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MASTER OF HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATION

Admission Requirements:• Application and processing fee• Official transcripts in English of all previous

colleges attended. The transcripts must indicate an earned Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university

• Minimum graduate cumulative GPA of 3.0• Two recommendation letters• Statement of Interest • Professional resume

Cost:• Per Credit - $721• Per Course - $2,163• Total Tuition - $25,956

36 Credit Hours

Online

General Track

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HCAD 604: Healthcare AccountabilityAddresses accountability for transforming care delivery to achieve the three elements of improved experience of care, improved population health, and reduced cost per capita.

HCAD 621: Healthcare Policy and EthicsAn overview of policy, regulations, and ethical issues impacting healthcare. Topics include privacy, regulatory compliance, ethical choices in patient care, and healthcare reform. Students will explore healthcare policy and the challenges that arise as the market responds to policy change.

HCAD 627: Innovation and Trends in HealthcareIntroduces current trends and opportunities throughout the healthcare industry. Topics include the role of information technology, innovative approaches to delivery, and other components that influence patient care.

HCAD 691: Healthcare Strategic ManagementAddresses strategy formulation, content, implementation, and performance in a variety of healthcare contexts including providers, plans, systems, suppliers, pharmaceuticals, and biotechs.

HCAD 643: Healthcare Law and the Future of the American Health SystemProvides students with a broad overview of the current US healthcare system. Focuses on the challenges facing the healthcare system. Provides students with an in-depth understanding of theAffordable Care Act and its potential impact on healthcare access, delivery, cost, and quality as well as its effects on healthcare organizations.

HCAD 681: Healthcare MarketingDiscusses and applies the concepts of healthcare planning and marketing to healthcare delivery, assessment of community needs and resource planning in both ambulatory and clinical settings.Includes health services planning and trends, demand for and use of health services, research methods and sources of marketing and planning data.

Curriculum:HCAD 632: Conflict Management in Healthcare OrganizationsExamines the underlying sources of conflict in healthcare settings and presents specific theories and techniques of negotiating among and between medical professionals and administration. While collaboration is emphasized, the course also presents tactics for securing essential terms in bargaining and group facilitation skills for building consensus.

HCAD 687: Human Resources Administration in HealthcareOrganizationsFocuses on the essential role of human resources management within healthcare organizations. Serves as a comprehensive foundation for all aspects of human resources planning, development, and administration.

HCAD 656: Healthcare InformaticsExplores the concepts and techniques of healthcare informatics and the associated role of the informatics professional. The examination of the relationship between information systems, clinical operations and business functions is conducted from the perspective of patient care and the considerations related to the electronic medical record.

Select three courses from the following:HCAD 601: Self-Reflection in Healthcare LeadershipAssists students in understanding personal leadership styles including personality type and communication style. Exposes students to relevant literature on emotional intelligence and interpersonal neurobiology as it relates to leadership in the healthcare context. Students will reflect upon how their Christian identity may influence the healthcare delivery system to promote social justice, equity, and ethical policy.

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BUSA 530: Leadership An overview of how individuals manage and lead themselves and others in business. Topics include theoretical and practical models of leadership, ethical issues of leadership, and forms of influence within groups and corporations. Students will develop and apply a personal leadership framework.

HCAD 641: Change Leadership in HealthcareIdentifies changes in and examines managerial and change leadership concepts, issues, roles, and functions as applied to the role of the healthcare professional in various organizational settings.

HCAD 624: Health Services AdministrationAn overview of the structure and operation of patient care organizations with a focus on managing cost and quality. Students will learn how to manage relationships among patients, physicians, insurers, employers, and others in the industry.

HCAD 647: Healthcare Organizations and Delivery SystemsExamines the nature of health and health care services and reviews the role of government and free market on health and health care services. Explores alternative ways of organizing and financing health care services.

HCAD 664: Health Information SystemsProvides an overview of various health information systems, with emphasis on case studies of systems utilized in areas such as patient-care, clinical decision-support, disease, artificial intelligence, and demographic surveillance, imaging and simulation, and safety and environmental assessment. Fundamentals of proposing, reporting, and refereeing evaluation studies are covered. Legal and ethical issues related to training, security, confidentiality, and the use of informed consent are also addressed.

