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3.00 Credits
Examines principles in the management of skilled nursing facilities and related institutions for the chronically ill and disabled. Explores issues in the regulation and reimbursement of nursing homes in Illinois. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Provides an overview to managed care as it is evolving in the United States. Emphasis is placed on mainstream programs experiencing substantial success in the market place. Topics include the history of managed care, operating procedures, and techniques employed by managed care plans, and relationships with physicians, employers, and members. Prerequisites: HLAD325 and MGMT301.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Covers various topics relevant to current developments in the health administration field, such as managed care, reengineering, patient-centered care, TQM/CQI, disease management, budgeting, finance, personnel, planning, task analysis, team building, changing work force, healthcare paradigm shift, and many other topics.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Health practitioners discuss many of the issues and problems of the contemporary American healthcare delivery system. Major topics include the role of government, value and ethical considerations, the hospital and the consumer, and issues of manpower, financing, and quality of care.
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3.00 Credits
This is a beginning interdisciplinary graduate course in healthcare organization and administration. The course deals conceptually and factually with the problems and issues of current healthcare delivery systems. The course is an introductory macroanalysis of the U.S. health care delivery systems. It consists of five major parts: a) determinants of health and healthcare services, b) organization of healthcare services, c) financing of healthcare services, d) coordination and control of these three systems, and finally, e) a synthesis: reorganization of healthcare services. The course is designed for healthcare administration students to achieve an understanding and knowledge of the current healthcare delivery systems to enable them to develop and implement appropriate current and future healthcare policies and programs.
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3.00 Credits
Overviews population-based health issues and their administrative implications. Covers such topics as concepts of epidemiology, measurement of health and diseases, determinants of health, cultural and linguistically impacts on community health, and applications of epidemiology in health administration. Focuses on emerging trends and issues in disease patterns, diversity, community resource allocation, and improving and reforming the healthcare delivery system. Prerequisite: HLAD304 or equivalent or instructor's permission. health administration health administration 269
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3.00 Credits
Provides an introduction to computers used to manage and analyze healthcare information. This course includes introductory concepts of computer technology and management of health information systems, concepts of system analysis and problem-solving, and extensive hands-on experience with various microcomputer software packages. Prerequisites: Basic computer skills and MIS301 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces students to the field of health services research, which is defined as "a field of inquiry using quantitative or qualitative methodology to examine the impact of the organization, financing, and management of healthcare services on the access to, delivery, cost, outcomes, and quality of services." Topics to be examined include general concepts in the field, methodological strategies, and critiques of the existing body of research literature. Prerequisite: Graduate student status.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the application of research methods to the administrator's decision-making process. Topics covered include the relevance of research for policy decisionmaking; common measures and statistics used by health administrators; the application of various research methods to health administration; an introduction to computer statistical software packages; and an introduction to information systems. Prerequisites: STAT 468; may be taken concurrently with HLAD701.
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3.00 Credits
Structured Query Language (SQL) is the dominant language for database queries. Healthcare organizations have to store data in a SQL server for data processing. This course is not only designed to provide the core foundation for installing, managing, and supporting the SQL server, but also designed to help the student understand a compiled language for hospital file maintenance: TAL. Prerequisite: MIS301 or permission of instructor.
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