Health Administration
- Mission Statement
The DCHP Health Administration (HA) provides the best education and opportunities to prepare students to pursue graduate studies or employment, the best support of faculty, and the best relationships with its healthcare partners and community.
- Student Learning Outcomes
- Certificate (Not Applicable)
- Associate Degree (Not Applicable)
- Bachelor Degree
HAS Program Competencies
The program has developed twelve competencies arrayed within three domains, Personal Development, Professional Development and Applied Skills. These competencies also align with our accrediting body, Association of Universities Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA).
Personal Development
- Communication: The graduate will demonstrate professional-level proficiency in written and oral communication, be able to communicate across health disciplines, prepare effective reports, and make business presentations.
- Collaboration and Teamwork: Be able to work effectively in teams and to collaborate and develop positive relationships with peers, subordinates and superiors.
- Critical and Creative Thinking: The graduate will be able to seek information using management tools to collect data and apply metrics, to analyze data, form conclusions and make recommendations even when dealing with ambiguities in the information.
- Professionalism: The graduate will have the ability to align personal and organizational conduct with ethical, legal, and professional standards and will be responsible for self-direction.
Professional Development- Leadership: The graduate will have an understanding of supervisory and management principles as well as the ability to effect change in teams and organizational units through positive influence on both peers and subordinates.
- Organizational Awareness and Governance: The graduate will understand the structure, governance, and functioning of health care entities and systems as well as the importance of integration across the health care spectrum.
- Community Awareness: The ability to investigate population health characteristics and assess population health needs in a local community. The graduate should demonstrate an awareness of the ecological and social factors that influence health behavior.
Applied Skills
- Human Resources Management: The graduate will understand and be able to implement the human resource processes needed for staffing and operating a healthcare organization.
- Financial Management: Ability to examine and interpret financial and accounting documents, understand and utilize budgets, understand third party payment processes, apply variance analysis and other techniques to managerial accounting information in order to understand and improve operations.
- Information Technology Management: The ability to recognize critical elements of information technology and use information technology for decision support.
- Performance Improvement and Quality Management: The ability to use quality and systems tools to measure, promote and implement quality improvement and patient satisfaction initiatives in health service organizations while accepting shared accountability for outcomes.
- Marketing and Strategic Planning: The ability to conduct an external and internal environmental analysis for a health services organization, develop a marketing plan for a health services product, and understand the principles of strategy formulation.
- Certificate (Not Applicable)
- Curriculum Grid
- Program and Contact Information
The Health Administrative Services program focuses on developing the fundamental concepts, knowledge, and skills to prepare students to assume supervisor and mid-level management roles in a broad range of healthcare organizations, including hospitals, health systems, physician group practices, long-term care facilities, consulting firms, managed care and insurance companies. Focus is placed upon three areas including personal development, professional development, and applied skills. Collaboration between students, faculty, and healthcare organizations promotes the development of critical-thinking skills, systems integration, values, and community involvement in solving problems and adapting to a changing environment. The Health Administrative Services program is certified by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA), which requires demonstration of program excellence through a peer evaluation process.
Contact Information:
Brian Cottle
Weber State University
Dumke Center
3959 Stadium Way, Dept. 3911
Ogden, UT 84408-3911
801-626-7298 - Assessment Plan
Courses to be reviewed and measured during each academic year
Core Requirements- HAS 3000 - The Health Care System
- HAS 3010 - Professionalism in Healthcare
- HAS 3020 - Health Care Marketing
- PUBH 3150 - Community Health Agencies and Services
- HAS 3230 - Health Communication
- HAS 3240 - Human Resource Development in Health Care
- HAS 3260 - Health Care Leadership and Management
- HAS 3750 - Health Care Financial Administration
- HAS 4320 - Health Care Economics and Policy
- HAS 4400 - Legal and Ethical Aspects of Health Administration
- HAS 4525 – Post-acute Care
- HAS 4741 - Senior Seminar Capstone
- HAS 4860 - Practicum/Internship
- HIM 2330 – Healthcare Reimbursement
- HIM 3000 – Health Informatics
- HIM 3550 – Healthcare Data Analytics
- PUBH 3200 - Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- HIM 3300 - Introduction to Quality Improvement in Healthcare
Elective Courses- HAS 3190 - Cultural Diversity in Patient Education
- HAS 4160 – Medical Group Management
- HAS 4410 - Clinical Instructional Design and Evaluation
- HAS 4420 - Clinical Instructional Skills
- HAS 4520 – Long-term Care Administration
- HAS 4620 - International Health and Healthcare
- HAS 4800 - Individual Study
- HAS 4850 - Study Abroad
- HAS 4990 - Seminar
Per AUPHA, our accrediting body, we were requested to implement reviewing each course every calendar year. The assessed outcomes are listed in Evidence of Learning below, which contains a copy of the evidence-based reporting tables. These are evaluated and gathered each year and meet the standards of AUPHA.
- Assessment Report Submissions
- Program Review
This information is part of the cyclical program review process. Details such as mission statements, learning outcomes, etc., are updated as part of the biennial assessment reporting process, an integral component of program review.