This course provides exploration of financial accounting and reporting, financial analysis, managerial and cost accounting, and budgeting in health care. Students will be able to apply financial techniques to the analysis of the health care environment, to improving value in health care services and to organizational decision making.

An examination of how health care delivery systems, community-based organizations, public health agencies, and others work together to create policies and interventions to improve the health outcomes of a population. This focus shifts the economic model from that of a "sick system" to a system of prevention and patient engagement. Topics in this course include rural health, education, risk, stratification of populations, and others, with a focus on the ethical issues and economic impacts of population health perspectives. Restricted to online MBA program students.

This course provides an overview of the structure of the healthcare delivery system and the providers, payors, and suppliers that comprise it. Learners will examine management and planning with the system as well as major health care policy issues.

As part of their academic program, Viterbo University students may choose to participate in a full-time or part-time business-related internship. The goal is to provide students the opportunity to blend academic theory with practice and to explore and gain experience in functional areas they may wish to enter professionally. An internship plan including a timeline, intended outcomes, and assessment requirements must be approved by the student's graduate advisor and arranged with the professor advising the internship. Graded CR/NC.

Health Care Organizational success is dependent on the ability of their leaders to engage in challenging conversations with other leaders and staff on a daily basis. The preferred method of dealing with challenging behaviors and difficult conversations in health care is through avoidance, a very ineffective method. Participants will understand their own preferred method of managing difficult behaviors and conversations, identify their triggers to conflict, and behaviors that escalate and de-escalate emotions during difficult conversations.

A course, on a special topic in the discipline at the post-baccalaureate or master degree level, offered on the basis of need, interest, or time lines. May be repeated for credit. See registrar's office current class schedules Web page for specific semester description.

Individual and independent reading, research, and writing under the guidance of a School of Business faculty member. Refer to the academic policy section for independent study policy. A written learning contract must be on file in the Office of the Registrar by the end of the first week of classes in the semester in which the course is taken. The contract must provide details of the topic, learning objectives, methods to be used, works to be completed, completion dates, grading criteria, and a prospective bibliography.

Experiential Learning: Internship (12 Credits) Non-classroom experiences in the field of business. Placements are generally off-campus, and may be full-or part-time, and with or without pay. Credit for experiences must be sought prior to occurrence, and learning contracts must be submitted before the end of the first week of the semester. A maximum of 15 credits of 287/487 can be used to meet graduation requirements. See the experiential learning: internship section of this catalog for details. Restricted to students with junior standing or higher. May be repeated for credit. Graded CR/NC.

Courses on topics of interest to health care management students offered on the basis of need, interest, or timeliness. Prerequisites as determined by instructor. Restricted to students with junior standing or higher. May be repeated for credit. For specific section description, click to the Section Details in VitNet.