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.

Patients Not Told AI Drafted Messages From Their Doctors April 7, 2025

Patients Not Told AI Drafted Messages From Their Doctors

Increasingly, doctors aren’t writing the first drafts of replies to those messages. At more than 150 health systems and medical offices across America, a new generative artificial intelligence function in MyChart now writes over a million reply drafts every month.

Steward Health: CEO Charged With Contempt of Congress After Defying Subpoena to Testify April 1, 2025

Steward Health: CEO Charged With Contempt of Congress After Defying Subpoena to Testify

The national media has been buzzing with coverage of Dr. Ralph de la Torre, the embattled former CEO of hospital industry giant Steward Health Care who stepped down in October 2024. In one of the most colossal failures of a hospital chain in American history, the Dallas-based for-profit Steward system declared bankruptcy the previous May.

Online MHA Programs Ranked by Affordability (2025) March 19, 2025

Online MHA Programs Ranked by Affordability (2025)

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

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.

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.