The Health Care Management Certificate provides a core of critical health care management skills. Calls for health care reform, changing demographics, technological advances, and rising health care costs require professionals with a better understanding of managerial and technological advances that may help improve the quality of the health care system. This certificate is appropriate for private and public sector employees as well as students who may wish to pursue careers in the expanding field of health care.
Curriculum
Learning Foundations Rdg/Egl Requirements
- All students must read English at an acceptable level in order to begin college-level courses. The college assesses two levels of reading proficiency as shown below. Both must be satisfied in order to enroll in college-level classes.
- Meet a basic reading standard by placement exam score by taking DVR-0051 or ESL-0105, or by exemption due to prior college coursework.
- Meet college-level reading standards by placement exam score, by taking DVR-0061 DVR-0071 or ESL-0106, or by exemption as a result of prior college coursework.
- The college assesses English writing proficiency at three levels as a prerequisite to enrollment in EGL-1010, the first college-level writing course. Those three levels are outlined below.
- Meet the minimum English proficiency requirement by placement exam score, by completing DVE-0009 or ESL-0102 or by exemption as a result of prior coursework.
- Meet intermediate level English proficiency requirements by placement exam score, by completing DVE-0011 or ESL-0201, or by exemption as a result of prior coursework.
- Meet pre-college level English requirements by placement exam score, by completing EGL-1000 or ESL-0202, or by exemption as a result of prior coursework.
Healthcare Mgmt. Required Courses
- Complete ACC-1030, BMT-2882, HIM-1530, SOC-2400, and EGL-1010.
- Take either BMT-1010 or BMT-1960.