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Master of Business Administration: Healthcare Administration Concentration

Healthcare administration is a fast-growing management field that focuses on planning, directing, and coordinating the delivery of high-quality patient care services. A Redlands MBA provides you with the skills, knowledge, and opportunities for career enhancement that you need to succeed. 

Degrees Offered

Master of Business Administration

Program Types

Graduate

Mode of Study

Hybrid

What is a Master of Business Administration: Healthcare Administration Concentration degree?

Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a Healthcare Administration Concentration is a graduate program that combines core business management principles with specialized knowledge of the healthcare industry. This degree is designed to prepare students for leadership and administrative roles within healthcare organizations, such as hospitals, clinics, pharmaceutical companies, insurance firms, and other healthcare-related entities.

Why earn the Master of Business Administration: Healthcare Administration Concentration at Redlands? 

The Redlands MBA Healthcare Administration Concentration (MBA HCA) program is a unique collaboration with Loma Linda University. Through a consortium agreement with the Loma Linda University School of Public Health, School of Business & Society students enroll in classes offered by Loma Linda University (LLU), to complete the healthcare administration portion of the MBA HCA. This program partnership combines a university known for its MBA programs, with a renowned university known for healthcare education.

Required coursework

In addition to the core and foundational MBA coursework, students completing the MBA with a concentration in Healthcare Administration will need to complete the following elective courses:

Examines the legal and judicial processes as they relate to health care. Considers criminal and civil law. Emphasizes principles of contract law. We will examine health care as a highly regulated industry, providing students with an understanding of the vast range of legal issues facing health care practitioners and administrators. Particular attention will be given to topics in regulatory compliance, medical malpractice, health care contracting, and employment law.

This course reviews current trends in health care financing; integrated delivery systems; managed care, as well as some focus on health care operations, including: billing, coding, pricing, utilization review, case management, and systems. Reviews and discusses current events and research relating to the health care system structure throughout the world and relative to U.S. health care policy.

This course uses quantitative methods to analyze and improve business processes within an organization. Regression analysis, simulation, decision analysis, capacity planning, inventory models, linear programming, scheduling, and benefit cost analysis.

Focuses on quality systems that include developing clear mission or vision, setting measurable strategic quality goals, deploying goals for action by identifying specific activities to be done, and controlling results. Analysis of quality process in health care historically, with emphasis on key strategies for success.

An overview of financial management tools used in analyzing and developing strategies for making business decisions. Topics include time value of money, bond and stock valuation, risk and return, capital budgeting, capital structure and dividend policy, working capital management, options, and their applications in corporate finance. This course may be substituted by an international program with INTB 670. 
Prerequisite: BUAN 600. Substitution: BUAD 660.

Integrating prior coursework within the context of strategy formulation and implementation, student teams conduct a “live” consulting engagement within the Healthcare field. Students develop the parameters of the engagement and apply appropriate theoretical knowledge in a practical setting to prepare and present a project report.

Graduate application deadlines
Upcoming
Spring 2025, Summer 2025, Fall 2025. Students are encouraged to submit their application by the priority application date in order to expedite processing and ensure a smooth enrollment experience.
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