The health administration certificate program is designed to prepare people with diverse backgrounds already in the health care industry or those wishing to enter the fast growing and rapidly changing health care profession.

Courses

POLS 551 Health Organization and Administration (3 credits) – The evolution of health systems and their organizational challenges of administration from human resources to management in times of scarce resources are explored. Specific attention is devoted to Financial Management, Managerial and Fun Accounting, Medicare, Medicaid, Fiscal Intermediaries and Managed Care, and Organizations in Decline.

POLS 552 Health Policy (3 credits) – This course examines historic and contemporary trends in health care delivery in the United States. Emphasis is placed on addressing health care cost-containment issues, access to health care, and recent efforts to invoke broadly based systemic reform.

POLS 593 Problems in POLS & PA: Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Administration (3 credits) – Deals with aspects of the law related to health care delivery such as compliance and liability issues. Also discusses issues of bioethics. (Also listed as Law 291)

ECON 575 Health Economics (3 credits) – The macroeconomy of health care as a driving force of health care policy in America is discussed. The microeconomy of the health care unit is presented in applied areas to develop the focus of organizational decision making.