PUBPOL 5663 - Health Care Strategy

Summer. 1.5 credits. Letter grades only.

Enrollment limited to: EMHA students.

T. Evans.

Examines strategy and design issues faced by health care organizations. Topics include analysis of market conditions, organizational culture issues, development of an organizational mission and management strategy, the management of professionals, and the importance of roles, structure, and inter and intra-institutional relationships within organizations. Taught via a case study approach.

Outcome 1: Analyze the strategic options available to different types of health care organizations.

Outcome 2: Explain the relationship of these strategic options to core underlying economic principles that influence firms and industries.

Outcome 3: Choose optimal strategy from the available options for health care organizations.