M.H.A. Healthcare Administration

When you earn your Master of Healthcare Administration from Concordia University, Nebraska, you will: 

With an online M.H.A., you will: 

  • Learn the considerations related to healthcare management, including governance, organization structures, financials and policy.  
  • Gain a broad understanding of various healthcare settings, such as hospitals, physician clinics, home health, long-term care and more. 
  • Acquire the knowledge and skills you need by combining theory and a 70-hour practicum to ensure you’re fully prepared to meet the challenges of today’s dynamic healthcare field. 
  • Tailor your degree with a concentration in the population or sector you’re most interested in serving. 

Healthcare Administration Courses

36 credit hours
$500 credit hour price
Class Type 100% Online, 8-week courses
18 Months Time to Degree
 

Transform Healthcare as a Faith-Focused Servant Leader 

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Program Highlights

WHY CHOOSE CONCORDIA FOR A MASTER’S DEGREE IN HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATION? 

With an online graduate Master of Healthcare Administration degree in from Concordia University, you’ll find a distinctive blend of faith-based training and real-world experience alongside many other benefits: 

  • Draws on a strong Christian framework that not only focuses on career growth, but also student growth as healthcare servant leaders. 
  • Faculty with relevant experience in a wide variety of roles, from laboratory science to health informatics to academia, 
  • The ability to tailor your degree with a concentration in the population or sector you’re most interested in serving: 
    • Gerontology: Study the challenges, issues and social aspects affecting aging adults and discover how to provide the best possible healthcare for the elderly. 
    • Health Information Technology: Explore how to incorporate information technology into healthcare systems to improve patient care, cost efficiency and security. 
    • Leadership: Build on your knowledge of core business concepts such as human resources, financial management and organizational management as you prepare to be an ethical leader in healthcare. 
    • Population Health: Explore how to evaluate health risk behavior, the behavioral and psychological factors that affect physical conditions in people and how to manage the costs related to chronic illness. 

 

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Monica T.

When researching master’s degree programs, there were no programs in comparison to Concordia University. I chose Concordia is because it is faith-based. I appreciated the weekly scripture quotes of encouragement.

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Accreditation

Concordia's online Master of Healthcare Administration degree is designed to meet the rigorous standards of the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education. 

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Degree Goals

An M.H.A. graduate from Concordia University, Nebraska will be able to:  

  • Apply best practice business principles, including theory and techniques, to the healthcare environment.  
  • Communicate clearly, concisely and effectively within the context of professional healthcare environments.  
  • Employ key elements of leadership in the decision-making process and identify, direct and resolve considerations as a servant leader.  
  • Incorporate moral principles in a healthcare organization and infuse Christian values into all ethical dilemmas and their resolutions.  
  • Convey various healthcare issues, trends and perspectives to stakeholders and develop solutions that benefit all parties.  

Career Outcomes

After earning your M.H.A. online degree at Concordia Nebraska, you can pursue a wide range of careers in various sectors and settings of healthcare. For example, long-term care facilities, nursing home administration, epidemiology, nurse administration, health information technology, population health, and more. 

Administrative Service Manager

  • Coordinating your business’s services, including maintaining facilities, keeping records, planning budgets and allocating supplies.  
  • Manage staff development, regulation compliance or drafting communications for the executive team. 

Nurse Administrator

  • Manage staff in clinics, hospitals, or long-term care facilities, etc. 
  • Complete administrative tasks such as staff scheduling, performance reviews, attending meetings, developing training and personnel procedures, managing a budget, and more. 

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