DHA Program Description

Program content

The DHA combines theory and practice in ways that allow you to make a substantive contribution to your organization and to the larger community of healthcare administration. Your work in the program fosters your expanded knowledge in the following areas:

• Leadership, change management, and "influence strategies" in healthcare administration;
• Strategic thinking, planning processes and associated content areas;
• The science and art of human interaction at the individual, group and organizational levels, focusing on improving healthcare organizations;
• Impact of communication environments and organizational designs on group and organizational communication;
• Health communication, informatics, and information technology and the concomitant impact on organizations and health systems;
• Contemporary models in healthcare delivery systems to include relationship building, collaboration, mergers and acquisitions;
• Healthcare economic realities, financial planning and decision-making, and how these impact leadership and organizational effectiveness;
• The interaction of healthcare policy, regulation, and community and how healthcare professionals can positively impact these areas;
• The application of qualitative, quantitative, and research methods in order to evaluate and apply decision-making concepts in healthcare organizations;
• Contemporary human resource issues facing healthcare administrators such as diversity, poverty, human rights, sexism, racism, and unionization;
• Use of online and print media to locate scholarly and applied resources to include Internet usage; and
• The role of values and ethics in contemporary healthcare organizations.

Strong advising, mentoring and tutoring (as required) support you in your quest to earn a doctoral degree; you will be assigned an adviser (didactic portion of program) and a major professor (dissertation) to guide and oversee work completed throughout the program.

In addition, Off- Campus Library Services (OCLS), acknowledged as the best distance delivery library service in the education industry, offers you online research assistance, document delivery (electronic and physical delivery service), and general library services.

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