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4.00 Credits
This application course utilizes the principles developed in the MGT 230 Principles of Business Management course and applies current concepts and management techniques to actual situations in a fire service organization. Prerequisite: Junior status HCM 101: Introduction to Health Care Management and Administration, 4 Credits Analysis of key issues in the management and administration of comprehensive health care facilities. Focuses on the administrator's relationship to the medical and nursing professions and assesses the attributes of the various types of health service organizations.
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4.00 Credits
Analysis of problems and issues associated with management of health care organizations, and distinguishes between various types of organizations. Focuses on hospitals, mental care centers, long-term care facilities, and community clinics. Introduction to special terminology, culture and behavior patterns that characterize health care, with emphasis on implications for administration of health care institutions.
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4.00 Credits
Analysis of economic factors bearing on the costs and affordability of health care. Public perceptions, attitudes, and political pressures as they affect demand for health services; reimbursement policies shaping service delivery; competition and alternative delivery systems; managed care and other government and private payer attempts to control costs, and overview of the medical cost containment crisis.
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4.00 Credits
Students will have the opportunity to follow the growth of the health care industry since its entry into the business arena. An assessment of post World War II changes in health care, managed care, and managed competition will be addressed. Changes in incentives for physicians, hospitals, and health care providers will be discussed. An assessment of new technology and techniques introduced into the health care industry will also be addressed.
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4.00 Credits
The externship (400 hours of paid employment) is designed to provide the student with supervised on-the-job training. A contract between the college, student, and employer provides the groundwork. Objectives, evaluations, written log, and a study of the organization are designed to provide a realistic learning experience. Prerequisite: Faculty approval
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4.00 Credits
Application of accounting concepts and techniques to managerial decision making in the health care industries. Emphasis on the issues of accounting information as opposed to the preparation of accounting information. The central theme is to convey an understanding of budgets and operational data, to analyze, and to know what to look for to make intelligent managerial decisions.
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4.00 Credits
Examines how private and public agencies determine program priorities, allocate resources to execute those programs, and obtain funds through taxation, bond issues, and other means. Explores cash flow problems related to third-party payments. Uses case study analysis to determine financial techniques and reporting for health care providers.
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4.00 Credits
Analyzes special problems of forecasting, planning, staffing, and developing human resource management in health care institutions. Explores legal aspects of human resource management and administration in the industry, with emphasis on compliance.
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4.00 Credits
Basic principles of law applicable to the business world, emphasizing contract, sales, bailments, negotiable instruments, agency, partnerships, corporations, insurance, and real estate.
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4.00 Credits
Comprehensive examination of those systems that measure and maintain quality in health care. Continuous improvements of the Total Quality Management discipline as it applies to health care.
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