Innovation & Leadership in Healthcare Graduate Certificate
The Innovation and Leadership in Healthcare graduate certificate builds a foundation for students to analyze, implement, and lead innovative healthcare in a strategic manner. Students will learn how to advocate for care, analyze quality indicators, utilize data to drive decisions, and apply financial management as emerging healthcare leaders. Credits earned can be applied toward the Master of Healthcare Administration for students who would like to earn a master’s degree. The Innovation and Leadership in Healthcare graduate certificate is offered entirely online with no face-to-face options available.
Innovation & Leadership in Healthcare Graduate Certificate Program Delivery Mode
Online Exclusive: This graduate certificate must be completed entirely online; no face-to-face options available.
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the graduate certificate program, graduates are expected to:
- Innovation and Leadership in Healthcare C1: Analyze current/emerging patient care, informatics, and communication technologies to deliver and enhance healthcare outcomes.
- Innovation and Leadership in Healthcare C2: Apply safety and quality principles, methods, performance measures, and standards to transparently improve healthcare outcomes across the continuum of care.
- Innovation and Leadership in Healthcare C3: Utilize a systems approach as an organizational leader to effectively plan resource use, promote evidence–based practice to improve systems, and assure safe, high quality healthcare outcomes.
- Innovation and Leadership in Healthcare C4: Evaluate, advocate for, and support organizational/governmental policy to improve health care delivery and population health outcomes.
- Innovation and Leadership in Healthcare C5: Collaborate as leader/member of interprofessional teams to optimize care management, coordination, and administrative practices.
Innovation and Leadership in Healthcare Graduate Certificate Requirements and Suggested Course Sequencing
Total Number of Credits - 15
Summer
- MHA 650 - Organizational Strategy and Systems Leadership (3)
Fall
- MHA 628 - Healthcare Delivery Systems, Policy, and Reimbursement (3)
- MHA 605 - Healthcare Quality, Safety & Regulatory Management (3)
Spring
- MHA 638 - Health Information Systems (3)
- MHA 619 - Applied Healthcare Financial Management (3)
*These requirements are not official. Official certificate requirements will be available in the 2024-2025 academic catalog in July 2024.