Examines methods of developing leadership in supervisory health managers, issues of compensation administration, and specific labor and HRM law governing health care institutions. This course is also structured to prepare students for the long-term care administrators licensing exam. Examines the long-term care needs of the chronically ill and disabled, and actual and proposed public policy responses to those needs. Examines principles in the management of skilled nursing facilities and related institutions for the chronically ill and disabled. Explores issues in the regulation and reimbursement of nursing homes in Illinois.
Emphasis is placed on mainstream programs experiencing substantial success in the market place.
Topics include the history of managed care, operating procedures, and techniques employed by managed care plans, and relationships with physicians, employers, and members. Health practitioners discuss many of the issues and problems of the contemporary American health care delivery system. Major topics include the role of government, value and ethical considerations, the hospital and the consumer, and issues of manpower, financing, and quality of care. This is a beginning interdisciplinary graduate course in health care organization and administration. The course deals conceptually and factually with the problems and issues of current health care delivery systems.