HCA 470 - Strategic Planning and Implementation in Health Care

Institution:

Grand Canyon University

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Description:

This course introduces students to the strategic environment that exists in health care and the models for planning effective programs, implementing programs, and program evaluation in health care settings. The course introduces special procedures and options available to health care organizations and provides methods for identifying, gathering, and utilizing data for decision making. Students are presented with the theory of health care administration using a strategic management framework and study the role played by the key business functions (finance, marketing, human resources, information technology, and law) as well as specific strategic options (merger/acquisition, reorganization, joint venture) and some of the popular tools for analyzing strategic situations (balanced scorecard, Six Sigma, SWOT). The culmination of efforts in the course is to complete the multistep process of creating strategic and implementation plans related to the work done in HLT 364 and the upcoming capstone project. A writing-intensive course. Prerequisites: HLT 364.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.gcu.edu

Phone Number:

(800) 800-9776

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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