BHP 402

Health Communication

Name: Health Communication

Course Number: BHP 402

Credit(s): 3

Course Description

This course examines the principles and practices that guide the management of healthcare organizations in a changing service environment. Through this course, students study how healthcare administrators respond to pressures involving cost, quality, healthcare reform, organizational performance, and stakeholder expectations while managing limited resources. Students also explore leadership, strategic management, organizational structure, human resources, communication, change, quality improvement, finance, marketing, ethics, and law as major areas of healthcare administration. The course emphasizes the administrative knowledge and managerial judgment required to improve organizational performance and support effective healthcare delivery. (Formerly BHP 402 Health Communications)

Learning Outcomes:

Explain the core functions of health care administration, particularly within a changing health care delivery environment.
Understand how organizational structure and leadership impact the performance of health care organizations.
Critically assess different approaches in managing the health care workforce and organizational resources to ensure quality of care.
Discuss and apply health care management principles to administrative decisions involving organizational change, finance, ethics, and law.