Public Health
PHTH 5226: Strategic Management and Leadership in Healthcare
Lecture - 3 credits
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- Focuses on management challenges facing healthcare organizations, particularly community-based agencies and their role in the public healthcare delivery system.
- Introduces strategic thinking and leadership approaches that must be considered for managing a successful healthcare organization.
- Selected topics include strategic planning; organizational development and the barriers to organizational change; relationship management with key internal and external constituencies; marketing, financial management, and contract negotiation; evolving principles of health insurance and the changing role of the consumer; and the key elements for effective organizational leadership in today's evolving healthcare marketplace.
- When appropriate, outside experts are used to supplement readings, case studies, and lecture and discuss practical real-world challenges in leading various healthcare initiatives.
- Requires permission of instructor for students outside designated programs.
Focuses on management challenges facing healthcare organizations, particularly community-based agencies and their role in the public healthcare delivery system. Show more.