ACADEMICS - MBA with Health Care Management Concentration
Augsburg will launch its first MBA with a concentration in Health Care Management (MBA-HCM) at both its Minneapolis and Rochester Campuses in 2008. Building on Augsburg’s rich tradition in health care education, this program is designed to provide health care professionals with the leadership and management skills necessary for successful careers. Degree features include the following:
- One class at a time, one night a week
- Courses emphasizing the principles of innovation, financial management, communication, organizational development, strategy, and leadership
- Faculty from business and health care professions
- Versatile degree combining the core MBA with Health Care Management
- Cohort format
The MBA-HCM program emphasizes the identification, analysis, and solution of complex management problems with a foundation of health care concepts and decision models that will support the variety of management roles that can be seen in today's health care environment.
Augsburg MBA-HCM curriculum includes the following courses from the MBA core program (click the links below to view course descriptions on the MBA core curriculum page):
- Leadership: Vision & Transformation
- Accounting for Business Managers
- Applied Managerial Economics
- Quantitative Decision-Making for Managers
- Managerial Finance
- Communication Issues in Management
- Organizational Development
- Strategic Technology
- Marketing
- Strategic Management
The MBA-HCM curriculum also includes six Health Care Management Concentration courses whose descriptions are provided below:
Integrated Health Delivery Systems (Required)
This course is focused on the health-related industries that comprise the Health Care system in the United States. Critical success factors for the medical care, hospital care, long-term care, mental health care, medical equipment, pharmaceutical, health insurance and managed care industries are examined. The course also considers the influences of demographics, consumer expectations, and government policies on health care system performance.
Legal & Ethical Considerations in Health Care (Required)
This course covers the laws affecting administration of hospitals and other health care organizations; administrative law, corporate and business law, labor law, civil liability and tax-related issues. The course the ethical issues underlying financing, organization, and delivery of health care services. Addresses the numerous ethical issues raised by advances in technology, changing societal values, decreased resources and increasing professional liability.
Health Care Financing (Required)
This course focuses on a variety of public and private third-party mechanisms for financing health care services. A review shall be made of the various trends and constraints associated with each mechanism. Particular attention shall be paid to the role of private health insurance and government reimbursement mechanisms for health services. Prerequisites: MBA 530 - Managerial Finance.
Human Resource Issues in Health Care (Required/Elective depending on campus)
This course provides complete coverage of relevant human resource issues in health care management, as well as offering a solid foundation in both HR and health care administrative practices. It offers a comprehensive, focused approach to the demands of the current human resources role. This practical, hands-on course introduces human resources to those who are preparing to work in any area of health care or health service. Written for practitioners and students in all disciplines related to health, this course covers important topics such as recruitment, training, termination, legal issues, labor unions, design and analysis, safety, employee relations, health care compensation practices, and the challenges facing health care management today.
Health Care Operations Management (Elective)
This course analyzes the operations of health care organizations to improve quality and productivity. Quality improvement models, including Six Sigma, are reviewed for usefulness and effectiveness within health care delivery or manufacturing environments related to health care. Management Information Systems (MIS) are evaluated as aids to the quality process. A course project is a key element in applying strategic concepts and processes.
Global Health Care Issues (Required/Elective depending on campus)
Governments bear significant responsibilities for assuring the health of their people. As our understanding of the social determinants of health has improved, exercising this responsibility calls for national policies that include planning for the personal health care system, addressing broader issues of population health services and links to policies that affect education, economic development, the environment, among other areas. All nations, especially developing countries and those in transition, face challenges to their national health strategies from the effects of globalization and global decision making on issues that affect health.
Information Technology in Health Care (Elective)
Managing information as a strategic resource within health care organizations; designing information systems to capture, combine, and transform information to measure processes/outcomes of care, support collaborative clinical decision making, support management decisions, empower patients and improve health care operations. Explores how effective information and knowledge management can leverage the intellectual capital in health care organizations and help them achieve technical superiority. It covers the key areas of knowledge management, from identifying knowledge in an organization to promoting and facilitating knowledge sharing and innovation. Using numerous case studies, the course surveys and integrates the technology, the strategies, and the practice of knowledge management.
Contact Us
Call 507-289-6142, 612-330-1390, or e-mail mbainfo@augsburg.edu for more information about the MBA-HCM program.
