Healthcare Administration, MS​
24-Month Program
Full distance​
The Masters in Health Administration is designed to prepare students seeking to advance their careers and take administrative and leadership roles within the healthcare industry. Students will receive instruction to gain proficiencies in the principles, methods, and procedures of leadership and management in a diverse medical industry. They will gain a broad understanding and appreciation for other elements of the management perspective, such as finance, communications, economics, and accounting. Students who complete this program will understand the policies and procedures of organizational development, monitor financial capital and employees’ performance, and exercise modern leadership dynamics that can help provide the current healthcare employer-employee relationship with a pleasant, rewarding, and successful experience.​
Quick Facts​
- Healthcare data analytics for data-driven decisions​
- Healthcare quality and risk management​
- Innovative leadership for healthcare​
- Law and ethics for healthcare​
- Human resource management​
- Managerial accounting and Finance in Healthcare​
- Strategic marketing
Course Preview
1 - Leading a Multigenerational Workforce
Gain expertise in leveraging generational strengths and traits, analyze strategies for leading diverse teams, and understand the impact of technology in the multigenerational workforce.
2 - Leadership and Management for Diverse Healthcare Systems
Develop essential skills to lead diverse healthcare teams, apply decision-making models, analyze organizational issues impacting healthcare, and advance equity in organizational and community healthcare
3 - Research Methodology
Master the steps and policies for effective organizational research, evaluate scientific methods, identify and overcome research pitfalls, and uphold ethical research processes.
4 - Data Management Analytics in Healthcare
Identify organizational points for data collection, explore data-collecting methods, utilize data for decision-making, analyze data to guide services and predict needs, and inform equipment and treatment needs using patient and client data.
5 - Law and Ethics for Healthcare Organizations
Analyze ethical issues in the US healthcare system, review the path to Affordable Health Insurance, assess patients’ rights, and recognize healthcare organizations’ role in management, labor relations, quality improvement, and equality.
6 - Advanced Organizational Human Resources Management
Explore human resource management, diversity’s role, HR regulations, and leadership in organizational change and employee retention.
7 - Challenges in Community Health Care
Understand factors affecting overall health, implement technology for preventative care, use evidence-based practice strategies, assess community emergency preparedness, and address access to care issues.
8 - Population Healthcare Coordination
Recognize the impact of values on vulnerable populations, prevent unsafe practices, understand population and environmental health, and recognize the healthcare administrator’s role in population-based care initiatives.
9 - Healthcare Economics
Use global healthcare information for policy direction, apply economic theory to predict community responses, evaluate cost-effectiveness, relate economics to public health issues, and predict the impact of global disruptors on healthcare delivery
10 - Managerial Accounting and Decision Making
Learn the manager’s accounting role, forecast business decisions, evaluate managerial budgets, and use cost equations for cost prediction.
11 - Organizational Finance in Healthcare
Examine healthcare financial managers’ objectives, identify financing and delivery methods, compute cost-shifting and cost-cutting measures, evaluate costs, interpret financial ratios, and analyze budgeting stages in corporate planning.
12 - Strategic Marketing Planning and Management
Understand marketing’s role in healthcare, compare marketing strategy elements, analyze marketing research, and implement effective marketing plans.
13 - Operations Management
Describe operations management in healthcare, analyze process flow, locate bottlenecks, and evaluate process efficiency to enhance productivity.
14 - Innovative Solutions in Healthcare Leadership
Examine interdisciplinary collaboration, understand organizational structures, promote cultural competence, and apply quality improvement processes in healthcare leadership.
15 - Healthcare Quality and Risk Management
Identify gaps in healthcare quality, plan approaches to fill gaps, identify organizational risk sources, manage identified risks, and apply risk management approaches and tools.
16 - Healthcare Administration Capstone
Integrate concepts from prior courses, apply implementation concepts for sustainable competitive advantage, and address implementation, evaluation, and risk management in healthcare administration.
