wise

In this culminating course, students will demonstrate core program competencies through the integration and application of leadership, social, economic and theoretical underpinnings of interprofessional and healthcare administration. Having advanced to candidacy for conferral of the Master of Science degree, students will present their evidence-based capstone project in four formats: scholarly papers, a podium and a poster presentation, and an advocacy discussion.

Instructor(s): Staff

This course will explore health care and public policy and its impact on health administration. Students will explore the importance of policy analysis and the impacts of policy on decision-making in their role as health administrators.

Instructor(s): Kathryn Wise

This 5-week course will explore key concepts of strategic healthcare leadership in the larger healthcare system. The purpose of the course is to provide the student with advanced systems knowledge and skills to achieve significant strategic change in healthcare organizations. Leadership and innovation skills are applied to projects. This course will apply key concepts of strategic leadership to include key ideas, constituent engagement, and planning activities for implementation.

Instructor(s): Mike Taigman, Marianne Hultgren

The course is the first in a series of two devoted to the successful completion of the student's evidence-based, process improvement project. Each student will thoroughly critique, develop and implement his/her capstone proposal that will be evaluated in the following quarter. The practicum will include individual and group sessions with faculty coaches, a mentored practice of leadership skills, and application of learned material from the foundation courses.

Instructor(s): Mike Taigman

The goals of this second practicum are twofold: 1. continue building a professional identity as a healthcare leader in the work setting under supervision of a mentor and in sessions with faculty coaches; 2. implement and evaluate an interprofessional evidence-based project. Course includes an online component, mentored practice of leadership skills, and application of learned materials from foundation courses. Faculty coaches support students in leadership and project development goals.