Curriculum:IS 680: Data MiningIntroduction to the principles, techniques, andtools needed for data mining. Students will learn touse data to make decisions, predict, and estimateoutcomes. Course will include case studies, allowingstudents to review industry cases and use data tomake decisions about business strategy.

IS 682: Data ManagementOverview of the process and tools of datamanagement. Topics include available tools,databases, data acquisition, crowdsourcing,querying, and data cleaning. Students will learn howto effectively collect, organize, and manage datafrom various sources.

IS 684: Data VisualizationProvides introduction to R and the use of Rto create visualization. Explores various datavisualization methods, the process of taking rawdata, creating visualizations, and reporting findings.Provides overview of graph design, giving studentsunderstanding about designing effective graphs.

CONR 606: Theory 1This course introduces students to various communication and social/political theories as means to explain, predict, and ultimately resolve conflict between individuals and groups. The course makes extensive use of television and film to illustrate theoretical analyses of interpersonal and group communication and conflict.

CONR 603: Negotiation - Principles & PracticeNegotiation is a comprehensive study of the conceptual and interpersonal skills required to engage in effective negotiation. Topics include analyzing the negotiation context, preparing a negotiation plan, conducting negotiation sessions, resolving impasses, and documenting agreements. The course entails an emphasis on development, analytical, and interpersonal negotiation skills.

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CONR 604: Mediation - Principles & PracticeA graduate-level course focusing on the art and science of facilitating conversations and negotiations between parties in conflict. Designed for individuals in leadership roles in a wide variety of organizational and personal environments, as well as individuals seeking professional work in conflict resolution, the course presents opportunities for personal assessment and development of party and group facilitation, problem-solving skills, and approaches for conflict management through the role of mediator.

Curriculum:

MASTER OF HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATION

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MASTER OF HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATION

Admission Requirements:• Application and processing fee• Official transcripts in English of all previous

colleges attended. The transcripts must indicate an earned Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university

• Minimum graduate cumulative GPA of 3.0• Two recommendation letters• Statement of Interest • Professional resume

Cost:• Per Credit - $700 • Per Course - $2,100• Total Tuition - $25,200

36 Credit Hours

Online

Administration Track

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HCAD 604: Healthcare AccountabilityAddresses accountability for transforming care delivery to achieve the three elements of improved experience of care, improved population health, and reduced cost per capita.

HCAD 621: Healthcare Policy and EthicsAn overview of policy, regulations, and ethical issues impacting healthcare. Topics include privacy, regulatory compliance, ethical choices in patient care, and healthcare reform. Students will explore healthcare policy and the challenges that arise as the market responds to policy change.

HCAD 627: Innovation and Trends in HealthcareIntroduces current trends and opportunities throughout the healthcare industry. Topics include the role of information technology, innovative approaches to delivery, and other components that influence patient care.

HCAD 691: Healthcare Strategic ManagementAddresses strategy formulation, content, implementation, and performance in a variety of healthcare contexts including providers, plans, systems, suppliers, pharmaceuticals, and biotechs.

HCAD 643: Healthcare Law and the Future of the American Health SystemProvides students with a broad overview of the current US healthcare system. Focuses on the challenges facing the healthcare system. Provides students with an in-depth understanding of theAffordable Care Act and its potential impact on healthcare access, delivery, cost, and quality as well as its effects on healthcare organizations.

HCAD 681: Healthcare MarketingDiscusses and applies the concepts of healthcare planning and marketing to healthcare delivery, assessment of community needs and resource planning in both ambulatory and clinical settings.Includes health services planning and trends, demand for and use of health services, research methods and sources of marketing and planning data.

Curriculum:HCAD 684: Conflict Management in Healthcare OrganizationsExamines the underlying sources of conflict in healthcare settings and presents specific theories and techniques of negotiating among and between medical professionals and administration. While collaboration is emphasized, the course also presents tactics for securing essential terms in bargaining and group facilitation skills for building consensus.

