Nec Msha Brochure

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Community Quality Empowerment Opportunity Master o Science in Management

Healthcare AdministrationOnline


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Message rom the Dean 1

Program Overview 2

Learning Outcomes 3

Course Curriculum 4

Te Online NEC Experience 6

Five Levels o Support 7

Admission Requirements 8

uition and Fees 9

Frequently Asked Questions 10

About New England College 11

able o Contents

President o New England College

Michele Perkins, Ed.D.


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Message rom the

Dean

I am pleased to welcome you to the Master of Science in Management - Healthcare Administration - Online (MSHA)

program at New England College, one of the most forward-looking, relevant courses of study available in this area.

New England Colleges Master o Science in Management - Healthcare Administration - Online (MSHA) program providesstudents with proven leadership skills to meet the real challenges acing the dynamic healthcare industry. Te comprehensive

curriculum oers both quantitative and qualitative courses, all taught by aculty who have roots in management education and

the healthcare industry.

As a New England College MSHA student, you will acquire knowledge o how all the various sectors o the healthcare

industry work together to orm service organizations. In turn, you will be able to use that inormation to critically analyze

current practices and ormulate plans o action or improvement.

Our MSHA students and graduates are amazed at the level o convenience oered by this program. Online delivery o our

MSHA program is supported by our extraordinary 24/7 technical support system. Our online students are able to balance

home and work schedules with ease, with a manageable time commitment o 15 to 20 hours per week. Our s tudents are not

only able to retain their present jobs, but actually enhance them. As they learn new techniques in administration, students add

stature to their reputations, and their credentials.

Te MSHA program is geared toward advanced work in healthcare administration. Its immense value to your working lie

begins with the major decision you are about to make.

Please eel ree to call our Admissions Advisors or more inormation on the program, tuition, and nancial aid.

I look orward to welcoming you to New England College.

Sincerely,

Nelly Lejter, PhDDean o Graduate and Proessional Studies

New England College

School o Graduate and Proessional Studies


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Make a dierence in your community. Staycompetitive in your career. Learn rom healthcareleaders at New England College.

Te Master o Science in Management - Healthcare Administration - Online

(MSHA) program will provide you with a well-rounded management degree inhealthcare administration and prepare you or uture opportunities in various

healthcare institutions, hospitals, and long-term care acilities. Our students come

rom a variety o healthcare backgrounds: nurses, physicians, technicians and

administrators (CFOs and CIOs). You will examine topics such as managerial

economics in healthcare, marketing management in healthcare and organizational

communication, conict resolution, and negotiation.

Online, Convenient, Flexible

Te MSHA online program consists o nine courses or a total o 36 credit hours. You

can complete the program in less than two years. You will take two online, seven-week

courses per semester, ocusing on one course at a time. Tis course delivery method is

specically designed or working proessionals like you to make the most efcient use o

your time and to optimize your learning experience.

You can start the program six times per year in spring, summer, or all.

Program Overview

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An excellent way for an adult learner to pursue an advanced degree. The 24/7access made it the perfect solution for someone with a demanding job and

changing schedule.

Nancy Fiamingo,

MSHA Online Student


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VicePresident


Find out or yoursel how New England Collegesqualitycurriculum can enrich your career.

New England Colleges Master o Science in Management - Healthcare

Administration - Online program is a specialized degree or healthcare

proessionals who want to advance to more senior management roles. Te

curriculum will challenge students to identiy and overcome obstacles to strategic

thinking, develop a ramework or creating strategic solutions, and acquire the

leadership skills that contribute to managing change and uncertainty in healthcare

organizations and their environments.

You will acquire the knowledge and skills, in leadership and managerial approaches

to marketing, economics, project management, and nance, to successully lead a

healthcare organization. In addition to exploring the business aspects o healthcare

administration, strategies or taking account o human aspects such as ethics,cultural diversity, negotiation and conict resolution, and leadership styles are also

examined. NECs goal is to provide the healthcare industry with graduates who

understand the big picture in this growing sector.

A great institution to consider if you want to get an online

advanced degree. Every class touched on something that was

helpful to me in at least some way. It helped to open my eyes

to better management ideas and skills and provided me with

information to make me a better person, manager and help my

staff improve themselves as well.

