Health Care Management (B.S.)

The Health Care Management major is an online adult degree completion program that provides students with an opportunity to enrich their knowledge and skills in the fast-growing field of health care management. It provides specific courses in health care topics such as information management, policy, health care delivery, and accounting and budgeting.

Program Mission

The goal of the B.S. in Health Care Management is to provide mid-career adult learners with a degree completion program that will advance their professional growth and will enable them to serve society and their communities as effective health care leaders.

Transfer Credits

Students must transfer a minimum of 64 credit hours. A maximum of 90 credit hours may be transferred from a community college. At least 30 credit hours must be taken at USF, including 15 hours of upper division coursework, and 30 of the last 36 hours must be earned at USF. A student must complete a minimum total of 120 credit hours to graduate (including transfer credit and USF credit).

Prior Learning Assessment

Many adults have experienced college-level learning outside the traditional classroom. The Prior Learning Assessment Program is a portfolio process in which the student documents all learning through work and life experiences to receive college credit for learning that is equivalent to courses offered at the University of St. Francis. Up to 33 credit hours of college credit may be awarded through the Prior Learning Assessment Program (including Military, CLEP and DANTES credits which can also be earned).

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
General Education courses
BSAD 214	Economics and Stewardship	3
ENGL 210	Writing for Professionals	3
ENVS 210	Environmental Science and Social Implications	3
GENS 201	Research and Decision Making	3
GENS 220	Understanding Literature and the Arts	3
HIST 210	Founders of the Modern World	3
THEO 206	Christianity in the Modern World *	3
*Must be taken at USF
Required major courses
HCLD 336	Ethics in Health Care	3
or HSAD 650	Health Care Ethics and Decision Making
HCLD 342	Health Care Delivery	3
HCLD 345	Health Information Management	3
or HSAD 623	Health Information and Analytics
HCLD 346	Health Care Accounting and Budgeting	3
HCLD 347	Health Law, Regulation and Policy	3
or HSAD 637	Health Care Law and Compliance
HCLD 407	Medical Sociology	3
or HSAD 607	Medical Sociology
Electives
(if necessary to meet the 120 credit hours required for graduation) Additional hours may be required depending on credit hours of transfer credit granted toward the degree
Select from the following:
HCLD 310	Management in Health Care Organization (3)
HCLD 403	Organizational and Human Resource Management (3)
or HSAD 603	Management and Human Resources of Health Care Organizations (3-4)
MGMT 303	Organization Development (3)
MGMT 333	Team Building and Development (3)
MGMT 351	Managerial Communications (3)
MGMT 352	Training and Development (3)
MGMT 353	Performance Improvement (3)
MGMT 362	Supervisory Management (3)
MGMT 364	Operations Management (3)
or MBAD 658	Operations Management (3)
MGMT 366	Business, Society, and Environment (3)
PUBH 310	Public Health (3)
PUBH 312	Global Health (3)
PUBH 314	Epidemiology (3)
Total Hours		39

Students work with their advisors in selecting additional elective credits to fulfill the 120 credit hours required for graduation.