Location: Online
Start Term: Fall, Spring
Format: Part-Time
Are you are an experienced healthcare leader who is looking to expand your skills and ability to succeed in complex healthcare environments? This flexible, online program strengthens the financial and analytical foundations of healthcare leaders, preparing them to tackle uncertainty and complicated issues in healthcare administration. Students identify, evaluate, and apply evidence to establish, implement, and measure solutions for application in real-world settings. In the Evidence-Based Capstone series, you'll develop the methods and skills necessary to address and solve practice-based problems and gain the experience required to advance your professional practice.
Curriculum
This innovative 54-credit program is designed to meet the needs of current healthcare professionals and consists of coursework in five distinct areas of study: Healthcare Systems and Environment, Healthcare Leadership, Health Systems Operations and Data Analytics, Healthcare Finance, and the Doctoral Research Core. The curriculum is developed for interdisciplinary health professionals to prepare them to work in clinical settings, and hospital and healthcare administration. Students will synthesize and apply concepts throughout the curriculum that are derived from the professional competencies identified by the American College of Healthcare Executives and Healthcare Leadership Alliance. The program is fully online with no on-campus residencies.
Evidence-Based Capstone
The program culminates with an Evidence-Based Healthcare Project developed in a structured environment. The capstone offers students the opportunity to acquire skills and knowledge to advocate for best practices and promotes the translation and utilization of existing evidence in their practice.
Program Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the DHA program, graduates will be able to:
- Demonstrate critical thinking and critical analyses through the identification, assessment, and translation of evidence to solutions that address the complex practice-based problems of healthcare;
- Advance professional practice in healthcare through the collection and collation of available data, synthesis of evidence, and demonstration of support for complex decision-making in the evolving healthcare environment;
- Model collaboration, communication and motivational approaches that lead teams and colleagues to perform at the highest levels and achieve shared goals;
- Integrate the principles of quality improvement in leading, innovating, and developing solutions to improve the delivery of healthcare;
- Practice interdisciplinary and interprofessional leadership in pursuit of sustainable change in healthcare delivery and health services organizations;
- Incorporate current technology in developing solutions to healthcare administration and leadership challenges, while maintaining professional ethics and standards;
- Demonstrate knowledge of healthcare finance, accounting, and general business principles in addressing the challenges of healthcare.