PH 242 Health Services Administration

Recent shifts in US healthcare policy toward reimbursement structures that incent high quality and efficient care, shift the focus from volume to value, increase revenue and cost pressures, and push leaders in public health to do more with less.  Managing for program outcomes and financial soundness has become ever more demanding.  The goal of the Health Services Administration course is to enable students to make value enhancing decisions and be effective leaders in the evolving health care market.

This course will teach students the basic principles of financial and managerial accounting and how to make a business case for a program or innovation. 

0.625 Dartmouth units; (HP, P, LP, NC)

Required for Online MPH

Instructor

Eric Wadsworth and Bonnie Blanchfield