MBA in HSM
Course Descriptions
Health Services Management Core Courses
HSM 500 - Health Care Systems (3)
This course addresses the multiple components of the health care
delivery system, the rationale for its’ patterns and practices and the
basic statistics necessary to assess and measure its utilization.
HSM 501 - Health Policy (3)
This course is designed to address several major health policy
issues confronting public and private policy makers. The course is
multidisciplinary in approach. Analyses incorporate economic,
managerial, financial, ethical, demographic, statistical, and political
perspectives.
HSM 505 - Economics of Health Care (3)
This course is designed to provide an overview of the major
components of the health care system. Topic areas covered include:
demand for health care and consumer behavior, physician behavior, the
demand for health insurance, institutional behavior, managed care
organizations and the market for long-term care services.
HSM 509 – Legal Issues in Health Care (3)
The course is designed to explore legal and ethical issues that
affect the operation of health care facilities. Covered topics include
medical malpractice, licensure, staff privileges, federal/state
regulatory mechanisms, health organization liability, risk management,
decisions at the end of life and obligations to patients and the
community.
HSM 525 - Health Care Marketing and Strategic Planning
(3)
Decision making, relative to facility planning and financial
integrity, has become extremely complex in the health care field. This
course addresses many planning and marketing variables, as well as how
to coordinate these activities. Prerequisite: HSM 500.
HSM 535 - Financial Management of Health Care Organizations
(3)
Students acquire a working knowledge of cash flow projections,
budgeting, cost accounting and control evaluation techniques for
not-for-profit organizations. Prerequisite: ACC 301 or its equivalent.
HSM 685 - Health Services Administration Environments
and Strategies (3)
This course is the capstone course in the MBA in Health Services
Management Program. It integrates skills from throughout the Master’s
program using strategic management as an integrating framework.
Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor.
Business Management Core Courses
ACC 520 - Accounting for Managers (3)
The objective of this course is to familiarize students with the basic
principles of short-term financial planning. Topics coverage shall
include (1) trends flow statement development and analysis, on both cash
and working capital bases, (2) common size analysis, (3) index
analysis, (4) cash budgeting, (5) working capital management, (6)
proforma statement development and analysis, and (7) general forecasting
methodologies (including subjective, historical, and causal
techniques).
FIN 525 - Financial Management Problems (3)
Provides the student with an in-depth experience with the
subject of Corporation Finance for future development as practicing
executives. Students solve cases and problems faced by financial
managers in the real world, that focus on major financial decisions and
such current issues as corporate governance, securities issuance,
globalizations, privatization, financial analysis and planning, capital
budgeting, capital structure, cost of capital, valuation, dividend
policy, short/long-term financing, financial markets, firm performance,
and corporate restructuring.
HRM 518 - Human Resource Management (3)
This course addresses the development of state-of-the-art
systems which support basic business objectives, as well as foster good
working relations between employees and managers.
MGT 607 - Organizational and Management Theory
(3)
Analyze major schools of management thought: traditional,
behavioral, and contingency. Explore managerial roles, power styles, and
conflict with respect to contemporary organizational systems through
lecture, discussion, case analysis, and experiential exercises.
MIS 515 - Management Information Systems (3)
Strategic uses of information that affect customers, markets,
and products are becoming common today. Information is used to manage
organizations, carry out strategy, control operations, and assist in
decision-making. As a result, information is a resource with value equal
to that of traditional assets such as inventory, capital, and human
skills. In this course students will learn to manage and use information
systems and technology. The MIS course provides concepts, methods, and
techniques to identify an organization’s information needs and to employ
systems to meet these needs. The course introduces business students to
topics such as information systems, database management, information
technology, expert systems, and decision support systems.
MKT 505 - Marketing Management (3)
Emphasizes a managerial approach in marketing decision making in
the modern technology environment. Topics in this course include the
marketing mix, marketing problem solving through case analysis,
marketing strategy concepts and tools, and development of a strategic
marketing plan. Students learn these topics and many other relative
subjects through teamwork and course projects.
MGS 511 - Quantitative Business Analysis (3)
This survey course addresses the study of the scientific method
as applied to management decisions. The forepart of this course
addresses the development of basic statistics up to hypothesis testing.
Topic coverage also includes (bivariate regression analysis, (2)
multiple regression analysis, (3) PERT and CPM, (4) linear programming
(graphic methods only), (5) decision making under uncertainty (including
maximax, minimax, and maxi-min techniques) and (6) the basic elements
of forecasting (including the classical time series model).
Graduate Elective Courses
HIM 501 - Health Care Informatics (3)
The theoretical basis of health care informatics and health information
systems is presented and the use of technology to deliver health care is
explored. Study of the impact of informatics on the socio-cultural
environment of health care and the infrastructure to support health care
informatics is a primary focus.
HSM 522 - Nursing Home Administration (3)
Aging of the United States population has expanded the need for
long-term care services. This course will examine the nursing home as
an integral part of the long-term continuum. This course is intended to
provide the foundation necessary for students preparing for an
internship and subsequent careers as nursing home administrator.
HSM 531 - Financial Management for Ambulatory Care
Facilities (3)
A course designed to assist the health care executive
understand various financial issues in dealing with managed care
organizations. Specifically, the course will focus on financial
reimbursement issues which executives must understand to provide
strategic financial and operational direction to their organizations,
risk shifting via capitation methodologies, risk contracting issues, and
various cost accounting methodologies to adequately prepare for
negotiating managed care contracts.
HSM 680 - Research Methods for Health Services
Administration (3)
Covers conceptualization of health services research,
statistical modeling, sampling, techniques, research design, data
collection, literature review, and ethical issues in health services
research. Students will complete a research design proposal which
addresses a health services research problem. Prerequisite: MGS 511 or
MBA statistics course.
HSM 692 - Internship (Variable 3-9)
Internship placements provide students with a field experience
related to their academic preparation enabling them to apply classroom
instruction to the work site. Students are placed with an organization
related to their major and specific area of interest to work along with,
and be proctored by experienced professionals. These are opportunities
that cannot be duplicated in the classroom environment and provide an
excellent transition into the field. Prerequisite: Permission of Program
Director.
MBA Electives - Students may select a graduate course in the School of Business as their second elective. This should be done in consultation with their advisor.