HCA350 Healthcare Systems & Quality Mgmt

This course explores issues related to organized delivery systems and the role of healthcare organizations within them. The course blends practice with theory, introducing issues common to the success or failure of health care systems. Additionally, this course introduces the concept of quality and the process of quality improvement across the health care continuum. This course focuses on the history and evolution of quality; its terms, principles, theories, and practices. The student is introduced to a diverse collection of methods of improving quality; including but not limited to: continuous quality improvement, total quality management, and to the guidelines for implementing these quality improvement processes. Prerequisite- HCA201 Introduction to Healthcare Management