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Foster your health care career goals by earning your Master of Arts in Health Care Administration online from Ashford University. Deepen the value of your services with the expertise that derives from an advanced degree. This graduate degree empowers you to assume leadership positions in health care organizations. You will study such areas as finance, biostatistics, and strategic planning. The program incorporates applied health care theories across the domains of organized health care. With your Master of Arts in Health Care Administration, you demonstrate your expertise in directing health care organizations, leading health professionals, and delivering invaluable services to people in need.

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Earn your Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree online from Ashford University. Complete a standard program of study or personalize your program with one of several specializations.

Specialization — Health Care Administration

With your Health Care Administration specialization added to your MBA degree earned online from Ashford University, you will enjoy the confidence that comes from a greater understanding of health policy, economics, and program implementation. Combine major course credits in Business Administration with nine credits in Health Care Administration for a more specialized degree with added value. This specialization prepares you to assume leadership positions in health care organizations. You will increase interpersonal skills while developing expertise in accounting, quality assurance, risk management, health policy, law, statistical analysis, and organizational management. Your focused graduate courses combined with the in-depth professional competence you'll gain from the major coursework will earn you an enhanced MBA degree.

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The MBA program offers a broad set of business management tools while also allowing students a choice of concentration in order to tailor their degrees to fit their careers and learning goals. The program curriculum prepares working professionals to become effective decision makers and managers in a world increasingly affected by globalization, technology, and ethical challenges. It is designed for working professionals from a wide range of backgrounds who wish to advance or enhance their business careers.

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The Master of Health Services Administration (MHSA) program is designed to meet the needs of healthcare professionals and others in health services support industries that wish to obtain the knowledge and skills needed to assume mid-level and executive level managerial positions in health services organizations. Health Services Administration degrees prepare students by training them to manage and direct the business aspects of healthcare. Specific careers, as identified by the Accrediting Commission on Education for Health Services Administration (ACEHSA), include working as hospital administrators, healthcare managers, managed healthcare plan coordinators, and administrators of short and long-term residential facilities.

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This practice-oriented online degree program features a relevant, current curriculum that addresses the core competencies and best practices of the profession. It emphasizes understanding clinical service delivery through the analysis of the day-to-day operations in clinical support service activities and includes a practicum to give you hands-on experience in the field. The cutting-edge curriculum will help you develop the skills, knowledge, and expertise in health care management needed for leadership positions across the spectrum of health care delivery organizations.

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The demand for nurse leaders in education, technology, clinical settings, and at the upper levels of management is increasing. As a professional nurse seeking to meet this growing demand, you must have access to the most current thinking and best practices. Earning a Post-Master's Certificate in Nursing can help you bolster your skills so you can help meet rapidly growing demands for better patient care, achieve greater professional recognition, create new career opportunities or improve long-term career prospects, and improve your position with regard to compensation.

Certificates:

• Nursing Education
• Nursing Leadership & Management
• Nursing Informatics

Walden University's M.S. in Nursing (MSN) is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), a national accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. CCNE ensures the quality and integrity of baccalaureate and graduate education programs in preparing effective nurses. For students, accreditation signifies program innovation and continuous self-assessment. Graduates recognize that, as they seek new positions or entry into doctoral programs, accreditation is valued and may be required.

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Meeting the demand for high-quality, accessible healthcare is one of society's most critical challenges. Walden's Ph.D. in Health Services can help prepare you for decision-making roles at a range of healthcare organizations in the private and public sectors. This degree program offers three ways to learn. Depending on your specialization, you can choose from the course-based, self-directed, or mixed-model format.

Specializations

• Community Health Education and Advocacy
• Health Care Administration
• Health Management and Policy
• Leadership
• Public Health Policy
• Self-Designed

Health Care Administration
Learn to apply best practices in leadership, ethics, and strategic planning as you prepare to administer healthcare programs and services in a range of economic and political settings.

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When you earn a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from Walden, you can enhance your knowledge, expand your influence, and position yourself to advance your career. This ACBSP-accredited program focuses on the development of leadership and management skills. Choose from a range of specializations to meet your career goals.

