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Long-Term Care Administration
Graduate CertificateThese program requirements are for students who enroll in the 2022-2023 academic year.
The long-term care administration certificate program at University of Maryland Global Campus prepares you for administrative and managerial positions in various long-term care settings. The program provides an in-depth examination of the U.S. healthcare delivery system throughout the continuum of care. In this program, you’ll gain the tools and skills necessary to be successful in the long-term care industry by addressing real-world scenarios and situations. The program helps prepare you for immediate competitive improvement on the employment market as well as for the long-term care administrator examination.
Program Highlights
- Gain skills: Gain the tools and skills necessary to be successful in the long-term care industry.
- Advance your knowledge: Learn how healthcare administrators can use IT to maximize organizational performance.
- Gain insights: Explore the operational issues unique to the dynamic and highly regulated realm of healthcare.
- Learn the fundamentals: Study the principles of management as a foundation for the administration of healthcare products.
- Study U.S. trends: Compare the healthcare system in the United States with systems in other countries.
- Explore the field: Study the long-term care service delivery system including residential settings and hospice care.
Required Courses
Initial Requirement
- (0 Credits, UCSP 615)
(to be taken within the first 6 credits of study)
The UCSP 615 requirement may be waived if you previously earned a graduate degree from a regionally accredited institution. For more information, contact your academic advisor.
Core Courses
- (3 Credits, HCAD 600)
- (3 Credits, HCAD 610)
- (3 Credits, HCAD 620)
- (3 Credits, HCAD 625)
- (3 Credits, HCAD 635)
Career Preparation
This program is designed to help you prepare for administrative and managerial positions in various long-term care settings.
Experience Recommended for Success in the Program
No previous experience is needed.
Total Program Credits
15
Transfer Credits
Up to 6
Format
- All courses available online
- Select hybrid courses available
Tuition Per Credit
- $ per credit hour
(Europe & Downrange)
See our Tuition Rates page for details.
Admission Requirements
This program follows standard UMGC admission requirements.
Military-Specific Details
This program does not have military restrictions. It is available to all eligible civilian and military-affiliated students.
State-Specific Details
This program does not have state-specific restrictions.
Health Information Management & Data Analytics
Undergraduate CertificateThese program requirements are for students who enroll in the 2022-2023 academic year.
The certificate program in health information management and data analytics at University of Maryland Global Campus is designed to help equip you with knowledge of the U.S. healthcare system and the skills needed for healthcare organizational management. In this program, you’ll learn methods of health information management and technologies for collecting, storing, retrieving, and processing healthcare data. In addition, you’ll learn how to analyze, interpret, and present that data using appropriate statistical tools and techniques for healthcare decision making. You’ll apply managerial epidemiology tools and evidence in decision making and acquire skills in planning and resolving diverse healthcare issues.
Program Highlights
- Stay on the cutting edge: Study the latest technologies for collecting, storing, retrieving, and processing healthcare data.
- Study the landscape: Learn about healthcare organizations in the United States and emerging issues in healthcare.
- Apply knowledge: Apply knowledge of key management concepts to the management of health services organizations.
- Influence decisions: Apply data-based insights to healthcare decision-making.
- Explore the fundamentals: Study research methods, and the process of data identification and analysis in the healthcare field.
- Advance your skills: Organize, summarize, interpret, and present data using graphical and tabular representations.
Required Courses
- (3 Credits, HMGT 300)
- (3 Credits, IFSM 305)
- (3 Credits, STAT 200)
- (3 Credits, HMGT 307)
- (3 Credits, HMGT 320)
- (3 Credits, HMGT 400)
Career Preparation
This program is designed to help you learn how to process and analyze healthcare data and apply those insights to healthcare decision-making.
Experience Recommended for Success in the Program
No previous experience is needed.
Total Program Credits
18
Transfer Credits
Up to 9
Format
- All courses available online
- Select hybrid courses available
Tuition Per Credit
- $ per credit hour
(Europe & Downrange)
See our Tuition Rates page for details.
Admission Requirements
In order to sign up for (3 Credits, HMGT 300), you will need to successfully complete one of the following prerequisite courses beforehand:
- (3 Credits, WRTG 112)
- WRTG 101
Military-Specific Details
This program does not have military restrictions. It is available to all eligible civilian and military-affiliated students.
State-Specific Details
This program does not have state-specific restrictions.
Healthcare Administration
Master of ScienceThese program requirements are for students who enroll in the 2022-2023 academic year.
Healthcare administrators manage complex organizations that serve diverse individual and community needs. With an online master’s degree in healthcare administration from University of Maryland Global Campus, you’ll gain the expert knowledge, management skills, and strong professional development you need to seize career opportunities and maximize your potential in this era of rapid healthcare transformation.
Program Highlights
- Apply strong financial management skills, including techniques for responding to uncompensated care, cost increases, increased competition, and increased regulation
- Employ statistical tools to analyze health data and make effective business decisions
- Demonstrate knowledge of different models in healthcare administration, including contemporary theories, critical perspectives, and best practices for performance excellence in a highly competitive healthcare environment
- Use decision-making skills for institutional management, organizational development, and intercultural work environments
- Strategically plan, implement, and evaluate information systems
- Evaluate regulatory constraints, provider liability, patient rights, employment law and labor relations, and administrative law for healthcare organizations
- Analyze public health issues and their impact on healthcare organizations
- Solve ongoing problems in healthcare financing and delivery
- Develop a comprehensive business plan for a healthcare product, service, or organization
Required Courses
Initial Requirement
- (0 Credits, UCSP 615)
(to be taken within the first 6 credits of study)
The UCSP 615 requirement may be waived if you previously earned a graduate degree from a regionally accredited institution. For more information, contact your academic advisor.
Core Courses
Management Foundation Courses
- (3 Credits, MGMT 615)
- (3 Credits, MGMT 650)
Healthcare Administration Courses
- (3 Credits, HCAD 600)
- (3 Credits, HCAD 610)
- (3 Credits, HCAD 620)
- (3 Credits, HCAD 625)
- (3 Credits, HCAD 630)
- (3 Credits, HCAD 635)
- (3 Credits, HCAD 640)
- (3 Credits, HCAD 645)
- (3 Credits, HCAD 650)
- (3 Credits, HCAD 660)
- (3 Credits, HCAD 665)
Capstone Course
- HCAD 670
Career Preparation
This program is designed to help prepare midcareer healthcare professionals for a leadership role in a dynamic sector that touches every life. Career opportunities are in areas that include department management, health systems analysis, legislative work, and executive leadership in the private sector, professional societies, nonprofit organizations, military, and in all levels of government.
Experience Recommended for Success in the Program
If you lack a recent background in finance or accounting, you should take UCSP 620 before (3 Credits, HCAD 640). If you lack a recent background in statistics, you should take UCSP 630 before (3 Credits, MGMT 650). Taking UCSP 605 is recommended to help improve writing skills.
Total Program Credits
41
Transfer Credits
Up to 6
Format
- All courses are available online
- Select on-site and hybrid courses available
Tuition Per Credit
- $350 per credit hour
(Europe & Downrange)
See our Tuition Rates page for details.
Admission Requirements
This program follows standard UMGC admission requirements.
Military-Specific Details
This program does not have military restrictions. It is available to all eligible civilian and military-affiliated students.
State-Specific Details
This program does not have state-specific restrictions.