Introduction to Management of Healthcare Organizations

What Will You Learn?

• Key Principles of Management: Understand the fundamental principles of management and how they apply to healthcare organizations.
• Healthcare Environment: Discuss the current healthcare environment and the challenges faced by health services organizations.
• Core Functions of Healthcare Management: Learn about strategy, marketing, controlling, and organizational design within healthcare management.
• Leadership vs. Management: Clarify the distinctions between leadership and management and their respective roles in healthcare settings.
• Emotional Intelligence: Appreciate the value of applying emotional intelligence principles to professional success in healthcare management.
• Interrelationships in Healthcare Organizations: Break down and describe the interrelationships between the fundamental departments of health services organizations and their contribution to the organizational mission.
• Financial Performance: Assess multiple dimensions of financial performance to measure and improve the financial viability of healthcare provider organizations.
• Laws and Regulations: Interpret, monitor, and comply with laws and regulations that protect health practitioners, organizations, and the public.
• Health Equity: Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities, and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community, and societal levels.
• Budget and Resource Management: Explain basic principles and tools of budget and resource management.