Healthcare Leadership and Management, MS​
24-Month Program
Full distance​
The Masters in Healthcare Leadership and Management aims to prepare students with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in executive roles within the healthcare industry. Students will receive instruction to gain proficiencies in the principles of leadership strategies, financial management, data management and analytics, and evidence-based decision-making for effectively leading organizations in healthcare. There will be an emphasis on holding executive and leadership roles in the healthcare industry. Graduates from this program will be well-prepared to take on leadership positions both in and outside the healthcare industry to affect positive organizational outcomes.
Quick Facts​
- Healthcare data analytics for data-driven decisions​
- Innovative leadership for healthcare​
- Managerial Accounting and Finance in Healthcare​
- Project Management​
- Organizational Leadership
Course Preview
1 - Leading a Multigenerational Workforce
Gain expertise in leveraging generational strengths and traits, analyze strategies for leading diverse teams, and understand the impact of technology in the multigenerational workforce.
2 - Leadership and Management for Diverse Healthcare Systems
Develop essential skills to lead diverse healthcare teams, apply decision-making models, analyze organizational issues impacting healthcare, and advance equity in organizational and community healthcare
3 - Research Methodology
Master the steps and policies for effective organizational research, evaluate scientific methods, identify and overcome research pitfalls, and uphold ethical research processes.
4 - Data Management Analytics in Healthcare
Identify organizational points for data collection, explore data-collecting methods, utilize data for decision-making, analyze data to guide services and predict needs, and inform equipment and treatment needs using patient and client data.
5 - Ethical leadership
Deepen your understanding of ethical leadership theories, address ethical challenges, and acquire practical skills for ethical decision-making and conflict resolution.
6 - Advanced Organizational Human Resources Management
Explore human resource management, diversity’s role, HR regulations, and leadership in organizational change and employee retention.
7 - Applied technology for leading hybrid teams
Navigate hybrid teams, select technology for effective communication and collaboration, resolve conflicts in diverse team environments, and ensure cybersecurity and privacy.
8 - Population Healthcare Coordination
Recognize the impact of values on vulnerable populations, prevent unsafe practices, understand population and environmental health, and recognize the healthcare administrator’s role in population-based care initiatives.
9 - Organizational leadership
Understand effective leadership theories, analyze leadership’s role in shaping culture and achieving goals, and evaluate the importance of emotional intelligence and ethical decision-making.
10 - Managerial Accounting and Decision Making
Learn the manager’s accounting role, forecast business decisions, evaluate managerial budgets, and use cost equations for cost prediction.
11 - Corporate Financial Management
Understand financial management’s role, master financial statement analysis, and apply techniques for capital budgeting, investment analysis, and risk management.
12 - Evidence based leadership and decision making
Equips students to critically evaluate evidence, synthesize information, and make informed decisions aligned with organizational goals, covering leadership styles, decision-making, data analysis, research methods, and communication for organizational success.
13 - Operations Management
Describe operations management in healthcare, analyze process flow, locate bottlenecks, and evaluate process efficiency to enhance productivity.
14 - Innovative Solutions in Healthcare Leadership
Examine interdisciplinary collaboration, understand organizational structures, promote cultural competence, and apply quality improvement processes in healthcare leadership.
15 - Project management
Understand project initiation, planning, execution, and closure; create project management plans, estimate costs, manage teams, changes, and risks; and conduct thorough project reviews.
16 - Healthcare Administration Capstone
Integrate concepts from prior courses, apply implementation concepts for sustainable competitive advantage, and address implementation, evaluation, and risk management in healthcare administration.
Associate of Applied Science in Dental Assisting
14-Month Program
(54 Weeks)
The Associate of Applied Sciences in Dental Assisting was designed to meet the demands of a continuously evolving healthcare market. The purpose of the program is to provide students with sufficient theoretical knowledge and practical skills to perform efficiently in an entry-level position as a chairside assistant in a dental office.