The structure of this program kept me interested and wanting

to work and I enjoyed working with all of the students and NEC

faculty and staff I have come into contact with along the way. My

immediate supervisor has told me that he sees improvement in

managing of my staff.

Michael Miller,

MSHA Online

Student

Learning Outcomes


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Vice President

Course Curriculum


NECs curriculum empowers graduatesto achieve their cherished lielonglearning goals.

Te Master o Science in Management - Healthcare Administration

- Online program consists o nine courses or a total o 36 credit hours.

You will begin the program with core courses and then progress into

concentration courses that ocus on your area o interest. At the end o the

program, you will use the skills learned within the program in a practical

problem-solving Capstone Project.

Below is a listing o the core courses, concentration courses, and the

Capstone project:

Organization Management and Leadership 4 credits

Tis course combines theory and practice by encouraging students to

learn traditional and contemporary leadership theories and apply them in

analyzing the behavior o leaders, colleagues, and subordinates. Trough

a variety o readings, cases, and exercises, students will examine eective

leadership models. opics include the evolution o leadership; the roles o

strategy and vision in transormational change; the development o leaders;

the leadership responsibilities o creating eective teams, organizations,

and cultures; the exploration o dierent leadership styles; and current

popular approaches to leadership theory.

Managing Projects in Organizations 4 credits

Tis course denes the terminology o project management, and describes

the stages o the project lie cycle. Students are introduced to the

underlying principles and various techniques or managing new programs

and projects. Tis course presents an overview o managing a project rom

start to nish. Students will examine project organizational structure, work

breakdown, scheduling, budgeting, costing, resource allocation, and human

resource considerations throughout the project process. opics include

the management o human resources and team building; planning and

control; scope management; time and cost management; quality and risk

management; and technical tools, including GAN and PER charting.

Issues in Ethics or Healthcare 4 credits

Tis course explores and analyzes the interrelationships among

stakeholders in the healthcare industry. Te moral implications o the

healthcare organization and its decisions are explored with respect to their

social eects, and to the tension that exists between achieving desirable

outcomes and attending to the means by which they are achieved.

opics include theories o morality; analysis o ethical decision-making;

interaction and confict among personal, proessional, and organizational

values; the eect o cultural diversity on individual and group values;

current issues; and the impact o ethical considerations on healthcare

organizations. Te roles o individual and collective choice in the

management o competitive environments and organizational positions on

contemporary moral issues are also examined.

Managerial Accounting and Finance or Leadership 4 credits

Tis course equips students to more eectively and ethically lead and

infuence in situations where nancial issues play a key role, with

particular attention to public scal management. Tis course serves as an

introduction to the concepts and principles o nancial management and

managerial accounting, ocusing on the development and use o budgets

or planning and control, demonstrating accountability, and establishing

priorities within an organization. Students will explore the tools and

techniques available to maximize the use o scarce resources, and the

implications o public unding and cost accounting or programs and

initiatives within the organization.

Strategic Planning and Policy or Healthcare 4 credits

Tis course will examine the process o strategic planning. Organizations

are undergoing a series o revolutionary changes, including vertical

integration, horizontal consolidation, strategic alliances and joint ventures,

entrepreneurial startups, and development o specialized niche networks.

Tis course will critically examine these changes, and discuss the various


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Course Curriculum


strategic decisions and managerial skills needed to conront them in a

variety o orms in organizations. Te primary ocus o the course is on

the strategy o the business unit - which is the oundational level or

competitive analysis - and an analysis o the issues central to the rms

short-term and long-term competitive success. Using a combination o

case studies and industry eld research, students will assume the roles

o key decision-makers and/or advisors in analyzing these issues and

oering recommendations or strategic change.

Managerial Economics or Healthcare 4 credits

Tis course develops the students capacity to analyze the economic

environment in which a healthcare organization operates. Te ocus is

on understanding the constraints the environment places on its goals,

and how these constraints may change with time. Students learn how to

apply economic reasoning to internal decision-making and public policy

issues aecting the healthcare sector. Students will examine a variety o

skills required in managing healthcare organizations in light o economic

realities, including activity-based costing, cost estimation, relevant costs,

and pricing policies.

