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Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Management

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Build the Business and Leadership Skills Needed to Navigate Modern Healthcare Systems

The Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Management provides essential foundations for effectively leading and managing healthcare systems.

This program is stackable within the Master of Science in Healthcare Management, Online MBA, and Master of Science in Business Data Science & Analytics programs. This means that 100% of the credits earned in the Healthcare Management Graduate Certificate program can be applied toward one of these graduate degree programs.

Online
At your own pace, asynchronous courses
10 Credits
Complete 5 program courses
Stackable
Apply certificate credits toward an Online MBA, M.S. in Healthcare Management, or M.S. in Business Data Science & Analytics

Develop the Skills Needed to Lead Healthcare Organizations

  • Healthcare Systems & Policy
    Examine the structure of healthcare systems, economic policy, financing models, and healthcare delivery to better understand the forces shaping the industry.
  • Strategic Leadership & Innovation
    Develop the critical thinking, innovation, and strategic management skills needed to guide healthcare organizations through change and growth.
  • Healthcare Finance & Analytics
    Apply financial management, cost analysis, and business analytics tools to support operational effectiveness and informed decision-making.
  • Quality, Compliance & Organizational Performance
    Strengthen expertise in performance management, healthcare regulations, compliance, ethics, and workforce leadership.

Curriculum for the Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Management (10 Credits)

The Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Management is available online. Students must complete 10 credits as specified below.

1. Complete the following course (2 credits):

2. Complete one of the following courses (2 credits):

  • HCM 801: Critical Thinking and Innovation in Healthcare

    Total Credits: 2

    Critical thinking and innovation as vital management tools for healthcare professionals. Strategies for dealing with cognitive biases and unrecognized assumptions. Determining causality. Navigating pathways in critical reasoning. Maximizing reasoning effectiveness. Developing and implementing innovative design, processes, and leadership in healthcare.

  • HCM 811: Healthcare Strategic Management

    Total Credits: 2

    Examines ways top managers create and sustain competitive advantage in today’s challenging healthcare marketplace from a total firm perspective.

3. Complete one of the following courses (2 credits):

  • HCM 802: Cost Analysis in Healthcare

    Total Credits: 2

    Cost accounting and management control tools and techniques for making value-added decisions in important healthcare contexts. Topics will include (a) Cost Analysis: cost estimation, cost allocation, and cost behavior; (b) Pricing: revenue management and strategic product-mix decisions; (c) Profitability: analytical techniques for determining profitability of departments, services, and patients; (d) Control: budgeting, variance analysis, coordination of activities among departments; and (e) Contracting with suppliers and insurance companies.

  • HCM 804: Financial Management in Healthcare

    Total Credits: 2

    Financial management tools for investment and financing decision making in healthcare firms. Risk, valuation, capital budgeting. Analysis of the financial condition of the firm through the examination of financial statements. Current events and applications.

  • HCM 825: Analytics in Healthcare

    Total Credits: 2

    Overview of the concepts and methods of business analytics as it relates to healthcare management. Examination of the role of analytics in transforming the business practice of healthcare, including a better assessment of cost effectiveness, learning curves in the practice of medicine, identifying best practices for evidence-based medicine.

4. Complete 4 additional credits from approved coursework related to managing the business of healthcare systems. Students may select from the following courses or other courses approved by the program director:

  • HCM 805: Quality, Risk, and Performance Management

    Total Credits: 2

    Managing healthcare performance by means of quality initiatives, process management, and risk management. Relevant methods, principles, processes, strategies and systems thinking.

  • HCM 807: Law and Ethics in Healthcare

    Total Credits: 2

    Legal and ethical doctrines, principles, applications, and issues in healthcare organizations. Legal and ethical dimensions of decision making, administrative law, and planning in healthcare.

  • HCM 809: Organizational Behavior in Healthcare

    Total Credits: 2

    Role of workforce leadership in fulfilling the goals and mission of healthcare organizations. Theories and applications of organizational behavior principles to motivating, rewarding, and structuring employees’ work. Managing groups and teams. Structuring the organization. Domestic and international issues in the workplace.

  • HCM 813: Healthcare Services Marketing

    Total Credits: 2

    The principles and processes of marketing and its role in effectively managing healthcare services for improvement and policy making.

  • HCM 821: Healthcare Regulations

    Total Credits: 2

    Examines the role of regulations in the healthcare industry, focusing on standards of regulatory and accreditation organizations. Explores regulation in relationship to organizational culture and performance.

  • HCM 822: Healthcare Compliance

    Total Credits: 2

    Explores the importance of compliance in healthcare organizations. Effective healthcare compliance, governance issues, fiduciary responsibilities, and challenges faced in the healthcare industry.

Admissions

Admissions Criteria

To be considered for admission to the Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Management, an applicant must:

  1. Be employed in a managerial position with work experience that will enhance contributions to the team and the program, and/or have demonstrated potential for career advancement and leadership in the public or private sector.
  2. Be recommended for acceptance into the program by two or more professional colleagues.
  3. Have a bachelor’s degree from a recognized educational institution or equivalent academic credential. The educational institution, academic program, and academic record are considered.
  4. Have personal attributes such as demonstrated management potential and maturity, leadership qualities, intellectual curiosity, perseverance, and a drive to succeed.
  5. Successfully complete an interview/evaluation, articulating professional goals and how the program will contribute to personal success.

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Tuition

Tuition for the Healthcare Management Graduate Certificate online program is billed at $1,200 per credit-hour, whether you are an in-state or out-of-state student.  

Additional course-related expenses for reading materials or software licenses may be incurred. 

Contact Information

  • Healthcare Management Graduate Certificate
  • Minskoff Pavilion
  • 651 N Shaw Ln Rm M100
  • East Lansing, MI 48824
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