HCAI 5353 Financial Management for Health Care Administration Practical and theoretical aspects of the decision-making process in the financial management of health care facilities and systems. This course will analyze managerial leadership models and the exercise of power in the health care setting. These managerial concepts will be assessed for their effectiveness in guiding managerial behavior in professional-dominated organizations and in assisting health care managers in carrying out essential tasks dealing with conflict in organizations and effecting organizational change. This integrative seminar focuses on the management of health care organizations from a strategic perspective. The various tenets of strategic management will be explored and then applied to various health care organizations.
Special emphasis is placed on organization responses to new trends and changing circumstances.
Students will be expected to draw on skills and knowledge introduced earlier in the curriculum. Efforts will be made to include the viewpoints of health care practitioners. This course is designed to provide knowledge and skills pertaining to the function of strategic planning, marketing, and business plans in the health care setting. These will be applied to the line or staff manager in the health care setting whose responsibilities center upon management functions other than an assignment as a planning or marketing specialist.