Marketing Management in Healthcare and Service 4 credits

Tis course introduces undamental marketing principles and

dierentiates issues specic to service industries, health organizations,

and undraising structures. Students will develop a oundational

knowledge o marketing concepts and practices, marketing decision-

making and techniques, and sources o nancial support and strategies

or their development. Focus is on practical application o marketing

knowledge and skills in healthcare and service environments.

Organizational Communications, Confict Resolution and Negotiations

4 credits

Tis course explores the psychological contract in the many orms

possible among individuals and groups, rom the perspective o exercising

leadership in the management o these relationships. Students study

group ormation and development, as well as the intricacies o coaching,

mentoring, and confict resolution. Te impact o organizational behavior

on leadership eectiveness is explored. Organizational communication,

including ormal and inormal communication, is analyzed to determine

the relationship between communication and organizational satisaction

and eectiveness. opics include preparing or a negotiation; understanding

individual preerences; identiying ethical and cross-cultural issues; and

determining when and how to util ize available outside resources. Students

assess the importance o coaching and open communication when

inspiring individuals to overcome barriers to peak perormance.

Masters Capstone Project 4 credits

In this summative course in the program, each student will undertake

a major investigation o a signicant leadership and management

challenge. Students propose either a public policy initiative or an

organizational change or innovation that is responsive to an issue they

have identied. In the process o researching the problem and proposing

an evidence-based solution or improvement, students integrate principles,

theories, and methods learned in required program courses.

Students may enroll in a non-credit sel-study Proposal Development

course, whenever and as oten as they wish. Te Proposal Development

course guides them in writing an approvable proposal. Once the proposal

is approved and students have completed all other courses in their

program, they may enroll in the Capstone course. During this nal

course in the program, students will gather and analyze their research,

and create a viable strategic plan or implementing their project.


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Te Online

NEC Experience


Students have an opportunitytoexcel academically.

New England College (NEC) has a rich tradition o academic

excellence. Our online programs are designed or proessionals who

have already achieved success in their careers and who want to enrich

their knowledge with advanced study.

We understand how important it is to be able to pursue a graduate

degree without disrupting your career or uprooting your amily.

NECs online programs satisy those needs, while delivering a highly

respected online degree that is as demanding and rewarding as our

traditional on-campus programs.

Te Convenience o Learning Online

Online learning can be even more satisying than traditional classroom

learning because it ocuses on you. You learn rom the convenience o

your home or ofce, at the time o day that suits you, while maintaining

communication with aculty and ellow students. Here are some

examples o the many benets o e-Learning:

Flexible scheduling

e-Learning is designed or busy proessionals like you. You plan your

study time around your schedule, and work at your own pace. Te

program is based on an innovative, asynchronous model, so there is

no need to disrupt your work and amily lie. Your instructor lays out

the course in a detailed schedule, so you know what to expect and

how to prepare.

Accessible resources

All printed materials and textbooks are conveniently delivered to you

beore the start o each seminar. Our extensive online library and

resource center is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all year long.

Many students report that using the online library is easier and more

convenient than visiting a traditional bricks-and-mortar library.

Immediate responsesWith just a click, you can send questions or requests to proessors, ellow

students, and program managers. Our aculty and sta will respond

within 24 hours.

Intimate classes

We utilize a cohort system, whereby you progress through the program

with a small group o 12 to 15 ellow students. Tis system ensures that

you are part o a community o your peers, a community that provides

support, challenges your abilities, and encourages discussion.

Individual attention

Because the virtual class size is so small, you will receive individual

attention rom your proessors. Tey are experienced proessionals who

are also highly trained in online instruction. Your instructor also serves

as a group acilitator, who develops you and your classmates into a

learning community eager to engage in discussions o current issues and

realistic scenarios.

The course organization was superb. I also enjoy

the incredible skills from facilitators that kept peer

interaction always at a professional level.

Jean DeSueza, MD

MSHA Online Student

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Five

Levels o Support


Student

Services

Advisor

Admissions

Advisor

Facilitator

Faculty

Technical

Support

Te NEC community is committed to oeringpersonal support and attention to each student.

