Vision

St. Martinus University's MBA Health Management program will be nationally recognized as a leader in education, service, scholarship, and practice.

Mission

The mission of St. Martinus University's MBA Health Management Program is to prepare doctors of physical therapy who are advocates for the health and wellness of individuals and society, and who are dedicated to patient/client-centered clinical excellence, lifelong professional development, and scholarly activities.

Core Values

We endorse and promote the core values of the College and the core values of professionalism in MBA Health Management. These values include accountability, altruism, collaboration, compassion and caring, duty, excellence, inclusion, integrity, and social responsibility.

Goals:

The aim of this qualification is to provide learners with an understanding of management within the health and social care sector. Learners will develop practical skills for a management career through a range of specialized units that include how to research and implement improvement for their employer and within the sector.

It is composed of the following notable features:

• Understand theories of leadership utilized in health and social care settings.
• Understand performance management in health and social care.
• Understand the role of financial information in managing health and social care organisations.
• Understand strategic and business plans for healthcare organizations based on environmental analysis.
• Understand strategies for achieving quality in health and social care services
• Understand research approaches in health and social care contexts.

Competency Model

The MBA Program uses a Competency Model to guide the curriculum, preparing students for professional healthcare management careers. The model has been developed with input from healthcare managers, executives, practitioners and alums. By achieving these competencies throughout the program, students are well-prepared for the challenges of working in the healthcare industry.

Critical Thinking

• Analytical abilities: Defining the problem, gathering and analyzing appropriate data.
• Decision making skills: Selecting actions based on evidence and analysis.
• Plan, monitor, and control implementation.

Written and Verbal Communication

• Communicate effectively verbally.
• Communicate effectively in written form.

Ethics and Social Responsibility

• Become ethically competent decision makers.
• Value social responsibility for organizations and individuals.

Disciplinary Excellence

• Academic proficiency in the application of management. principles to healthcare problems and settings.
• Academic proficiency in Marketing - research, analysis, planning & implementation.
• Academic proficiency in Management - managing people and teams, operations, efficient use of resources.
• Academic proficiency in Finance - financing strategies, instruments, and markets.
• Academic proficiency in Health Economics - microeconomic principles as applied to the healthcare sector.
• Academic proficiency in Accounting - principles and managerial applications.
• Academic proficiency in Healthcare Management and Strategy - strategic thinking & planning.

Leadership

• A willingness and ability to assume leadership roles.

Teamwork

• The ability to work effectively in groups.
• The ability to synergistically accomplish common goals.

Course Duration: 12-18 months

Teaching Methods:

• Blended Learning,
• Live Webinars,
• Practical Demonstration

Assessment:

• Research Based Assignments with Practical Projects Curriculum (16 courses, 48 credits)

Fourteen Required Courses:

• Introduction to Health Systems
• Health Systems Management
• Health Operations
• Healthcare Leadership Proseminar*
• Healthcare Marketing
• Statistical Methods for Data Analytics
• Financial and Managerial Accounting for Decision Making
• Healthcare Finance
• Health Economics
• Health Informatics
• Health Policy Dynamics
• Legal Aspects of Healthcare
• Managerial Epidemiology
• Strategic Issues for Healthcare Organizations (Health Capstone)*

Two Elective Courses

Students may take select non-equivalent courses offered in one of the following programs: Online MBA, MS in Healthcare Data Analytics and courses from the MS in Bioethics program.