Although critical to sustain human life, healthcare suffers from a critical shortage of qualified practitioners and support personnel. Its chronic deficiencies are becoming increasingly urgent due to emergent trends toward higher quality and lower cost. These concurrent movements have induced radical paradigm shifts to emphasis on healthcare administration. After all, it calls for outstanding oversight to manage maximum efficiency with minimum resources. Those yearning for higher learning to perform such laudable budgetary balancing acts should pay rapt attention to the following details about educational opportunities in the “Peach State”, better known as Georgia.
Armstrong Atlantic State University (“AASU”)
College of Health Professions (“CHP”)
Students in CHP programs enjoy the best of both academic worlds. Although Georgia’s biggest undergrad health educational facility, CHP features very small classes. It deliberately does so to maintain a low student-faculty ratio in furtherance of its mission to improve general health and wellbeing within culturally diverse communities through healthcare education that emphasizes evidence-based, compassionate, team-oriented practice.
Master of Health Services Administration (“MHSA”)
This MHSA program has a stated learning objective of enabling students to master theoretical knowledge and develop practical skills essential to competent administration of healthcare service organizations throughout all patient care continua. To advance that agenda, it places special emphases on legal, economic, managerial, and organizational aspects of healthcare delivery in evolutionary, dynamic environments.
Those means are designed to meet the end of preparing well-qualified, culturally diverse student bodies for positions of leadership in healthcare administration. As such, all components of its 53-credit curriculum are constructed on common bases of competency, contemporariness, and student-centricity.
Accreditation
The MSHA at AASU is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation Healthcare Management Education (“CAHME”) and is a full member of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (“AUPHA”).
Contact
Dr. Joseph Crosby, R.Ph.
MHSA Graduate Coordinator
Phone: (912) 344-2657
Joey.Crosby@armstrong.edu
Website URL – http://www.armstrong.edu/Majors/degree/health_services_administration
Georgia State University (“GSU”)
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Institute of Health Administration
GSU’s Institute of Health Administration is internationally-renowned for the outstanding contributions of its large alumni base, high educational quality, and extensive research activities. This comes as no surprise, considering the impressive accomplishments of its organizational parent COB. IHA has a departmental mission of providing high-quality graduate education, career development, and research in healthcare management and administration.
Master of Science in Health Administration Program (“MSHA”)
In keeping with its fine institutional history, the MSHA program at GSU ranks highly as among the 2011 Best Graduate Health Administration Program listings by U.S. News & World Reports. This program offers seven different MSHA Concentrations, including:
• Clinical Management
• Finance
• Human Resource Management
• Health Informatics
• Managerial Sciences
• Marketing
• Risk Management and Insurance
MSHA students in all Concentrations must complete 36 credits comprised of:
• Foundation courses – 3 classes
• Health Administration Core courses – 24 credits in 8 classes
• Concentration courses – 12 credits in 4 classes
In response to increasing regulatory and legal juxtapositions with healthcare landscapes, MSHA program administrators recently joined forces with GSU’s School of Law to devise a dual JD/MSHA degree program. Their educational brainchild was conceived to expedite the process of earning both credentials. Its key to success is curricular acceleration via cross-crediting coursework.
Accreditation
The MSHA program at GSU holds full CAHME accreditation and AUPHA membership.
Contact
Institute of Health Administration
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3988
Atlanta, GA 30302-3988
Phone: (404) 413-7630
E-mail: healthadministration@gsu.edu
Website URL – http://healthadmin.robinson.gsu.edu/academic-programs/msha/