HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT

Health Care Management (M.S.)
Health Care Management Track Under the M.B.A.

Health Care Management (M.S.)

The program’s mission is to prepare men and women to become knowledgeable and ethical leaders in the field of health care management. The program trains students for a career in health care by integrating core business skills with specialized training in the characteristics that are unique to the health care environment. The program promotes service contributions by faculty and students for the community to enable a greater understanding of the health care industry and to positively impact the delivery of health care services. The program is dedicated to conducting and disseminating research to advance the field, and applying the new knowledge to the program curriculum and in practice. To accomplish its mission, the program’s goals are:

to educate students so they are better able to contribute to problem solving and to demonstrate critical thinking, through financial and economic management, decision support services, and analyses;
to enable students to communicate effectively through outstanding oral and written communication skills;
to help students improve the delivery of patient care by understanding the history and development of health care in the U.S., reimbursement, policies, laws, and other components of the health care system;
to identify and develop future health care leaders, and enable them to further develop careers in health care management by offering experiential education, community service opportunities, internships, and teamwork and leadership training;
to recruit and retain a faculty that is academically prepared to effectively respond to industry demands of health care management and health care institutions;
to be a valuable resource to the academic and health care communities of northern Virginia, the District of Columbia, and the Maryland suburbs; and
to contribute to and expand industry knowledge through scholarly activities, such as research and publication.

The M.S. in Health Care Management program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME).

Admission Requirements: The School of Business Administration strongly recommends that candidates have at least two years of work experience before applying.

Degree Requirements

36 credits

HCM 510 Health Care Management
HCM 520 Health Care Reimbursement Systems or HCM 525 Health Care Management — Long-Term Care
HCM 535 Health Care Policy and Ethics
HCM 550 Health Care Finance
HCM 555 Health Care Strategic Planning and Marketing
HCM 565 Health Care Cases and Project
LA 540 Health Care Law
ECO 590 Health Care Economics
HRM 530 Foundations of Human Resource Management
IT 545 Health Care Informatics
NU 590 Health Care Data Analysis
NU 591 Health Care Research

Health Care Management Track Under the M.B.A.

See Business Administration (M.B.A.).