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Advanced Certificate Program Information


The Advanced Certificate Program in Health Care Management is offered through the Department of Health Care Policy and Management in the School of Health Technology and Management. It is designed to meet the needs of working healthcare professionals who desire or require management training and education. The certificate program curriculum is comprised of a variety of courses, each with a management focus.

Students can apply to the certificate program while they are enrolled in the PA Post-Professional Masters Program. Students in the certificate program must complete six (6) courses from the list below. Each course is three credits. This is not a complete course listing and course offerings are subject to change. Since the courses Ethics and Health Care, and Contemporary Issues in Health Care Delivery are required courses in the PA Post-Professional Masters Program, students who have completed these courses are only required to complete four (4) additional health care management courses. These four (4) courses can be used as both elective courses for the PA Post-Professional Masters Program and Advanced Certificate Program. You can view the course offerings page to determine which courses are offered in upcoming semesters. If you plan to apply to this certificate program, you shoulld work closely with your advisor on course selection.

HAP XXX* Contemporary Issues in Health Care Delivery
HAS 545 Ethics and Health Care

HAS 530 Health Care Operations
HAS 534 Fundamentals of Health Care Management
HAS 535 Essentials of Health Care Finance
HAS 536 Health Law
HAS 538 Health Economics and Public Policy
HAS 544 Principles of Managed Care
HAS 554 Marketing in Health Services
HAS 555 Essentials in Health Care Sales and Marketing
HAS 556 Outcome Measures and Continuous Quality Improvement in Health Care
HAS 564 Health Information and Communications Systems
HAS 570 Business Aspects of Managed Care
HAS 571 Issues in Health Care Management
HAS 572 Ambulatory Care Management
HAS 574 Group Practice Management
HAS 575 Long Term Care
HAS 576 Workplace 2020
HAS 577 e-Healthcare, e-Commerce, and e-Care
HAS 578 Leadership in Health Care

* This course has been approved by the SHTM curriculum committee and is awaiting course number assignment.

Advanced Certificate in Health Care Management Program admission requirements include:

  1. Online application (separate application from the PA PPMP)
  2. BA or BS degree with GPA 2.8 or higher
  3. Application fee

Applications must be completed and submitted by February 15. To be eligible to graduate from the certificate program, students must complete at least one course in the year they are accepted into the Advanced Certificate Program.

Click here to start your application to the Advanced Certificate Program.

For further information contact the PA Program at (631) 444-2029.

 
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