HCAD 687: Human Resources Administration in HealthcareOrganizationsFocuses on the essential role of human resources management within healthcare organizations. Serves as a comprehensive foundation for all aspects of human resources planning, development, and administration.

HCAD TBD: Healthcare InformaticsExplores the concepts and techniques of healthcare informatics and the associated role of the informatics professional. The examination of the relationship between information systems, clinical operations and business functions is conducted from the perspective of patient care and the considerations related to the electronic medical record.

HCAD 624: Health Services AdministrationAn overview of the structure and operation of patient care organizations with a focus on managing cost and quality. Students will learn how to manage relationships among patients, physicians, insurers, employers, and others in the industry.

HCAD 647: Healthcare Organizations and Delivery SystemsExamines the nature of health and health care services and reviews the role of government and free market on health and health care services. Explores alternative ways of organizing and financing health care services.

MASTER OF HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATIONAdministration Track

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HCAD 664: Health Information SystemsProvides an overview of various health information systems, with emphasis on case studies of systems utilized in areas such as patient-care, clinical decision-support, disease, artificial intelligence, and demographic surveillance, imaging and simulation, and safety and environmental assessment. Fundamentals of proposing, reporting, and refereeing evaluation studies are covered. Legal and ethical issues related to training, security, confidentiality, and the use of informed consent are also addressed.

Curriculum:

MASTER OF HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATIONAdministration Track

855-219-7300 | ACU.EDU Version 1 | 05.17

MASTER OF HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATION

Admission Requirements:• Application and processing fee• Official transcripts in English of all previous

colleges attended. The transcripts must indicate an earned Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university

• Minimum graduate cumulative GPA of 3.0• Two recommendation letters• Statement of Interest • Professional resume

Cost:• Per Credit - $700 • Per Course - $2,100• Total Tuition - $25,200

36 Credit Hours

Online

Analytics Track

855-219-7300 | ACU.EDU Version 1 | 05.17

HCAD 604: Healthcare AccountabilityAddresses accountability for transforming care delivery to achieve the three elements of improved experience of care, improved population health, and reduced cost per capita.

HCAD 621: Healthcare Policy and EthicsAn overview of policy, regulations, and ethical issues impacting healthcare. Topics include privacy, regulatory compliance, ethical choices in patient care, and healthcare reform. Students will explore healthcare policy and the challenges that arise as the market responds to policy change.

HCAD 627: Innovation and Trends in HealthcareIntroduces current trends and opportunities throughout the healthcare industry. Topics include the role of information technology, innovative approaches to delivery, and other components that influence patient care.

HCAD 691: Healthcare Strategic ManagementAddresses strategy formulation, content, implementation, and performance in a variety of healthcare contexts including providers, plans, systems, suppliers, pharmaceuticals, and biotechs.

HCAD 643: Healthcare Law and the Future of the American Health SystemProvides students with a broad overview of the current US healthcare system. Focuses on the challenges facing the healthcare system. Provides students with an in-depth understanding of theAffordable Care Act and its potential impact on healthcare access, delivery, cost, and quality as well as its effects on healthcare organizations.

HCAD 681: Healthcare MarketingDiscusses and applies the concepts of healthcare planning and marketing to healthcare delivery, assessment of community needs and resource planning in both ambulatory and clinical settings.Includes health services planning and trends, demand for and use of health services, research methods and sources of marketing and planning data.

Curriculum:HCAD 684: Conflict Management in Healthcare OrganizationsExamines the underlying sources of conflict in healthcare settings and presents specific theories and techniques of negotiating among and between medical professionals and administration. While collaboration is emphasized, the course also presents tactics for securing essential terms in bargaining and group facilitation skills for building consensus.

HCAD 687: Human Resources Administration in HealthcareOrganizationsFocuses on the essential role of human resources management within healthcare organizations. Serves as a comprehensive foundation for all aspects of human resources planning, development, and administration.

HCAD TBD: Healthcare InformaticsExplores the concepts and techniques of healthcare informatics and the associated role of the informatics professional. The examination of the relationship between information systems, clinical operations and business functions is conducted from the perspective of patient care and the considerations related to the electronic medical record.

