Program Learning Outcomes

The health care management master's program learning outcomes are aligned with the schoolwide outcomes, specifically focusing on:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the evolution and key elements of U.S. health care system, roles of major organizations and stakeholders, and key legislation. 
• Compare and contrast the major features of leadership styles, and how they apply to health care organizations to promote long-term success. 
• Evaluate and apply strategies for effectively interfacing with organizational leaders and managing the day-to-day operations of health care organizations to help them succeed. 
• Interpret key legislation, and how that legislation impacts health care organizations, their employees, and the communities they serve. 
• Compare and contrast bioethical principles and give examples as to how they apply to health care stakeholders. 
• Describe the key elements of strategic planning and demonstrate the ability to apply them in simulated cases. 
• Compare and contrast the various types of financial statements and demonstrate the ability to interpret them to depict the financial condition of a health care organization. 
• Create, analyze, and reconcile a business operational and capital budget. 
• Demonstrate an understanding of key principles for recruiting, retaining, training, and optimizing the performance of employees within health care organizations. 
• Interpret key legislation related to employee relations, hiring, termination, and terms of employment. 
• Analyze and apply key strategies and tools in quality assurance and give examples as to how they can be applied to optimize health care organizational outcomes. 
• Compare and contrast research study designs; analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each design and how they can be applied to answer research questions and investigate hypotheses. 
• Demonstrate proper techniques for gathering, formatting, storing, and analyzing data to help optimize organizational performance or investigate research questions and hypotheses. 

Competency in these areas will be demonstrated by students in the form of selected outcomes, which include their academic performance in courses within the curriculum, which are related to each of these subjects, as well as the integration, synthesis, and application of these subjects within their capstone project known as Graduate Project. Other metrics used to evaluate the attainment of these goals and objectives will be student, course, and graduate survey results.