Guides

These guides are resources for aspiring and current healthcare administration professionals. They include scholarship databases, salary tables, conference schedules, and lists of the top degrees and careers in this field.

Guide to Healthcare Leadership Conferences 2025 February 20, 2025

Guide to Healthcare Leadership Conferences 2025

Healthcare leadership conferences are nodes of knowledge that act as temporary centers of excellence. It’s here that industry leaders get together to discuss their challenges, opportunities, and research on the topics that matter most.

Guide to Service Line Structures in Healthcare Operations February 14, 2025

Guide to Service Line Structures in Healthcare Operations

Healthcare organizations must strategically structure their services and operate with an eye towards cost and resource availability. By utilizing a consolidated approach with a service line structure, organizations will garner benefits beyond just economies of scale through building up their stability for the future. In healthcare contexts, the term “service line” is a way of defining a specific line of business, often inclusive of operational, financial, and strategic attributes, and organizing that line of business with a governance structure.

Best Healthcare Administration Certifications (2025) February 13, 2025

Best Healthcare Administration Certifications (2025)

Professional certification in a particular area of healthcare administration not only proves that the holder is competent in a specialized area, it also shows one’s commitment to continued education, professional networking, and industry-recognized best practices.

Top Health Administration Scholarships in 2025 December 20, 2024

Top Health Administration Scholarships in 2025

The cost of higher education continues to rise, forcing students to take on a considerable amount of debt to fulfill their dream of getting a quality education. Fortunately for students in health administration, there is a growing number of scholarship opportunities.

Preventative Healthcare: A Healthcare Leader's Overview November 21, 2024

Preventative Healthcare: A Healthcare Leader's Overview

This essay establishes a basic framework for debating the merits of preventive care by exploring its primary components, proposed economic and societal benefits, barriers, and predicted future shifts.

Online MHA Programs Ranked by Affordability (2024-2025) October 2, 2024

Online MHA Programs Ranked by Affordability (2024-2025)

To help students find affordable programs, we’ve outlined the top 20 most affordable online MHA programs in 2024-2025.

Core Competencies for Healthcare Leaders (Part 2) September 19, 2024

Core Competencies for Healthcare Leaders (Part 2)

Importantly, interprofessional collaboration can also provide an opportunity for individuals from historically less advantaged groups to begin building the types of professional relationships that are critical to reaching the highest levels of leadership within an organization. This promulgates diversity up through the chain of management in a more organic way.

Core Competencies for Healthcare Leaders (Part 1) August 30, 2024

Core Competencies for Healthcare Leaders (Part 1)

Mastering the array of skills needed to effectively navigate and manage the people, processes, and tools at play is crucial for gaining and retaining a competitive edge. This three-part essay series summarizes important areas in which rising healthcare leaders should focus their efforts as they work to develop their essential skills and build out their knowledge base. This first essay will cover digital literacy & technological proficiency, patient-centered care competencies, and value-based care expertise.

Telehealth Home Care for Hospitalized Patients Gains Momentum on Capitol Hill August 8, 2024

Telehealth Home Care for Hospitalized Patients Gains Momentum on Capitol Hill

Through a surprising May 2024 feature article in Politico, a broad audience of Americans learned for the first time that it’s now possible to provide hospital-quality care to a substantial proportion of recovering inpatients at home. What’s even more surprising is that hospitals are treating some of these patients at home for acute conditions.