IS 680: Data MiningIntroduction to the principles, techniques, andtools needed for data mining. Students will learn touse data to make decisions, predict, and estimateoutcomes. Course will include case studies, allowingstudents to review industry cases and use data tomake decisions about business strategy.

IS 682: Data ManagementOverview of the process and tools of datamanagement. Topics include available tools,databases, data acquisition, crowdsourcing,querying, and data cleaning. Students will learn howto effectively collect, organize, and manage datafrom various sources.

MASTER OF HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATIONAnalytics Track

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IS 684: Data VisualizationProvides introduction to R and the use of Rto create visualization. Explores various datavisualization methods, the process of taking rawdata, creating visualizations, and reporting findings.Provides overview of graph design, giving studentsunderstanding about designing effective graphs.

Curriculum:

MASTER OF HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATIONAnalytics Track

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MASTER OF HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATION

Admission Requirements:• Application and processing fee• Official transcripts in English of all previous

colleges attended. The transcripts must indicate an earned Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university

• Minimum graduate cumulative GPA of 3.0• Two recommendation letters• Statement of Interest • Professional resume

Cost:• Per Credit - $721• Per Course - $2,163• Total Tuition - $25,956

36 Credit Hours

Online

Confict Management Track

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HCAD 604: Healthcare AccountabilityAddresses accountability for transforming care delivery to achieve the three elements of improved experience of care, improved population health, and reduced cost per capita.

HCAD 621: Healthcare Policy and EthicsAn overview of policy, regulations, and ethical issues impacting healthcare. Topics include privacy, regulatory compliance, ethical choices in patient care, and healthcare reform. Students will explore healthcare policy and the challenges that arise as the market responds to policy change.

HCAD 627: Innovation and Trends in HealthcareIntroduces current trends and opportunities throughout the healthcare industry. Topics include the role of information technology, innovative approaches to delivery, and other components that influence patient care.

HCAD 691: Healthcare Strategic ManagementAddresses strategy formulation, content, implementation, and performance in a variety of healthcare contexts including providers, plans, systems, suppliers, pharmaceuticals, and biotechs.

HCAD 643: Healthcare Law and the Future of the American Health SystemProvides students with a broad overview of the current US healthcare system. Focuses on the challenges facing the healthcare system. Provides students with an in-depth understanding of theAffordable Care Act and its potential impact on healthcare access, delivery, cost, and quality as well as its effects on healthcare organizations.

HCAD 681: Healthcare MarketingDiscusses and applies the concepts of healthcare planning and marketing to healthcare delivery, assessment of community needs and resource planning in both ambulatory and clinical settings.Includes health services planning and trends, demand for and use of health services, research methods and sources of marketing and planning data.

Curriculum:HCAD 632: Conflict Management in Healthcare OrganizationsExamines the underlying sources of conflict in healthcare settings and presents specific theories and techniques of negotiating among and between medical professionals and administration. While collaboration is emphasized, the course also presents tactics for securing essential terms in bargaining and group facilitation skills for building consensus.

HCAD 687: Human Resources Administration in HealthcareOrganizationsFocuses on the essential role of human resources management within healthcare organizations. Serves as a comprehensive foundation for all aspects of human resources planning, development, and administration.

HCAD 656: Healthcare InformaticsExplores the concepts and techniques of healthcare informatics and the associated role of the informatics professional. The examination of the relationship between information systems, clinical operations and business functions is conducted from the perspective of patient care and the considerations related to the electronic medical record.

CONR 606: Theory 1This course introduces students to various communication and social/political theories as means to explain, predict, and ultimately resolve conflict between individuals and groups. The course makes extensive use of television and film to illustrate theoretical analyses of interpersonal and group communication and conflict.

MASTER OF HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATIONConflict Management Track

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CONR 603: Negotiation - Principles & PracticeNegotiation is a comprehensive study of the conceptual and interpersonal skills required to engage in effective negotiation. Topics include analyzing the negotiation context, preparing a negotiation plan, conducting negotiation sessions, resolving impasses, and documenting agreements. The course entails an emphasis on development, analytical, and interpersonal negotiation skills.