Helping our Masters Degree candidates is the goal o each member o

the New England College online learning team. We are here to help you every

step o the way by providing you with:

1. Your own personal Admissions Advisor2. Your own personal Student Services Advisor

3. Your own personal Facilitator

4. Te Universitys most highly regarded Faculty

5. Helpul Liveechnical Support. You will be able to talk with a highly

qualied proessional technician whose goal is to provide you with helpul

riendly advice on resolving your hardware and sotware issues.

Tis program has been structured or those seeking both challenging graduate

studies and the tools needed by legal and nancial services proessionals. Integral

to this degree is the online collaboration among you, your small group and

instructor, and the outstanding New England College aculty members rom the

privacy and convenience o your home or ofce.


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Giving you the opportunityto ulll your goals.

Admission to New England College is based on individual potential, not test

scores. Our objective is to help all students achieve their educational goals by

providing counseling rom admission to graduation.

o be considered or admission, applicants must meet the ollowing criteria:

HBachelors degree rom a college or university in the United States, accreditedby one o the six regional accrediting bodies;

H Depending on your undergraduate course o study, prerequisite coursesmay be required;

H OEFL: Students or whom English is not their rst language require a

OEFL score o 550 (213 computer version) or above.

In addition to the basic requirements, applicants must submit the ollowing:

H Completed and signed application orm;

H An application ee o $90 US payable to New England College;H Ofcial transcript(s) o al l post-secondary institutions attended;

H Current resume;

H Personal statement describing your background, experience, and actors that

have led to the decision to pursue a graduate program;

H wo letters o recommendation attesting to proessional abilities and

qualication or graduate study.

Admission Requirements


I am in a better position to compete for administrative

positions in the healthcare feld. I also have a greater

understanding of budgeting, capital investments, and

other HR functions.

Anne Ricketts,

MSHA Online Student

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uition and Fees


Giving you the opportunityto advance with relevant,practical and aordable education.

Te tuition ee consists o the ollowing components:

H Non-reundable registration ee

H Course tuition

Cost o books is not included in the course tuition. All prices aresubject to change.

For the most updated inormation on tuition ees, please contact an

Admissions Advisor.

Financial Aid

Te ability to pay or your education is an important consideration. Our AdmissionsOfce can assist you in exploring alternative nancing options. I you are a resident

o the United States and want to apply or nancial aid, please complete a Free

Application or Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), which can be obtained rom the

FAFSA website atwww.fafsa.ed.gov. Students may be eligible or a range o loans

available specically or graduate study and are encouraged to apply. Financial aid

eligibility is renewed each year, and revisions or adjustments are made to ensure that

aid eligibility is proportionate with each amilys nancial circumstances.

Employer Sponsored uition Assistance

Many organizations oer employee tuition assistance and, in some cases, cover

100 percent o tuition costs. Programs and policies vary among employers.

Consult your Human Resources department to learn more about employer

tuition assistance at your organization.

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Vice PresidentFrequently

Asked Questions


We are here to support you and answer all yourquestions rom enrollment to graduation.

How is NEC accredited?

NEC is accredited by the New England

Association o Schools and Colleges.

For more inormation,

visitwww.neasc.org.

Is the online graduate degree any

dierent rom degrees earned on

campus at New England College?

No. You wil l receive the same degree

and your diploma is the same as

students on-campus diplomas.

How many credits and courses do I

take each semester?

Tere are six terms per year with one

course oered per term. Each course is

worth our credit hours.

How much does the online graduate

programs cost?

Te online graduate programs arecompetitively priced. For more

inormation, please contact our

Admissions Advisors.

How much time is required or the

online graduate programs?

Te online graduate programs are

designed or working proessionals with

demands o work and home. Most

students require 15 to 20 hours o study

per week. Your instructor will help

keep you on track and your cohort will

be a tremendous source o support.

Do I need to take the GRE, GMA or

other standardized tests?

No. Standardized tests are not requiredor entry into the online graduate

programs. Admission is based on

your experience and proessional

accomplishments.

Do you accept transer credits?

We will assess transer credits that

may reduce the total number o credits

required to complete the program,up to six credits. Tis will be done on

a case-by-case basis. New England

College (NEC) does not grant credit

or work experience.


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