This program includes courses that cover the essential components of dental assisting responsibilities such as but not limited to passing instruments and supplies to the dentist, preparing dental charts, appointment scheduling, laboratory procedures, maintenance of patient records, and instructing patients in proper oral hygiene.
By incorporating components of liberal arts and sciences, the student will re-enforce written and verbal communication skills, as well as develop critical thinking skills that are essential in a high-intensity work environment, and develop a humanistic healthcare professional.
School Program
Students acquire proficiency in a range of tasks, including:
- Facilitating Dental Procedures: Students learn to effectively provide instruments and supplies to dentists, ensuring a smooth workflow during dental procedures.
- Laboratory Proficiency: The program hones students’ skills in performing essential laboratory procedures, contributing to accurate diagnostics and treatment planning.
- Patient Education: Students are equipped to educate patients on proper oral hygiene techniques, promoting better dental health practices and empowering patients to take proactive care of their oral well-being.
Associate of Applied Science in Ophthalmology Technician
18-Month Program
(72 Weeks)
The Ophthalmology Technician Program has been designed to prepare a student to assist ophthalmologist in detecting, diagnosing and treating ailments, and diseases of the eye.
The student will become well acquainted with the development and structures of the human eye, the way it functions, internally and externally, and will get familiar with the different ophthalmic diseases regarding etiology, signs and symptoms, and treatment.
There is a strong emphasis of the properties of light and geometric optics, including refraction and reflection, comprehending the principles of vision.
School Program
- Earn career opportunities in the ophthalmology realm
- Understand properties of the eye, vision, and equipment usage
- Hands-on experience through clinical rotations
Associate of Applied Science in Surgical Technology
18-Month Program
(72 Weeks)
The Surgical Technology Program has been designed to train students to work with surgical teams as surgical technologists.
This program covers all foundational competencies required to successfully understand the needs of surgical technologists in the surgical room and the material required for the certification exam.
Begin your career in one of the fastest-growing fields in the area.
The curriculum covers materials that will train students: from surgical room sterilization and preparation, perioperative procedures, and post-operation assistance.
Certification information (must be ABHES approved)Â
ABHES accreditation information:
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Eligible to sit for:
- NBSTSA National Board for Surgical Technology Surgical Assistant
- NCCT National Center for Competency Testing
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School Program
- Sterilization/Asepsis
- Instrumentation
- Microbiology
- Operating Room techniques
- Robotics
- Education Handbook
Bachelor of Science in Health Administration
36-Month Program
(156 Weeks)
This program is designed to prepare students seeking employment in medical management and administrative levels of the healthcare industry.
Students will receive instruction to gain mastery over the principles, methods, and procedures of management in a diverse medical industry, and will gain a broad understanding and appreciation for other elements of the management perspective such as finance, communications, economics, accounting, employee and patient law standards.
Students who complete this program will understand the policies and procedures of organizational development, monitoring financial capital, employees’ performance, and exercise modern leadership dynamics that can provide the current healthcare employer-employee relationship a pleasant, reward and successful experience.
This program will help prepare graduates with the necessary knowledge and skills for employment opportunities in entry-level management positions, such as: medical office managers, supervisors, unit managers, department leads, etc.
School Program
- Eligible to become a Certified Physician Practice Manager (CPPM) through the AAPC
- Eligible to become Lean Six Sigma Certified
- Bachelor’s degree in as little as 156 weeks
- Become a professional in one of the largest and fastest growing industries
Associate of Applied Science in Medical Laboratory Technology
20-Month Program
(78 Weeks)
An Associate Degree in Medical Laboratory Technology prepares individuals for a career in the health care industry as Medical Laboratory Technicians.
These laboratory professionals assist in the coordination of clinical laboratory activities, including timely and cost effective testing of patient samples and lab equipment maintenance.
Students will also learn the integration of lab regulations and compliance, as well as the incorporation of quality management systems in the clinical laboratory.
