Online Master of Health Administration
The following Master of Business Administration/ Health
Care Management (MBA/HCM) program is offered at these University
of Phoenix campus locations: Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana,
Michigan, New Mexico, Online, Phoenix, San Diego, Southern Arizona,
Southern California, and Utah.
The MBA/HCM
is designed to provide students with the business management skills
needed to manage successfully in today's health care delivery
systems. 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. The MBA/HCM specialization is based upon courses
in health care organizations, health care finance, quality and
data base management, health care infrastructure, and health care
strategic management.
The MBA/HCM
develops students for the role managers play in defining business
problems, assessing information, considering alternatives, and
choosing the best solution. Imagine the manager as the hub of
a wheel. From the hub radiate spokes, each representing a specific
discipline, such as finance, law, marketing, operations, information
systems, etc. Each of these "spokes" generates inputs
for the manager to assess and incorporate into the decision-making
process. The manager is a critical user of these inputs in making
the decision. Although generally not the original producer of
the information, the manager must be able to assess the validity
and reliability of the information in building a business case
for the decision.
To prepare
students for the decision-making role, the MBA/HCM has been designed
to introduce the theory or principles that frame a wide range
of problems or issues in each of the courses. The most current
techniques or tools are applied to these theories to allow students
to practice making decisions to solve a wide range of problems.
The MBA/HCM
consists of 46 credit hours. Thirty-one credit hours constitute
the core curriculum and 15 additional credit hours complete the
MBA/HCM. The core begins with one-credit, three-week, Managerial
Communication course designed to build strategies for success
in the MBA/HCM. It is a prerequisite to all the courses that follow.
The remainder of the core consists of 10, three-credit courses,
which all student who receive an MBA/HCM from the University of
Phoenix must complete. Those students in the MBA/HCM will complete
five additional prescribed courses to hone their skills in health
care management.
Each University
of Phoenix MBA/HCM student will create and maintain an electronic
portfolio reflecting the student's achievements throughout the
MBA/HCM program. It will include assignments from each course,
typically individual assignments, as well as other outcomes the
student may wish to add. These assignments will demonstrate the
student's ability to solve business problems at the graduate level
and serve as a partial catalog of the skills the student has mastered.
Note: Students
who enter the MBA/HCM program with an undergraduate degree that
is not in business will be required to complete web-based material
(introduced during the Managerial Communication course) covering
the fields of Accounting, Finance, Statistics, and Economics.
These students must complete the web-based material and the included
self-assessments for each course prior to taking the Accounting,
Finance, Statistics, and Economics courses in the core. The web-based
material will familiarize the students with the terms and concepts
covered in a foundational course in that subject. That foundational
knowledge will be presumed by the faculty members who teach the
core courses. The web-based material may also serve as a useful
review for students who have studied these subjects as undergraduates,
but would benefit from a refresher.
Online
Master of Health Administration Required Course of Study
Courses
requiring prerequisites are identified by a G symbol following
the course number. Prerequisites to a course are identified in
the "Course Descriptions" section of this catalog.
COM 515
Managerial Communication
1 credit
HCS 530G
Health Care Organizations
3 credits
HCS 521G
Health Care Infrastructure
3 credits
HCS 581.3G
Change, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
3 credits
HCS 582G
Health Care Finance
3 credits
ITH 510G
Impact of eHealth
3 credits
HCS 532G
Leadership and Organizational Management
3 credits
HCS 535G
Concepts of Population Health
3 credits
HCS 539G
Marketing for Health Care
3 credits
HCS 544G
Current Issues in Health Law and Ethics
3 credits
HCS 549G
Evaluation Methodology
3 credits
HCS 584G
Quality and Data Based Management
3 credits
HCS 552G
Health Care Economics
3 credits
HCS 586G
Health Care Strategic Management (Capstone Course)
3 credits
The
University reserves the right to modify the Required Course of
Study.
Online
Master of Health Administration Admission Requirement
The
requirements for admission to the MHA program are as follows:
-
The
completed and signed University of Phoenix graduate application
and an application fee.
-
An
undergraduate degree from a regionally accredited or candidate
for accreditation college or university, or a comparable degree
from a recognized institution outside of the United States.
-
Official
transcripts verifying all coursework earned toward the bachelor's
degree and any graduate coursework attempted.
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A
cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 2.5 (on a 4.0=A scale)
as shown on the Undergraduate degree posted transcript.
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Verification
of a minimum of three years of significant full-time, post
high school work experience related to the degree program.
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Current
employment. Unemployed applicants must verify access to a
suitable work environment in which to complete classroom assignments.
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For non-native speakers of English, a score of 550 on the
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). The following
may exempt a non-native speaker from having to take the TOEFL:
- Successful
completion of 30 transferable, academic semester credits at
a regionally accredited college or university in the United
States.
- Successful
completion of 30 transferable, academic semester credits at
a recognized college or University in a country in which English
is the official language.
- U.S.
high school diploma or GED.
- Equivalent
of a U.S. high school diploma from a country in which English
is the official language.
Official
documents are required.
Online
MHA Degree Requirement
The degree
completion requirements for the MHA program are as follows:
- Completion
of at least 31 credit hours of the required course of study
to meet University residency requirements.
- A minimum
program grade point average (GPA) of 3.0.
- Completion
of the University's Comprehensive Cognitive Assessment (COCA)
post-test.
- Students
must take courses within a sequence specified by course prerequisite
requirements
