Advanced Certificate in Health Administration
Learn to manage and direct operations at hospitals, agencies and more with our online certificate.
The 15-credit Advanced Certificate in Health Administration gives you the knowledge and skills needed to manage health departments, hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and other healthcare facilities. This certificate is intended for current and aspiring healthcare managers. This will help you advance in your career and qualify for higher positions across the field.
Our coursework covers the most important skills needed for Health Administrators:
- Communication and relationship management
- Knowledge of complex topics like insurance and health policy
- Leadership and professionalism
- Business, finance and marketing skills
What You’ll Learn
The Health Administration Certificate will build on your communication skills and help you effectively further your organization's vision. Our curriculum will empower you with tools to establish and foster an organizational culture that values personal and professional accountability.
You will learn to build and manage relationships and guide groups toward compromise. Discussions will focus on the impact of the politics around health insurance and health care. You’ll also learn how to effectively navigate policy decisions.
This program will expand your knowledge of healthcare systems and allow you to better understand the perspectives of patients, caregivers, the community and government. Graduates are prepared to set the organizational direction of a wide variety of healthcare organizations.
Health Administration Salary and Career
The average salary for healthcare administrators and managers in New York is $155,430. (bls.gov). Health care is by far the fastest-growing industry in the country in terms of employment growth. There’s always a high demand for trained and qualified managers and administrators. The job outlook for healthcare managers in particular has a very promising growth rate at 32%.
Along with physicians, healthcare leaders have the potential to make some of the highest salaries in the field. If you want to rise up the ranks in your career, an advanced certificate shows you have the skills and expertise needed for a management role.
Where Do Health Administrators Work?
Healthcare managers and administrators work in various settings—from government to insurance firms. Here are just a few places where you can find a healthcare management role:
- Federal Agencies like the FDA
- State and Local Agencies
- Group Medical Practices
- Home Health Agencies
- Hospitals and Medical Centers
- Health Insurance Companies
What Do Health Administrators Do?
Health administrators balance the many different responsibilities that come with managing a private firm, agency or healthcare practice. They oversee programs, coordinate between organizations and ensure the smooth operation of day-to-day tasks. Like most high-level managerial and c-suite positions, health administrators make important decisions when it comes to budget, staff development and compliance.
Most importantly, health administrators need to apply their extensive knowledge of the healthcare system to make sure areas like insurance, patient safety and satisfaction and health law are properly addressed. Health leaders need to understand the sometimes-complex medical jargon and technology that’s part of the field.
How to Apply
If you're a new student, not enrolled in the NYMC MPH, you'll apply through the School of Public Health Application Services, SOPHAS.
If you're currently enrolled at NYMC, please visit the registrar's office on the portal and complete the form there.
Health Administration Certificate Curriculum
HPMM 5001: Health Care in the United States
This course provides comprehensive overviews of the American healthcare systems, their organization, administration, and financing. In addition, lectures, exercises, and papers are structured to provide an understanding of the major stakeholders involved in health care; the issues driving the health care reform agenda; the use of community-based needs assessment in planning the delivery of healthcare services; and methods for measuring and monitoring the quality of care. Students will be introduced to other health care systems in readings and links when needed, which are related to the health care in the US to make them understand the similarities/ differences in health care systems.
HPMM 6010: Financial Implication of Managing Health Care
This course will provide students with current financial theory and tools needed in day-to-day practice by healthcare managers. This course encompasses virtually the entire spectrum of the industry, including hospitals, insurance companies, home health agencies, long-term care facilities, surgical centers, ambulatory practices and integrated healthcare systems.
HPMM 6048: Organizational Theory
This course will introduce students to the multidisciplinary field of managing organizations, including psychology, sociology, cultural anthropology, human resource management, social systems theory, organizational development (OD), and “learning organizations”. Students will develop expertise in analyzing behaviors and environments including the competitive landscape, macro and micro systems, and other dimensions that influence strategic planning, decision-making, managing behaviors and leadership.
HPMM 6072: Systems Thinking and Design
This course introduces students to some of the key concepts, strategies and analytic tools of operations management as they apply to the delivery of patient care. The course focuses on the philosophy of continuous improvement, working in teams and systems thinking. Students use management tools for process analysis and design, capacity planning, decision-making, and performance measurement. Also addressed is the central question of how to improve clinical and non-clinical performance of health services.
One additional 3 credit course from a specific list (check with your advisor)
HPMM 5002: Health Economics
This course explores the concepts of scarcity, social choice, resource allocation, efficiency, investment, and market forces and their relationship to health services delivery and health policy. A variety of analytical principles and methods are examined and applied to issues including healthcare financing, cost containment, regulation, access, insurance, productivity, and program evaluation.
HPMM 5003: Law and Health
This course provides an overview of the legal system, legal issues, and the convergence of public health policy and the law, through analysis of contemporary topics.
HPMM 6036: Information Systems for Health Care Management
Today’s healthcare managers must understand information technology and the use of data for planning, evaluation and decision making. This course provides healthcare managers with an overview of information management, information technology, the strategic use of information resources and the benefits to the organization.
HPMM 6062: Ethics in Health Care
This course focuses on the practical application of the principles of medical ethics to contemporary issues in healthcare planning, management, and delivery. In an era of increasing regulatory mandates and resource scarcity, an understanding of the function of ethical analysis is of critical importance in the identification, elucidation, and resolution of healthcare controversies. The course includes an overview of the philosophical foundations of the principles of medical ethics and presents a methodology for their employment in the attempted resolution of problems which exist at the confluence of medicine and morals. Issues of patient and professional autonomy, beneficence and non-malfeasance, confidentiality, informed consent, and distributive justice are explored. Application is made to such contemporary issues as euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, and AIDS
