Health Care Administration

Post-Master's Certificate

The Health Care Administration post-master’s certificate prepares health care administrators like you to analyze decisions and recommendations based on strategic planning. Overall, you will explore advanced concepts and applications of financial management, legal, ethical and global issues relating to total quality management in health care.

Basis of Admission

A completed master's-level or higher degree from an accredited institution or university.

Scope

Six Courses (18 credit hours) must be completed from the coursework outlined within the corresponding Post-Master's Certificate.

At the end of each Post-Master's Certificate (except where noted), students will complete a final written research project, demonstrating the ability to conduct an investigation on a workplace problem, identify an area for intervention, critique, justify, and recommend a plan of preventative action.

Course Length

All courses are 8 weeks in length. Northcentral University allows 2 years to complete all Post-Master's Certificates.

Specialization Courses - 18 credit hours

Course Code

Name

Course Description

HCA7012-8

Health Care Industry and Financial Management

This doctoral level course focuses on an enhanced level of understanding of what it takes to captain healthcare organizations through these tough financial times. Mastery of course concepts require demonstration of critical thinking and communication skills by a combination of APA style research papers, self-assessments, quantitative reasoning, and observations, interviews, and written assignments.

HCA7013-8

Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Care Research Management

This Doctoral level course is designed for students with a focus on research management and ethics within the health care industry. Using cases and examples, the first part of the course focuses on major management and leadership issues and the second part deals with legal and ethically relevant matters. These may include research methods, various publishing and authorship issues, conflicts of interest and misconduct, human subjects, intellectual property, and data manipulation.

HCA7014-8

Advanced Concepts and Applications in Health Policy and Management

This comprehensive Doctoral level course focuses on key principles and practices of health care management, planning, and policy-making. students will study key principles of the historical development, structure, and operation of the health care delivery system and will explore the way health care is delivered, the role of policy formulation, and health care resource and ethical considerations. Mastery of course concepts requires demonstration of critical thinking and communication.

HCA7015-8

Health Care Educational Theory and Application

In this doctoral course, students evaluate the present the health care delivery system and educational theories. This course utilizes the students skills in comprehension, analysis, and synthesis to integrate these frameworks in the design and evaluation of health care industry. Mastery of course concepts requires demonstration of critical thinking and communication skills by a combination of research papers, self-assessments, quantitative reasoning, interviews, observations, case studies, written assignments or other activities.

HCA7020-8

Global Issues in Health Care Policy and Management

This doctoral course will address the global issues of health care policy and management with particular emphasis on global perspectives. These global perspectives are both comparative and trans-national. Thus, the focus will compare the ethical approaches to health system issues in various countries on informed consent, refusal of treatment, physician-assisted suicide, and reproductive health. Finally, the course will examine issues regarding U.S. health professionals and organizations providing services in other countries.

HCA8010CAGS-8

Healthcare Administration

The student will create a comprehensive research project that seeks to create a unique solution to a stated, real or hypothetical defined topic approved by the Mentor. Research scope and definitions must be declared before the specific approved project can commence. students will be assessed on demonstrated proficiency in designed assignments, which will culminate into a final research project.

At Northcentral University, we pride ourselves in being completely transparent when it comes to tuition and fees. We have adopted an all-inclusive tuition model that gives you the cost of your Post-Master's Certificate in Business tuition and fees in one flat program rate*. The only additional cost above your post-master's certificate program rate is books. Learn more about the NCU’s post-master's certificate costs below:

  • Per credit cost: $857
  • Per 3 credit course cost: $2,570
  • Program cost: $15,420
  • Average book cost per course: $150
  • Application Fee: $0
  • Technology Fee: $0
  • Registration Fee: $0

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*Program rates are subject to change and generally increase at the start of each calendar year.

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