Online Health Care Management Graduate Programs

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With Walden's Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.), you can develop skills and gain hands-on learning experience that can position you to advance into a leadership position as a consultant or executive. Sharpen your decision-making and leadership skills, broaden your knowledge of both theory and applied research, and gain the experience you need to manage positive change within your organization. Specializations focus on the latest research, theories, and trends influencing business.

 

Specializations

• Accounting
• Entrepreneurship
• Finance
• Global Supply Chain Management
• Healthcare Management
• Information Systems Management
• International Business
• Leadership
• Marketing
• Project Management
• Self-Designed
• Social Impact Management
• Technology Entrepreneurship

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Whether you are looking to advance your career in the business, nonprofit, or government sector, Walden's M.S. in Management program can help prepare you to successfully manage projects and processes and direct people. Gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence to become a more effective manager by learning to integrate and align organizational processes and systems, and motivate people to meet today's critical challenges and goals.

Specializations

• General
• Global Management
• Healthcare Management
• Human Resource Management
• Managers as Leaders
• Project Management
• Research Strategies
• Strategy and Operations
• Sustainable Management
• Technology Management

Healthcare Management
Expand your knowledge of the components of healthcare delivery systems and the continuum of health services. Examine the economic principles and decision-making strategies related to the structure and distribution of healthcare resources and services.

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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

Leadership
Develop competencies in organizational change management, team building, mediation, and systems planning and thinking that will enable you to work more effectively with varied workforces and communities.

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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 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.