 

Specializations

• Accounting for Managers
• Corporate Finance
• Entrepreneurship
• Healthcare Management
• Healthcare System Improvement
• Human Resource Management
• International Business
• Leadership
• Marketing
• Project Management
• Risk Management
• Self-Designed
• Strategies for Sustainability
• Technology Management

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Navigate the changing health care field. Health care is experiencing advances in treatment, rigorous patient-privacy regulations, staffing challenges, and issues of cost control. The program is designed to help you develop the proficiencies to make a difference and to find solutions to real-life business situations.

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Examine the role of management in improving the quality and utilization of health care services. Graduates may pursue positions in doctors' offices, medical and surgical hospitals, home health care, outpatient centers, and more.

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The Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in Health Systems Management prepares students to compete for critical leadership roles in current and future organizations. The coursework addresses leadership theory, problem solving, organizational leadership, self-leadership, and highly effective teams. The program prepares students for advanced management or senior administration positions in the health care industry through coursework that addresses the legal and ethical concerns in health care.

Prospective students must have completed a bachelor's degree program prior to enrolling.

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The health care industry will continue to expand and diversify, requiring qualified managers to improve quality and efficiency of health care, while controlling costs, as insurance companies and Medicare demand higher levels of accountability.

This comprehensive and current degree program provides the skills and experience necessary to perform as middle- and upper-level managers in a variety of health care organizations, and to serve as innovative change agents and leaders of organizational improvement and adaptation within the health care industry. The program emphasizes the conceptual, analytical, and application skills required to manage in contemporary health care organizations. Courses include an in-depth examination of health sciences, contemporary health care, research, leadership, organizational structure, human resources, marketing, and business and project planning.

Graduates prepare themselves to excel in administrative positions in hospitals, long-term care facilities, outpatient facilities, physician offices, mental health agencies, insurance companies, public health agencies, and other types of health organizations.

Prospective students must have completed a bachelor's degree program prior to enrolling.

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The Master of Public Administration with an emphasis in Health Care Management prepares students for careers in the public sector, specifically in the healthcare industry.

The program is targeted at individuals who desire to have an impact in the area of healthcare delivery and management at the federal, state and local level.  The core coursework gives students the opportunity to apply administrative skills in the areas of economics, leadership, human capital development, and governance within the healthcare environment.  Emphasis courses will challenge students to identify and provide solutions for the unique issues facing the healthcare industry, such as healthcare ethics, healthcare delivery systems and healthcare economics.

Prospective students must have completed a bachelor's degree program prior to enrolling.

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The South University Master of Healthcare Administration online program is designed for those individuals who want to excel at every level of decision-making. This MBA program provides a sound foundation in business analysis and a rigorous specialization in healthcare administration.

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Earning a Doctor of Business Administration degree in Health Care Administration provides training for students to bring managerial expertise to the health care industry. Health care administrators are in demand at entry and advanced managerial positions in hospitals, in health insurance companies, and in governmental and public health agencies. Prospective students must meet certain prerequisite requirements such as a bachelor's or master's degree or relevant work experience prior to enrolling. These requirements can be discussed with the career counselor when they call.

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Our Ph.D. in Business Administration/Health Care Administration degree program provides training for learners to bring managerial expertise to the health care industry. Health care administrators are in demand at entry and advanced managerial positions in hospitals, in health insurance companies, and in governmental and public health agencies.

Prospective students must meet certain prerequisite requirements such as a bachelor's or master's degree or relevant work experience prior to enrolling. These requirements can be discussed with the career counselor when they call.

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This program is designed for those already working in the healthcare field who seek advancement as well as for those who desire a career in the business side of healthcare. A master's degree in such areas as health services administration, long-term care administration, health sciences, public health, public administration, or business administration is the standard credential for most generalist positions in this field. The program offers business management skills needed within today's health care systems, emphasizing core management, strategy and analytics. The concentration includes courses in marketing for health care organizations, health care accounting, and health care law.