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HMP 810 - Financial Management for Clinicians
Credits:
3.00
Includes basic elements of health care financial management
and cost accounting, including cost concepts and product
costing, budgeting, and variance analysis with an emphasis
on the departmental level of health care organizations.
Contains an overview of basic principles of accounting,
focusing on the balance sheet and statement of revenues and
expenses to include their analysis using the tools of ratio
analysis. Concludes with the basic concepts of capital
project analysis and health care reimbursement. Note: This
course is not part of the M.H.A. sequence. Prereq:
enrollment in nursing master's program; HMP majors
not allowed.
HMP 900 - Health Care in the United States
Credits:
3.00
Identification and examination of elements that comprise the
health care system in the United States. Analysis of
interaction between health organizations with political,
economic, and other social systems.
HMP 900M - HMP Continuing Enrollment
Credits:
HMP 901 - Health Economics
Credits:
3.00
Application of economic concepts and principles to the
study of health services; emphasis on the financing and
delivery of personal medical care systems.
HMP 903 - Health Care Planning
Credits:
3.00
Theoretical and historical foundations of health planning;
the relationship of health planning and regulation;
application of planning methods; and use of strategic
planning and its relationship to marketing. Prereq:
permission.
HMP 904 - Health Policy
Credits:
3.00
Analysis of the public policy process and development of
health policies in the United States, discussion of specific
health policy issues.
HMP 907 - Managed Health Care
Credits:
3.00
Discussion of the historical antecedents of managed health
care; exploration of current techniques directed at
controlling health care costs.
HMP 908 - Health Care Quality Assurance and Assessment
Credits:
3.00
Historical antecedents of quality measurement and assurance
programs. Describes and evaluates current approaches to
assessing and improving the quality and management of health
care including application of total quality management.
HMP 910 - Epidemiology
Credits:
3.00
Distribution and determinants od disease, illness, and
health in the community. Community health and illness
measures, status, and data. Applications to health services
management.
HMP 911 - Statistics in Health Care Management
Credits:
3.00
Application to health administration and policy of
statistical tools. Includes frequency distributions,
measures of central tendency, measures of variability,
and probability plus linear correlation, regression,
analysis of variance, and other statistics.
HMP 912 - Quantitative Methods in Health Care Management
Credits:
3.00
Applications of statistical methods, operations, research,
and quantitative management sciences within health
management and policy contexts.
HMP 920 - Organization Theory in Health Care
Credits:
3.00
Application of organization theory and behavior to health
organizations. Motivation and leadership, work group
dynamics, communications, and negotiations within the
health care organization as an open system; concentrates on
topics involving organizational design, change, and
innovation.
HMP 921 - Managing Health Services
Credits:
3.00
The role and function of the manager, governance, and the
management of operations in health care organizations.
Determinants of management strategy and action.
HMP 923 - Health Services Marketing
Credits:
3.00
Theories and practices of marketing and marketing research.
Marketing strategies and outcome examined from the
perspective of the health care organization and
professional.
HMP 924 - Human Resources Management in Health Care
Credits:
3.00
Role of human resources management in meeting goals in
health care organizations, functions of human resources
management, organization of personnel activities and staff,
relationship of managers to personnel administration staff
and activities.
HMP 926 - Health Care Management Information Systems
Credits:
3.00
Concepts and implementation of information systems to
support managerial planning, control, and decision making.
Processes for information system analysis, design, and
implementation.
HMP #928 - Long Term Care Management
Credits:
3.00
Use of case studies to describe situations and problems
faced by long-term care managers; synthesis and integration
of the subject matter and application of theory to actual
long-term care management situations.
HMP 930 - Managerial Accounting for Health Care Organizations
Credits:
3.00
Cost accounting, cost analysis, and budgeting in planning
and controlling health services. Techniques of variance
analysis, cost allocation, ratio analysis, and management
of working capital, rate setting, and reimbursement.
HMP 931 - Health Care Finance
Credits:
3.00
Captial investment decision analysis, sources, and uses of
capital to finance health organizations. Theories of finance
related to the management of health organizations.
HMP #932 - Health Care Reimbursement
Credits:
3.00
Analysis and discussion of payment techniques used by
third-party payers to pay for services rendered to insured
or program beneficiaries by health care organizations and
individual providers.
HMP 940 - Legal Strategies in Health Care
Credits:
3.00
Legal issues that affect the management of health care
organizations. Topics include corporate liability,
anti-trust, contract law, tort issues, and labor law.
HMP 950 - Ethics and Health Care
Credits:
3.00
Professional and ethical issues confronting health services
administrators. Case studies apply different models of
ethical decision making. Analysis of competing
organizational and professional interests, values, and
responsibilities.
HMP 960 - Advanced Topics in Health Management and Policy
Credits:
1.00 to 3.00
Discussion of current topics in selected areas of health
management and policy.
HMP 960A - Health Care Systems
Credits:
3.00
The focus of this course is on the pattern of health care
services in the United States and on the structure and
function of their component parts. It examines the impact
on the system of a wide range of external factors
including social, political, economical, professional, legal
and, technological factors. Prereq: permission.
HMP 960B - Principles of Epidemiology
Credits:
3.00
Exploration of factors underlying the distribution and
determinants of states of health in various human
populations. Emphasis is placed on investigative
techniques, epidemiological methodology, and diesase
prevention. Prereq: permission.
HMP 960C - Introduction to Environmental Health
Credits:
3.00
Introduction to the ecological basis of health and disease.
Application of the principles and framework of ecosystems to
issues such as toxic chemicals, fibers and dust, ionizing
and non-ionizing radiation, air and water pollution, food
chains, and infectious agents in the environment, general
principles and global processes will be linked to local
issues and the regulatory environment through case studies
and site visits. Prereq: permission.
HMP 960D - Biostatistics
Credits:
3.00
Introduction to biostatistics in public health. Includes
sampling theory and basic statistical and probability
concepts that underlie public health research and practice.
Prereq: permission.
HMP 960E - Public Health Administration
Credits:
3.00
This course focuses on public health managers,
organizational culture, management process, management
functions and roles, leadership, motivation, communication,
and human resource management.
HMP 960F - Social and Behavioral Health
Credits:
3.00
This is a graduate level course which provides a grounding
in fundamental concepts of the behavioral sciences as they
illuminate public health.
HMP 960G - Public Health Financing and Budgeting
Credits:
3.00
This course reviews the manner in which public health
services are financed in the United States, including
sources and uses of such funds.
HMP 960H - Public Health Policy
Credits:
3.00
An analysis of the public policy process, the development of
public health policy in the United States, and a discussion
of specific public health policy issues with international
comparisions.
HMP 975 - The Praxis
Credits:
1.00 to 3.00
An applied experience consisting of field study and the
development of management or policy case studies and
supporting analysis to explore the relationship between
theory and professional practice. Credit/Fail.
IA (Continuous grading).
HMP 995 - Independent Study
Credits:
1.00 to 3.00
Directed readings and other activities to explore a specific
topic related to health management and policy. May be
repeated to a maximum of 12 credits. Prereq: permission.
HMP 998 - Strategic Management of Health Care
Credits:
3.00
Examination of the operations of health service
organizations through the role of the manager. Uses case
studies and other techniques to integrate content covered in
previous courses.