Health Care Management MS at Johns Hopkins University

This program is designed to prepare health professionals who can lead organizational efforts to improve and monitor quality metrics, improve safety for both patients and staff, and manage risks in a dynamic healthcare environment. Graduates of this program will be prepared to lead teams in a wide variety of quality and risk management initiatives including:

• Aligning the patient safety, risk, and quality functions within the organization
• Ensuring that the patient safety, risk, and quality activities are aligned with the strategic goals of the organization
• Assessing current activities in patient safety, risk, and quality to clarify responsibilities and reduce duplication of effort
• Establishing a structure that ensures that patient care activities are addressed in a coordinated manner involving the patient safety, risk, and quality functions
• Assembling a team to ensure that the structure for patient safety, risk, and quality activities maximizes legal protections while allowing for the flow of information across all functions
• Coordinating process changes, data collection, data analysis, monitoring, and evaluation
• Evaluating the roles of patient safety, risk, and quality as the organization's needs change

The Master of Health Administration program consists of 10 core courses, one on-site residency, and two elective courses, for a total of 46.0 credits. All courses, except for the residency, will be conducted online through Drexel University Online. The residency, based at Drexel University's Center City campus, is designed to provide students with a full master's level collaborative experience with on-campus and/or community activities, and the experience of working directly with health care or public health service organizations to improve the planning, delivery and evaluation of these services. Students will be prepared for leadership roles in health-related businesses or organizations.

The program is designed for experienced healthcare professionals seeking to explore the three areas of health leadership - transformation, execution, and people. The program's curriculum is grounded in the business of healthcare with every class focusing on real-life application to some aspect of the healthcare industry. The curriculum is led by experienced on-campus faculty and addresses three core areas:

• Business of Health Management
• Health Methodologies
• Healthcare Policy and Health System

Students collaborate to produce an Applied Management Project which will be assigned in groups as a culminating project for the program. In this project, students will apply management tools and/or research tools to address particular administrative challenges, assuring that students think at an organizational level and use particular strategies to respond to change.

In addition to the content of the Applied Management Project, self-confidence and self-development are integrated in the management courses and the on-campus portion of the program, which encourages self-reflection, application of theoretical perspectives, and synthesis of data and management tools. In the online portion of the course, students engage in threaded discussions with classmates about their completed projects.

This curriculum is designed to help students to achieve their goals on a timeline that fits their lifestyle and allows a student to graduate in 18 months up to three years. Students also have the option to enter during the fall or spring term.

The Master of Health Administration program prepares students for management and leadership positions dedicated to improving health and health service delivery across all sectors. The program emphasizes innovation and strategic problem-solving by applying analytical, technical, and management skills required to improve the quality, cost-effectiveness, and integration of healthcare organizations and systems. The interdisciplinary curriculum brings students together with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals creating a collaborative learning environment. The accelerated program includes one year of academic coursework followed by an 11-month compensated administrative residency with a choice of healthcare delivery systems or consulting partners. These residencies are only available to U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents.