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.
December 20, 2024
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.
November 21, 2024
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.
October 2, 2024
To help students find affordable programs, we’ve outlined the top 20 most affordable online MHA programs in 2024-2025.
September 19, 2024
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.
August 30, 2024
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.
August 8, 2024
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.
July 26, 2024
Congressional leaders in the House of Representatives and the Senate unloaded blistering criticisms at Change Healthcare’s parent company UnitedHealth Group during a pair of hearings on Capitol Hill in May 2024. At issue was UnitedHealth’s management of the February cyberattack on its subsidiary Change Healthcare.
April 30, 2024
Although students in MHA and healthcare MBA programs learn a vast assortment of managerial strategies, it’s unlikely that any of these programs would have taught them how to manage through the kind of catastrophic cyberattack that shut down Change Healthcare—and much of the U.S. healthcare industry.
April 16, 2024
Most MHA and healthcare MBA students who interview for internships and jobs with county medical centers and other state and local hospitals expect that they would work for such institutions as public employees following an offer. But if such facilities follow the controversial lead of California’s largest public healthcare district, public/private distinctions like those might soon become a lot more complicated.