September 2021 Graduate Catalog 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
September 2021 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

BU 650 - Healthcare Administration

This course explores the major components and organizational interrelationships in the U.S. healthcare delivery system across the continuum of care. Topics include the history of the delivery system, delivery institutions and models, policy implementation, and payment mechanisms. Variables of access, cost, and quality are introduced. Application of these topics in the areas of healthcare reform, social and cultural changes that affect the system, and alternative healthcare allow students to analyze critically these evolving healthcare issues. Semester Credit Hours: 3.00 Contact Hours: 45/0/0/45 Prerequisite: BU 600 - Leadership and Organizational Behavior . Corequisite: None.