CONR 604: Mediation - Principles & PracticeA graduate-level course focusing on the art and science of facilitating conversations and negotiations between parties in conflict. Designed for individuals in leadership roles in a wide variety of organizational and personal environments, as well as individuals seeking professional work in conflict resolution, the course presents opportunities for personal assessment and development of party and group facilitation, problem-solving skills, and approaches for conflict management through the role of mediator.

Curriculum:

MASTER OF HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATIONConflict Management Track

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MASTER OF HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATION

Admission Requirements:• Application and processing fee• Official transcripts in English of all previous

colleges attended. The transcripts must indicate an earned Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university

• Minimum graduate cumulative GPA of 3.0• Two recommendation letters• Statement of Interest • Professional resume

Cost:• Per Credit - $700 • Per Course - $2,100• Total Tuition - $25,200

36 Credit Hours

Online

Leadership Track

855-219-7300 | ACU.EDU Version 1 | 05.17

HCAD 604: Healthcare AccountabilityAddresses accountability for transforming care delivery to achieve the three elements of improved experience of care, improved population health, and reduced cost per capita.

HCAD 621: Healthcare Policy and EthicsAn overview of policy, regulations, and ethical issues impacting healthcare. Topics include privacy, regulatory compliance, ethical choices in patient care, and healthcare reform. Students will explore healthcare policy and the challenges that arise as the market responds to policy change.

HCAD 627: Innovation and Trends in HealthcareIntroduces current trends and opportunities throughout the healthcare industry. Topics include the role of information technology, innovative approaches to delivery, and other components that influence patient care.

HCAD 691: Healthcare Strategic ManagementAddresses strategy formulation, content, implementation, and performance in a variety of healthcare contexts including providers, plans, systems, suppliers, pharmaceuticals, and biotechs.

HCAD 643: Healthcare Law and the Future of the American Health SystemProvides students with a broad overview of the current US healthcare system. Focuses on the challenges facing the healthcare system. Provides students with an in-depth understanding of theAffordable Care Act and its potential impact on healthcare access, delivery, cost, and quality as well as its effects on healthcare organizations.

HCAD 681: Healthcare MarketingDiscusses and applies the concepts of healthcare planning and marketing to healthcare delivery, assessment of community needs and resource planning in both ambulatory and clinical settings.Includes health services planning and trends, demand for and use of health services, research methods and sources of marketing and planning data.

Curriculum:HCAD 684: Conflict Management in Healthcare OrganizationsExamines the underlying sources of conflict in healthcare settings and presents specific theories and techniques of negotiating among and between medical professionals and administration. While collaboration is emphasized, the course also presents tactics for securing essential terms in bargaining and group facilitation skills for building consensus.

HCAD 687: Human Resources Administration in HealthcareOrganizationsFocuses on the essential role of human resources management within healthcare organizations. Serves as a comprehensive foundation for all aspects of human resources planning, development, and administration.

HCAD TBD: Healthcare InformaticsExplores the concepts and techniques of healthcare informatics and the associated role of the informatics professional. The examination of the relationship between information systems, clinical operations and business functions is conducted from the perspective of patient care and the considerations related to the electronic medical record.

HCAD 641: Change Leadership in HealthcareIdentifies changes in and examines managerial and change leadership concepts, issues, roles, and functions as applied to the role of the healthcare professional in various organiational settings.

MASTER OF HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATIONLeadership Track

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HCAD 601: Self-Reflection in Healthcare LeadershipAssists students in understanding personal leadership styles including personality type and communication style. Exposes students to relevant literature on emotional intelligence and interpersonal neurobiology as it relates to leadership in the healthcare context. Students will reflect upon how their Christian identity may influence the healthcare delivery system to promote social justice, equity, and ethical policy.

BUSA 530: Leadership An overview of how individuals manage and lead themselves and others in business. Topics include theoretical and practical models of leadership, ethical issues of leadership, and forms of influence within groups and corporations. Students will develop and apply a personal leadership framework

Curriculum:

MASTER OF HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATIONLeadership Track