Health Care Administration Bachelor's Degree Program

• HCA 101 Health Care Systems and Administration

  3 credits

• HCA 201 Health Care Quality Concepts and Principles

  3 credits

• ACC 101 Financial Accounting

  3 credits

• HCA 211 Health Care Finance/Business Finance

  3 credits

• HCA 311 Economics of Health and Health Care

  3 credits

• HCA 301 Contemporary Ethical Issues in Health and Health Care

  3 credits

• HCA 401 Regulatory and Accrediting Requirements

  3 credits

• HRM 310 Human Resource Management

  3 credits

• One of the following:
  HCA 450 Leadership in Health Care Administration
  or
  MGT 450 Leadership Practices
  or
  MGT 451 Team Leadership

  3 credits

• Electives in Business, (e.g. MGT 315, MGT 365)
  Management
  MIS
  Informatics
  Health Care (e.g. HCA 325, HCA 330, HCA 350, HCA 411)
  or in an approved related field

  6 credits

• HCA 499 Capstone (Culminating course in concentration)

  3 credits

• MAT 105 Co-requisite: Statistics

  3 credits

• HCA 105 Co-requisite: Medical Terminology

  3 credits

• Total

  42 credits

Notes: Only grades of C or higher may be included in the major.

Students who graduate with a major in Health Care Administration will be able to:

1. Describe the different types of healthcare delivery systems and services by comparing past, present, and anticipated changes.
2. Discuss human resource management, behaviors, diversity, and policies and procedures.
3. Review legal and ethical responsibilities in the healthcare organization as they relate to patient/client rights.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of how healthcare quality is delivered, measured, and monitored using research methods to assess customer service and client satisfaction.
5. Describe economic factors and payment sources that influence healthcare decisions of the population served.
6. Explain financial risk and risk to the organization through evaluation and interpretation of appropriate data and performance reports.
7. Identify regulatory and voluntary accrediting standards, process improvement concepts and principles and application to healthcare.
8. Recognize the value of clinical informatics in making informed care decisions.
9. Demonstrate communication, teamwork, leadership skills and competencies.
10. Discuss global factors affecting the healthcare industry.
11. Identify and apply strategic management principles and concepts.