Pursue a minor in Healthcare Management and be prepared to lead.
With a minor in Healthcare Management from University of Northwestern you will:
- Gain business management and healthcare management knowledge and experience
- Acquire hard skills specific to business and unique to the health industry
- Learn from faith-based professors who are experts in their fields and have substantial experience in the healthcare industry
- Be prepared for meaningful positions of leadership in senior care and nursing facilities, group homes, rehabilitation centers, supportive care organizations, medical technology and equipment companies, and other healthcare organizations
With Northwestern’s Healthcare Management minor, Business Administration majors will gain business and health-related hard skills highly sought after by leading healthcare organizations. The knowledge and tools gained by students who earn a Healthcare Management concentration provide a competitive advantage in the healthcare industry and allow graduates to quickly integrate into a field typically known for a long learning curve.
Adding Healthcare Management minor will equip you for positions of leadership in a growing, highly compensated job market in need of godly leadership.
Our aim is to prepare every graduate entering the healthcare field to serve individuals and families in need of care through wise, compassionate, God-honoring management and leadership.
Assistant Professor of Business
What will I learn?
Learn to lead in the Healthcare industry.
HCM 4089
Finance Systems in Healthcare
This course will explore the unique and complex systems of healthcare reimbursement. Students will gain an understanding of how insurance reimbursement systems intersect with delivery and how providers use analytics to determine cost, cost sharing, and pricing. Students will also learn how hospital systems operate financially and how those systems comply with corporate governance and operational requirements. Students will use information interviews to build context for class content.
HCM 4085
Healthcare Leadership
Students will learn strategies for building high-quality, high context teams centered on quality healthcare delivery. An assessment of how existing organizations integrate vision and values in to their care menu and delivery modalities will be required. This course is designed to help students formulate and articulate their own healthcare leadership principles, in both the stewardship of resources and the management of staff. Information interviews will create a platform for experiential and market-place relevant learning in this course.
HCM 4087
Healthcare Law and Ethics
This course is designed to give students an understanding of the common legal and ethical issues in healthcare delivery. Students will evaluate cases to better their understanding of informed consent, as it relates to existing conditions, risks, and cost. Students will learn and assess various risk mitigation techniques for human resource, technology, and malpractice liabilities. The positive and negative aspects of corporate governance, community, state, and federal accountability systems in healthcare will be explored.
MGT 2271
Management
This introductory course surveys the essential theories of business management and their application to maximize workforce performance. Topics investigated include general management responsibilities such as organizational planning, utilizing metrics, and motivating work teams.
HCM 4080
Strategic Management in Healthcare
This course builds foundational understanding of the use of management systems in healthcare deliveries. Students will determine what management systems best align with an organization’s mission. Application studies on both Lean and TQM management styles will be completed. This course also requires students to explore howmanagers build teams in highly regulated environments and ensure the processes for completing work are practical, compliant, and efficient.
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