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Health Care Management
Every career in the world involves designing, managing, or providing a product, service, or experience, and health care is no exception. In a health care organization, internal and external operations go far beyond only the provision of quality care. Effective managers ensure those organizations can run, can grow, and can best serve the population that needs that care. A foundation in business principles and tools is essential to successfully serving your clients, customers, or patients.
Management has become one of the most popular degrees in the United States. And for good reason. A large majority of our economy is based on the design and delivery of services. The people and processes behind those services need to be optimized and managed. As part of the service industry, health care is one of the largest and fastest growing fields of study and work.
Programs Offered
Health Care Management
Bachelor of Science
Quick Facts
Level
Undergraduate
Location
La Sierra Campus
Duration
72 Units
Accreditation
WASC**
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Description:
The B.S. in Business with a concentration in Health Care Management is designed for students who wish to prepare to serve as leaders in healthcare organizations.
Managing a healthcare organization doesn't have to be brain surgery. And you don't have to be a physician to do it. A degree in Management can lead to a rewarding career in any field. From a physician opening a private practice to a scientist leading a research team, to a foreman on a construction site, all benefit solid foundation in business and management education.
Employers today want employees not only competent in their field but who can communicate effectively, work in and lead teams, and observe and analyze a situation to quickly identify the best solution. You won’t find this experience in just any degree program.
Management for Health Care Professionals
Bachelor of Science
Quick Facts
Level
Undergraduate
Location
La Sierra Campus
Duration
117 Units
Accreditation
WASC
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Description:
The B.S. in Business with a concentration in Management for Health Care Professionals is designed for the student who wishes to combine the study of business with preparation for admission to post-baccalaureate study in one of the health professions. While incorporating core requirements for admission to medical and dental school, it also features a lean array of business courses designed to equip students to understand the business environment within which a private professional practice operates and the business vocabulary and issues they will need to comprehend to navigate the increasingly complex world of managed health care.
Providing health care requires proper logistics, policies, training for staff, marketing, education for patients, and so much more. By studying management, you will be best prepared to thrive in today's healthcare environment.
Population growth, longer lifespans, and healthcare reform have made healthcare careers among the fastest-growing in the United States. La Sierra University offers a dynamic management degree for students who wish to combine the study of business with completion of core requirements for medical school, dental school, or another post-baccalaureate study in health-related professions.
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Health Care Management
Master of Business Administration
Quick Facts
Level
Graduate
Location
La Sierra Campus
Duration
48 Units
Accreditation
WASC**
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Description:
The MBA program is designed to educate leaders who will simultaneously create value and make a difference. La Sierra trains students motivated by a commitment to integrity, compassion, and social justice who will use their skills in nongovernmental organizations, corporations, government agencies, church institutions, or community organizations as social entrepreneurs: people who expand economic opportunity and grow wealth in underdeveloped communities by promoting the creation of innovative enterprises that in turn make tangible, positive social change happen. While the School equips students with business skills they can use in any morally appropriate business environment, it concentrates its educational efforts on training them to be social entrepreneurs. The MBA program builds on La Sierra’s distinctive strengths: a multicultural student body, opportunities for interdepartmental and interinstitutional cooperation, special resources in the areas of social entrepreneurship and ethics, and links with an international church community that is serious about cross-cultural understanding and global service.
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| MGMT695C | Topics: Strategic PLanning in Health Care | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| MGMT695QM | Topics: Quality Management in Health Care | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Career Outlook
28% Job Market Growth
$110,680 Median Salary
The median annual wage for medical and health services managers was $110,680 in May 2023. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $67,900, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $216,750.
In May 2023, the median annual wages for medical and health services managers in the top industries in which they worked were as follows:
- Hospitals; state, local, and private $128,740
- Government $125,590
- Outpatient care centers $104,710
- Offices of physicians $102,360
- Nursing and residential care facilities $97,490
Program Stats
Our Alumni Work in these Occupations
- Medical and Health Services Managers4
- C-Suite Executives2
- Social and Human Service Specialists2
- Fast Food and Counter Workers1
- Human Resources Managers1
- Medical Scientists1
- Project Management and Operations Specialists1
Our Alumni Work Here
- Adventist Health8
- Arrowhead Orthopaedics2
- Loma Linda University2
- Cancer Center of Hawaii LLC1
- Hawaii Pacific Neuroscience, LLC1
- Hoag Hospital1
- Kaiser Permanente1
Student Learning Outcomes
Demonstrate understanding of key issues and the acquisition of key skills related to:
- accounting
- business ethics
- finance
- management
- marketing
- quantitative business tools
- the economic environment of business
- the international environment of business
- the legal environment of business
- the social environment of business
Integrate understandings of and skills related to functional business areas and relevant environmental contexts in the course of strategic business decision making.
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Partial information in this page was retrieved from Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Medical and Health Services Managers, at https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/medical-and-health-services-managers.htm (visited April 17, 2024).
