Health Management and Policy Programs Certificate

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The Health Management and Policy Programs of the Price School of Public Policy offers certificate programs in specialized areas of health care administration. The certificates are designed to provide practitioners with means for improving or updating their knowledge and experience in a challenging and professionally relevant course of study. Certificates are offered in Administration of Long Term Care Programs and Management of Ambulatory Care Systems. Applicants for the certificate programs must make formal application for admission to the certificate program, provide transcripts of all college work, supplemented by three letters of recommendation, including one from a former instructor, a resume and a personal statement describing their career goals and the relationship of the certificate to those ends.

It is expected that applicants to the certificate programs should have graduated from a recognized college with an approximate grade point average of B in the last 60 units of college work. Non-graduates may be admitted if the director believes that there is evidence to suggest that the applicant is capable of graduate level work.

Successful completion of the certificate will not be a deciding factor in the admission decision for the degrees offered by the Health Management and Policy Programs or the Price School of Public Policy.

Ambulatory Care

The Ambulatory Care program requires 20 units of graduate credit including a 16-unit core and a four-unit specialized seminar in the area of the certificate concentration.

Core courses (16 units) are:

PPD 509 Problems and Issues in the Health Field Units: 4
PPD 510a Financial Management of Health Services Units: 4 or
PPD 516 Financial Accounting for Health Care Organizations Units: 4
PPD 545 Human Behavior in Public Organizations Units: 4 or
PPD 557 Modeling and Operations Research Units: 4
one elective

One specialized seminar as follows (four units):

Certificate in Administration of Long Term Care Programs

The Certificate in Administration of Long Term Care Programs requires 16 units of course work

The required courses are

GERO 500 Perspectives on a Changing Society: An Introduction to Aging Units: 4
PPD 513 Legal Issues in Health Care Delivery Units: 2
PPD 518 Quality of Care Concepts Units: 2
PPD 601 Management of Long-Term Care Organizations Units: 4
PPD 510a Financial Management of Health Services Units: 4 or
PPDE 645 Financial Management of Nonprofit Organizations Units: 4

Note:

The program can be completed via distance learning.

Additional Requirements

Completing a certificate program does not constitute completion of or admission to the Master of Health Administration (MHA) or Executive Master of Health Administration (EMHA) degree programs nor will it be a deciding factor in the admission decision to those programs. Students in the MHA program, however, may qualify for award of these certificates if they complete the applicable course requirements.