Grand Canyon University offers the Master of Public Administration with an Emphasis in Health Care Management to individuals seeking careers in the public sector specifically to obtain management or leadership positions within a public health care institution. Offered by the university in the online format, the program facilitates the acquisition of knowledge, comprehension and skills necessary for advancing careers. Graduates are expected to gain a deeper understanding of health care core organization in the administrative and operational aspects.

Total program length is thirty-six (36) credits. Required courses include Public Organizational Theory, Economics for Public Administrators, Acquiring/Developing/and Leveraging Human Capital, Servant Leadership, Public Governance, Public Budgeting and Financial Management, Legal and Ethical Principles in Health Care, Analysis of Contemporary Health Care Delivering Models, and Health Care Policies and Economics. Coursework include essential health care subjects as well as business and management topics.

Courses that are specific to the Emphasis in Health Care Management provides learning in the principles and models for recognizing, analyzing and resolving ethical dilemmas related to the field as the legal responsibility and a health care facility’s obligation to provide protection not only exists to patients but to family and staff as well. Students are also expected to gain a comprehensive understanding of contemporary health care models in various perspectives while relating the different factors that serve to drive and support them. Development skills in practical financial analysis that can readily be applied to the health care industry coupled with managerial decision-making processes are given special attention in the last required course.

Applicants should have already earned a Bachelor’s degree and must be US citizens. The university is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

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