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What is the MHA program?
What's special about this program?
What does the curriculum offer?
Can I continue to work while completing this program?
Program details
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Is this program accredited?
UIC School of Public Health:
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The only CEPH-Accredited School of Public Health in Illinois
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An ASPH Member
A program of the Division of Health Policy
and Administration of the School of Public Health
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Course Descriptions
| ACTG 500
| Intro to Financial and Managerial Accounting
| 4 hours |
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Concepts and principles of financial accounting for preparation of external
reports. Cost concepts and analysis for managerial accounting, planning and control. CBA
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| BSTT 400
| Biostatistics I
| 4 hours |
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Descriptive statistics, basic probability concepts, one- and two-sample
statistical inference, analysis of variance, and simple linear regression.
Introduction to a statistical computer package such as Minitab or SAS. SPH
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| EPID 400
| Principles of Epidemiology
| 3 hours |
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Introduction to descriptive and analytic epidemiology, determinants of
health and disease in populations, and application of epidemiologic methods
to disease control; includes use of basic epidemiologic software.
Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in BSTT 400 or consent of the instructor. SPH
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| FIN 500
| Introduction to Corporate Finance
| 4 hours |
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Credit is not given for FIN 500 if the student has credit in MBA 504.
Theory of corporate finance: goal of the firm, time value of money,
investment decisions (under certainty and uncertainty), net present value,
capital markets, and corporate financing decisions. Prerequisites: ACTG 500 and ECON 520. CBA
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| HPA 403
| U.S. Healthcare System
| 3 hours |
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Overview of the U.S. healthcare system, including its evolution,
utilization patterns, providers - human, institutional and organizational - financing,
regulating, evaluating, and reforming. SPH
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| HPA 410
| Health Organizational Leadership
| 3 hours |
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Health personnel policies and programs, human resources requirements,
recruitment, development, performance appraisal, salary and wage administration,
and management/labor relations in the health industry. Prerequisite(s):
Enrollment in the MHA program or consent of the instructor. SPH
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| HPA 417
| Quality Management in Health Services
| 3 hours |
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Surveys development of quality management in health services and theoretical
basics and diverse perspectives of quality management and regulation.
Presents relevant research and management methodologies. SPH
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| HPA 434
| Law and the Healthcare System
| 3 hours |
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This course is a survey of legal topics important to the management
of healthcare organizations. They include: Relationships among the parties
involved in the delivery of healthcare and the law of business organizations. SPH
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| HPA 441
| Strategic Management of Healthcare Organizations
| 3 hours |
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This course introduces students to strategic competitive analysis for
healthcare organizations. Topics include: Population based planning,
healthcare competition, entrepreneurship, technology and innovation,
multi-constituent environment, and human resources. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. SPH
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| HPA 451
| Healthcare Finance
| 3 hours |
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This course will examine practical aspects of finance in healthcare and
recent developments in financial management of healthcare organizations,
and applications of financial management techniques to specific problems facing healthcare managers.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. SPH
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| HPA 463
| Managerial Health Economics
| 3 hours |
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Uses managerial economics to study healthcare system: demand for medical services;
role of health insurance; productivity/cost measurement; labor markets and competition.
Prerequisite(s): HPA 400 or consent of the instructor. SPH
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| HPA 465
| Health Information and Decision Support Systems
| 4 hours |
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Introduction to computer assisted management information and decision systems in health
organizations: analysis and design of databases; data and information flow; reports; and
uses of microcomputers. This is an online course. SPH
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| HPA 470
| Quantitative Methods for Healthcare Managers
| 2 hours |
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This course will supplement the basic statistics taught in BSTT 400 with quantitative methods that will be taught
within the context of specific decision-making issues encountered by healthcare managers and leaders.
Prerequisite(s): BSTT 400 or consent of the instructor. SPH
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| HPA 490
| Special Topics in Healthcare Leadership
| 1 hour |
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This course will provide students with a series of explorations of various leadership specialty areas within the delivery
of healthcare. The specific demands and skill of each will be covered. Must be taken twice. Prerequisite(s): Graduate or
professional standing and approval of the department.SPH
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| HPA 494
| Healthcare Human Resource Management
| 4 hours |
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This course provides a survey of human resource management practices as applied to the
specific world of Healthcare, examining a wide variety of topics, including managing
independently licensed professionals. the emergence of organized labor, and the
emergence of strategic labor - management partnerships.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. SPH
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| HPA 495
| MHA Preceptorship
| 1 to 3 hours |
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Preceptor-guided field experience in health administration designed to promote critical
thinking and problem solving skills and application of management knowledge and skills
in a practice setting. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. Must be repeated to a
maximum of 5 hours. Prerequisite(s): Graduate or professional standing and approval of the department.
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| HPA 496
| MHA Capstone
| 1 hour |
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Individual, integrative product in health administration designed to demonstrate
student's mastery of health administration concepts and skills, including information
access, synthesis and use in critical thinking. Prerequisite(s): Graduate or professional
standing and approval of the department.
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| HPA 525
| Management of Health Risks
| 3 hours |
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This course demonstrates the application of population data, analytic techniques,
market research, and epidemiologic techniques to the forecasting of future health needs
of a community, and the design of healthcare delivery programs to meet those needs.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. SPH
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| HPA 551
| Marketing Health Programs
| 3 hours |
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Concepts of marketing as a management tool; application of marketing to healthcare:
the marketing process, marketing resources, and strategies for accomplishing marketing objectives.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. SPH
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