This program will help prepare graduates with the necessary knowledge and skills for employment opportunities at hospitals, long-term care facilities, public health agencies, outpatient facilities, doctor’s office, private clinical laboratories and many other employment settings related to the medical laboratory field.
School Program
- Microorganisms and diseases
- Clinical Chemistry
- healthcare Ethics
- Anatomy and Physiology
- Hematology
- Body Fluid Analysis
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Human Diseases and Pathophysiology
- Quality Assurance
Associate of Applied Science in Health Administration
15-Month Program
(60 Weeks)
This program is designed to prepare students seeking employment in health administration.
Students will understand the principles and practice of health care regarding administration, management, law, economics, and policy.
Students will gain knowledge in health record maintenance, medical insurance processes, and healthcare classification systems.
Students will also learn management principles towards team building, collaborative decision making, and financial skills.
School Program
- Quality Assessment and Performance
- Health Data Content and Structure
- Healthcare Management
- Healthcare Delivery in the U.S.
- Medical Insurance Forms
- Insurance Policies & Procedures
Associate of Applied Science in Medical Coding and Billing Systems
15-Month Program
(60 Weeks)
An Associates in Applied Science degree in Medical Coding and Billing Systems prepares individuals for a career in the health care industry as coding and billing specialists.
These administrative professionals prepare and submit paperwork necessary for insurance and billing purpose.
Students will gain knowledge in health record maintenance, medical insurance processes, and healthcare classification systems. Students will also learn computer application skills, interpersonal coding, and billing procedures. This program will help prepare graduates with the necessary knowledge and skills for employment opportunities at insurance companies, hospitals, long term care facilities, public health agencies, outpatient facilities, doctor’s offices, and many other employment settings related to the health care administration field.
School Program
- Anatomy and Physiology
- Healthcare Vocabulary
- Medical Law & Ethics
- Human Disease & Pathophysiology
- Medical Insurance Forms
- Coding & Classification Systems
- Electronic Medical Billing
- ICD9 to ICD10 Conversion
Medical Assistant/
Laboratory Assistant
Associate of Applied Science in Medical Assisting
9-Month Program
(36 Weeks)
The Medical Assistant/Laboratory Assistant program is designed to assist students in gaining the necessary skills to be competent in data processing operations, records management, medical billing, medical coding, and certain non-invasive clinical procedures necessary to work in today’s medical environment as a medical assistant.
Program graduates will develop the knowledge and skills in the areas of medical administrative duties (recording vital signs, medical histories, arranging for hospital admission and laboratory services, purchasing supplies, billing, and bookkeeping), certain clinical duties such as preparation of laboratory specimens, disposing of contaminated specimens, sterilizing medical instruments, preparing patients for examination; delivering patient instruction, authorizing drug refills as directed, telephoning prescriptions to the pharmacy. Additionally, successful graduates will be proficient in customer services skills, business correspondence, and computer skills.
Program graduates will be eligible to become a medical assistant, medical coding specialist, or a medical assistant in a doctor’s office or dental office; or a public or private health care facility; or in a clinical laboratory.
12-Month Program
(48 Weeks)
The Associate of Applied Sciences in Medical Assisting (AASMA) was designed to meet the demands of a continuously evolving healthcare market. By intensifying and expanding the training the AASMA Graduate will be competent not only as a Medical Assistant, but also in the areas of Phlebotomy, Electrocardiography, and advanced Patient Care.
The medical assistant Program also provides the necessary skills to be competent in administrative and clinical operations, medical coding and billing, as well as in clinical and medical laboratory skills.
By incorporating components of liberal arts and sciences, the student will re-enforce written and verbal communication skills, as well as develop critical thinking skills that are essential in a high-intensity work environment, and develop a humanistic healthcare professional.
School Program
- Phlebotomy
- Hematology / Blood Chemistry
- Urinalysis / Microbiology
- Medication
- IV Infusion Basic Set-Ups
- Electrocardiograms
- Anthropomedics
- H.I.P.A.A./OSHA
- Basic Outpatient Procedures
