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The Health Care Administration Graduate Program mission is to prepare students for executive leadership and management in the healthcare field. Our comprehensive program employs current professional knowledge, fosters innovations and ethical practices, promotes research, and embraces inclusivity.

Our vision is to be a premier Health Care Administration Graduate Program cultivating leaders to transform healthcare systems.

• Collaboration - continue to build relationships across disciplines and the communities we serve. Collaboration reminds us we won't thrive without recognizing one another's strengths. Collaboration promotes communication that is open, honest, and non-judgmental to support students and faculty to reach their full potential and evolve together.
• Integrity - includes open and truthful communication, fair and consistent treatment of others, while staying committed to our word and values.
• Compassion - teaching from the heart. Embracing student diversity. Understanding various student needs as a result of their different backgrounds and situations. Exhibiting kindness. Guide students to explore. Empathy for peers and colleagues, especially in difficult times.
• Leadership - empower students and faculty to be successful leaders in a diverse healthcare community.
• Sustainability - strive for Department infrastructure that meets the needs of present and future students. Teaching and research from a base of industry knowledge and advancement that helps us maintain a high-value workforce pipeline of healthcare professionals.
• Trust - nurture Department relationships that are consistent, empathetic, reliable, and truthful. We build trust through the following behaviors as examples: Admitting weakness, being honest, valuing each other's experience and expertise, keeping one's word, following through, accountability, being a team player, and having each other's backs.
• Professionalism - build, demonstrate, and acknowledge professionalism (being accountable, reliable, setting high standards of conduct, teamwork, respect for others) and ethical practices in our teaching, research and services. Demonstrating we care about our students' learning experience, conducting and disseminating high-quality research, and preparing our students as competitive candidates in the job market.
• Innovation - support, foster, and reward creative thinking, cutting-edge ideas, problem-solving, and advancement in our teaching, research, and services toward improvement of health care delivery. 

Communication and Relationship Management

• Relationship Management
• Communication Skills
• Facilitation and Negotiation

Leadership

• Leadership Skills and Behavior
• Organizational Climate and Culture
• Communicating Vision
• Managing change

Professionalism

• Personal and Professional Accountability
• Professional development and lifelong learning
• Contributions to the community and profession

Knowledge of the Healthcare Environment

• Healthcare systems and organizations
• Healthcare personnel
• The Patient’s perspective
• The Community and the environment

Business Skills and Knowledge

• General management
• Financial management
• Human resource management
• Organizational dynamics and governance
• Strategic planning and marketing
• Information Management
• Risk management
• Quality improvement

Upon completion of the Masters in Health Care Administration, students will:

1. Communication and Relationship Management: Acquire the ability to communicate clearly and concisely with internal and external customers, establish and maintain relationships, and facilitate constructive interactions with individuals and groups.

2. Leadership: Develop the ability to inspire individual and organizational excellence, create a shared vision and successfully manage change to attain the organization’s strategic ends and successful performance.

3. Professionalism: Align personal and organizational conduct with ethical and professional standards that include a responsibility to the patient and community, a service orientation, and a commitment to lifelong learning and improvement.

4. Knowledge of the Healthcare Environment: Demonstrate understanding of the healthcare system and the environment in which healthcare managers and providers function.

5. Business Skills and Knowledge: Apply business principles—including General Management, Financial Management, Human Resource Management, Organizational Dynamics and Governance, Strategic Planning and Marketing, Information Management, Risk Management, Quality Improvement, and Patient Safety—to the healthcare environment.