The University of Evansville’s Master of Science in health
services administration is designed for those who want to assume
management positions in public and private health service organizations.
The multidisciplinary approach to the program is enhanced by the
utilization of adjunct faculty from the business community and health
care organizations in addition to University of Evansville full-time
faculty.
Most graduate students are enrolled in the program part-time and
take one or two courses each semester in the evening. You may also
enroll as a full-time graduate student and take both day and evening
classes.
HSA 505 Health Care Systems: Issues and Trends
(3) — Provides
an overview of the health care system. Reviews the history
and current
status of various segments of health care. Includes an
analysis of the impact of socioeconomic, political, current
health care
issues and trends.
HSA 506 Jurisprudence and Ethics
in Health Care (3) — Emphasizes legal and ethical processes and
their application to the health
care organization, administrator, staff, employees and
patients. Included are ethical dimensions of the decision-making
process
and current ethical issues in health care.
HSA 507 Health
Care Research and Design (3) — Examines research principles
and methods as they contribute to health care
organizations and
the delivery system. Provides experience in developing
a research proposal and formal critique of research literature.
HSA 512 Health Services Organizational
Behavior (3) — Uses
various organizational, managerial and behavioral theories,
concepts
and principles in analyzing, diagnosing, predicting and
guiding human
behavior within health care organizations. Emphasis is
given to motivation, leadership, change, communication,
personality,
group
dynamics, decision making and organizational development.
The importance of understanding professional roles within
health
care organizations
is stressed.
HSA 514 Health Care Management
and Human Resources (3) — Includes the study of management theory and practice
as applied by managers of health services. Analysis of the manager's
roles, interactions
with people, the organization and the environment are emphasized.
Special emphasis is also provided on human resource issues.
HSA
516 Health Care Information Systems (3) — Provides an understanding
of the concepts and applications of information
systems used
in the management of health care systems.
HSA 520 Health
Care Planning and Marketing (3) — Integrates long-range
goal planning with dimensions of marketing for
health care services.
Concepts, techniques and theories will be used in the planning
and management of marketing in the health care industry.
HSA 524 Health Problems in Health
Care (3) — A study of
health promotion, specific diseases and health problems throughout
the life cycle.
Includes communicable and chronic diseases and conditions
that affect the individual, the family and the community.
The role
of the health care system in dealing with these problems
through prevention
and treatment is explored.
HSA 528 Financial Management
of Health Care Organizations (3) — Focuses on the acquisition,
allocation and management
control
of financial
resources within health care organizations. Included are
cost analysis, financial position analysis and strategies,
reimbursement,
pricing
policies, budgeting, capital expenditure, analysis of financial
reports, and informal and external controls.
HSA 529 Health
Services Field Experiences (3-6) — Provides a field experience
within a selected health care organization
with the
supervision of an agency preceptor and faculty member.
The design of this course is dependent upon the individual
student's past
and present work experiences in health care organizations
as well as future goals.
HSA 532 Managed Health Care (3) — Examines the changing role of managed care organizations
in the health care system.
The history,
basic
structure of managed care firms, the interrelationships
among providers, and their evolving role will be discussed.
Their impact
on health
care economics will be also discussed in detail.
HSA 567
Statistics for Appraisal and Evaluation (3) — Focuses on
the analysis of data common to health care. Includes
data description,
elements of probability, distribution of random variables,
estimation and confidence intervals, binomial and normal
distributions,
hypothesis testing, contingency tables, regression analysis
and ANOVA.
HSA 590 Decision Making in HealthCare
(3) — Examines
decision making in health services administration by extensive
use
of case studies.
Material from other HSA courses is integrated into the
study of decisions facing all types of health care organizations.
HSA
599 Special Topics: The British & U.S. Health Care
Systems: A Comparative Study (3) — This
course examines the origin and current
status of the health care systems in Great Britain and
the United States. Visits are included to modern health care
facilities and
relevant historical sites in England. This course is taught
in England and is based at the Harlaxton College. Note:
This course
is offered frequently at our Harlaxton campus during the
summer session in a 5-week and a 10-day format. Next offering
for the 5-week format will
be in May 2007. The 10-day class will next be offered June 1 - June 10, 2007.
