The fast-paced field of healthcare is a diverse and intriguing venue. In addition to providing for the utmost in patient care and well being, healthcare management professionals must also be in tuned with compliance and regulatory needs—areas that are in a fluctuating state amidst governmental reform.

The CTU MBA with a concentration in Healthcare Management combines a challenging business administration curriculum with industry-current healthcare concepts and practices. Taught by instructors, many with real world experience in the healthcare field, the program is designed to help students learn skills in management, resource allocation, risk assessment and financing.

In this industry-current curriculum, our project-based Professional Learning Model™ can challenge you to build the knowledge necessary to apply sound business principles and practices to the unique field of healthcare. The CTU PLM™ is designed to place you in the active role of collaborative problem-solver as you apply critical thinking to the diverse disciplines found in healthcare organizations.

CTU's MBA with a concentration in Healthcare Management covers a range of skills relevant to the healthcare environment including management concepts and processes, resource allocation, risk assessment, and financing. In this program, students can learn how to:

• Apply sound business principles and practices to the unique field of healthcare.
• Coordinate resources effectively within legal, regulatory and ethical constraints.
• Demonstrate visionary leadership skills by creating innovative solutions to management.
• Apply critical thinking to the diverse disciplines found in healthcare organizations.
• Demonstrate change agent skills that reflect critical and creative thinking regarding human resource management issues.
• Apply the management, legal and ethical issues of diversity, affirmative action, employee and labor relations to the design of organizational decision models and policies.

CTU’s program offers the opportunity to learn industry-current practices in diversity, affirmative action and employee and labor relations to facilitate the design of decision models and policies that can support a healthcare organization’s livelihood. In the concentration courses, students can learn about the healthcare management field. For example:

• In Managing the Healthcare Organization, students can be provided with a general orientation to management practices in the healthcare field, with a focus on applying essential management concepts and processes to the unique social, physical and emotional environments of healthcare organizations.
• In Ethics, Policy and Law in Healthcare Management, students can examine key ethical, regulatory and legal issues related to healthcare management and delivery of healthcare services. Emphasis can be placed on the interface of ethics, policy, and law on medical negligence, malpractice and professional liability, medical records, medical records management, patient consent, confidentiality, privacy, patient rights and responsibilities, contracts, labor relations, and other current issues.
• In Systems in Healthcare, students can focus on issues facing healthcare systems in a changing environment. Students can examine resource allocation, risk assessment and financing.
• The Healthcare Management Capstone can use the functional skills students have developed in previous core and concentration courses in this program – including healthcare, business management, and business administration - to complete an in-depth project. The course may require the student to perform comprehensive research, analysis, and study on either a desired area of interest or a major business problem or issue that impacts the student’s own company or organization. The student can utilize research methodologies to prepare a formal research report.

Core courses in this program can focuse on skills in management, resource allocation, risk assessment, financing and more, all while following current legal, ethical and policy provisions. Courses include:

• Applied Managerial Accounting
• Applied Managerial Economics
• Strategic Management in Dynamic Environments
• Applied Managerial Finance
• Leadership and Ethical Decision‐Making
• Applied Managerial Decision‐Making
• Graduate Research Methods
• Applied Managerial Marketing