Healthcare Administration Degree Online

In this specialized curriculum, students explore a comprehensive core of knowledge about the U.S. healthcare system, including its structure, operations, regulations and management, with a focus on administrative roles in healthcare services. The Bachelor's in Healthcare Administration online degree provides students with an opportunity to study healthcare directly across many disciplines in order to help prepare students for a career in healthcare management.

Successful completion of the Bachelor's in Healthcare Administration online degree can provide students with a strong foundation of healthcare administration and practical, career focused skills.

Our Bachelor's in Healthcare Administration online degree can help you learn you how to:

• Interpret and explain concepts effectively in various healthcare organizations and situations
• Demonstrate and understanding of the aging services industry including nursing care, home healthcare services, retirement communities, delivered services, rehabilitation and therapy facilities, memory care services and assisted living
• Apply principles of economics and finance to make effective decisions in various healthcare settings for various contemporary healthcare practices and functions
• Analyze the relationships between costs, quality, and access to healthcare in the U.S.
• Formulate current operation’s management practices and principles used in the current healthcare environment
• Evaluate the types of information and information systems capabilities/technology needed by healthcare organizations
• Evaluate potential ethical and legal conflicts in healthcare related to legislative and regulatory issues affecting healthcare
• This business program is programmatically accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP)

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Total tuition for this degree program may vary depending on your educational needs, existing experience, and other factors.

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For a Healthcare Administration Degree Online, your classes may include:

Healthcare Organization

This course introduces organizational theory and structure. It addresses performance and issues related to change management and interoperability of organizations as well as demonstrating upstream and downstream actions and their implications to the success of the organizational goals and objectives. Theories related to proper organizational design and change are discussed throughout.

Marketing a Healthcare Perspective

This course introduces various marketing strategies and how they apply to the healthcare industry. Media types, internal and external marketing strategies, feedback streams and assessment measures as well as legal and ethical practices in marketing as they relate to healthcare are discussed.

Ethical and Legal Issues in Healthcare

This course is designed to provide a working knowledge of law and ethics in a wide variety of healthcare topics, enabling students to deal with common legal and practical problems facing patients, their families, practitioners, caregivers, and society within the healthcare industry. Students will work to develop a basic knowledge of ethics and the law as it applies to their areas of responsibility.

Advanced Healthcare Management

This course investigates contemporary challenges in healthcare management and includes examination and application of data analytics and tools used in monitoring, assessing, and evaluating performance of healthcare organizations, approaches to problem identification and assessment, identification of alternative solutions and development of recommendations to address operational challenges and achieve performance improvement.

Leadership in Healthcare Organizations

This course covers organizational leadership strategies and tactics as they apply to the healthcare organizations. Leadership methods are explained and explored with a focus on communications, delegation, perceptions of power, collaboration, oversight, mentoring, coaching, and tracking of performance, as well as session planning. Matrix management, ad-hoc teams and cross boundary controls are also considered.

Healthcare Information Systems

This course is designed to assist healthcare students in understanding principles of analysis, design, evaluation, selection, acquisition, and utilization of information systems in the healthcare organization. Sufficient technical detail on computer hardware, software, networks, and data management is included to enable the student to become conversant with modern information technology and its use in healthcare organizations.

Healthcare Finance

This course covers an analysis and evaluation of the economic, financial and payment environment of the healthcare consumer, provider, institution and the different organizations found in the healthcare industry. These areas will be integrated to provide a complete understanding of the managed care organization's economic, financial and payment objectives to provide health services to all healthcare clients.

Healthcare Resource Allocation and Policy Making

This course focuses on the impact healthcare policy has on resource allocation. Students will study the public policy formulation and modification processes in addition to an awareness of critical issues in American health policy impacting healthcare managers to balance costs, quality, and access to care in various settings.

Program Capstone

The emphasis in this course is on applying and synthesizing concepts and techniques from all previous health specialization courses. This course provides an opportunity for the student to use the assimilated materials in a cohesive approach through challenges that reflect situations they may address in actual practice.

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What is a Bachelor of Healthcare Management with a Specialization in Health Services Administration degree?

AIU’s healthcare management degree with a specialization in health services administration is designed to provide knowledge, skills, and abilities relevant for pursuing a potential career path in the healthcare management field. This degree program emphasizes a comprehensive core of knowledge about the U.S. healthcare system, including its structure, operations, regulations, and management, with a focus on administrative roles in healthcare services.

How long does it take to earn a healthcare management degree with a specialization in health services administration?

Our bachelor’s degree programs are designed as 48-month programs. However, many factors can impact your time to completion. The time it may take you to earn your health services administration specialization can be influenced by course loads proficiency and/or transfer credits, and breaks.

What kind of courses will I take to earn a specialization in health services administration?

As you work to complete your bachelor’s of healthcare management degree with a specialization in health services administration, you will be immersed in courses such as: Healthcare Organization; Leadership in Healthcare Organizations; Healthcare Finance; and Marketing, a Healthcare Perspective.

When can I begin my specialization in health services administration classes?

Courses for the Bachelor of Healthcare of Management with a Specialization in Health Services Administration start approximately every five weeks. Your actual start date is based on several factors, including receiving academic and financial documentation.

How many credits will I need to graduate with a health services administration specialization?

The bachelor’s degree program consists of 180 credits. You may be eligible for transfer credit, which is evaluated on an individual basis. Not all credits are eligible to transfer. Please see the University Catalog for transfer credit policies.

Why should I pursue a healthcare management degree with a specialization in health services administration?

Upon earning your specialized bachelor’s degree, you should have had the opportunity to explore administrative roles in organizations such as hospitals, medical offices, insurance companies, and extended-care providers. . By studying key topics in health services administration you can: be able to facilitate the distribution of information with internal and external healthcare stakeholders through professional written and oral communication; work to have the knowledge to identify and mitigate risk in the healthcare industry for the delivery of quality patient care; and have the know-how to analyze the relationships between costs, quality, and access to healthcare in the U.S. to formulate management practices and principles used in the current healthcare environment.