Course Descriptions
HCM300 - American Healthcare System
This course provides an overview of the American healthcare system. Beginning with a historical look at healthcare in the United States, students will examine the important demographic, social, and economic issues that challenge the current healthcare delivery system, and will gain an understanding of the difficulty in meeting the needs of both providers and consumers in this nation's quest for equal access to quality care. PREREQUISITE(S): None
HCM310 - Healthcare Management
This course studies the management of healthcare organizations including hospitals, ambulatory and long-term care facilities. It focuses on their organizational structures and functions as it addresses key issues pertaining to the delivery of care, services offered and their value to the community they serve.
HCM320 - Healthcare Marketing
This course provides insight into the rapidly growing area of healthcare marketing. Building on a basic foundation of marketing principles, it focuses its attention on marketing for healthcare providers, organizations, health-related products and medical devices.
HCM330 - Healthcare Ethics
Ethical dilemmas are common in the day-to-day operation of healthcare organizations and facilities. Beginning with a discussion of the major approaches to ethical decision-making: teleological, deontological and aretaic, this course addresses the competing values and moral conflicts facing the healthcare manager, addressing a variety of issues including medical errors, whistle blowing, sexual harassment, gender discrimination, patient safety and workforce reduction.
HCM335 - Ethical and Legal Issues in Healthcare
This course examines the ethical and legal framework of the healthcare system and the issues that healthcare managers must deal with in order to address effectively the concerns of stakeholders, comply with governmental regulations, and act in concert with the ethics of the medical professions. It includes analysis of the legal challenges of malpractice, patient confidentiality, and conformity to administrative guidelines. It also applies classical theories of ethical decision making - utilitarianism, deontology, social justice - to issues faced by those managing healthcare establishments such as patient rights, use of human subjects and tissues in medical research, end of life decisions, and protection of intellectual property. PREREQUISITES: HCM 300 or permission of the Instructor
HCM340 - Healthcare Management Technologies
This course provides an overview of the primary technological tools that support healthcare administration, patient care and reduce medical errors. Students will explore the organizational, safety, and cost-benefit issues related to various healthcare technologies, including the electronic medical record and telemedicine.
HCM345 - Financial Management in Healthcare
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the financial structure, market forces, government policies and regulations, controls and techniques that apply to the healthcare sector of the economy. It examines the perspectives of multiple stakeholders - patients, physicians, hospitals, insurance companies, and government - in allocating costs and realizing profits from the delivery of healthcare. It also provides grounding in the financial tools and techniques of needed to analyze complex healthcare problems and recommend sound solutions that maximize benefits to all parties while minimizing costs. Prerequesites: HCM 300 or permission of the instructor.
HCM390 - Healthcare Internship
The purpose of the internship is to provide students with a real-world, management-related experience in the healthcare sector. Students participate in projects that have implications for organizational efficiency, cost-effective delivery of health services or improved healthcare system performance.
HCM395 - Healthcare Internship
The purpose of the internship is to provide students with a real-world, management-related experience in the healthcare sector. Students participate in projects that have implications for organizational efficiency, cost-effective delivery of health services or improved healthcare system performance.
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