Healthcare Business Today

Your leading source for best practices across the healthcare spectrum

Education

Waldorf’s New Master of Arts in Health Care Management Degree Equips Graduates for Leadership

by Leave a Comment

Waldorf University recently bolstered its online degree program offerings with the launch of its newest program, a Master of Arts in health care management.

The Master of Arts in health care management calls for a completion of its 36-credit hour curriculum, a minimum 3.00 cumulative GPA and a maximum of 18 transfer credits.

“We feel the health care management degree program addresses some of the health care industry’s continuing battle of shortages of qualified leaders and managers that may provide good direction, improve current system needs, and are equipped to negotiate the changing face of health care,” said Neal McGregor, Ph.D., director of graduate studies at Waldorf.

In addition to the graduate program in health care management, Waldorf also offers an A.A. in health care management, a B.A. in health care management, a B.S. in organizational leadership with a concentration in health care management and a health care management certification. [Read more…] about Waldorf’s New Master of Arts in Health Care Management Degree Equips Graduates for Leadership

Scholarship Program Honors Superheroes of Healthcare

by Leave a Comment

When Central Infusion Alliance, Inc. (CIA Medical) created an essay-based scholarship program in the spring of 2017, the Chicago-area medical products distributor had an ulterior motive. In addition to helping students fund their post-secondary educations, the company wanted to unmask the unsung superheroes of healthcare – the doctors, nurses, physical therapists and others who strive every day to improve their patients’ physical and emotional wellbeing.

“With so many people focused on the cost of healthcare, we wanted to remind everyone that – at its heart – this industry is about people helping people,” said CIA Medical Managing Partner Charles Lewis. “So we asked each applicant to write a story of how a healthcare worker made a difference in their life or a loved one’s life. We weren’t sure what to expect, but when the essays began flooding in, they blew our minds. People were in tears while reading these essays.”

From across the country, hundreds young people from diverse backgrounds shared intimate stories about compassionate and dedicated professionals who delivered not only great clinical care, but also helped them cope with physical pain, fear and emotional traumas.



[Read more…] about Scholarship Program Honors Superheroes of Healthcare

Exhibit Portrays the Legacy of Health Systems Engineering and the University of Pittsburgh

by Leave a Comment

In 1952, the University of Pittsburgh began to develop, organize, and formalize the profession we know as Health Systems Engineering (HSE).  Prior to then, Industrial Engineering in hospitals or Hospital Management Engineering was a few discrete activities around the country. 

In recognition of the University’s pivotal and unique role, an exhibit conveying the story of Pitt’s legacy in the incubation, development, and continuing advancement of the profession was recently unveiled by the Industrial Engineering Department.  It reflects the combined perspectives of healthcare HSE practitioners and academicians.

The idea for the exhibit was precipitated by the author’s professional connections to Harold Smalley and Edward Gerner, individuals who will be discussed in this article.  The Smalley family graciously donated unique personal material.  Gerner contributed insightful information both verbal, obtained during chats over coffee, and written.

The exhibit describes how the School of Nursing prompted the need for methods improvement to preserve nursing manpower in response to a dire nurses’ shortage that faced the nation resulting from World War II.  Dean Ruth Kuehn, a progressive thinker, enlisted the assistance of Dr. Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Mother of Modern Management to tackle the challenge.  They brought in and collaborated with Harold Smalley, from the University of Connecticut, to apply industrial engineering techniques to improve hospital operations with high emphasis on nursing. Eventually, Smalley became Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of Health Sciences at Pitt and he was the first in the country to integrate health professions education with industrial engineering. [Read more…] about Exhibit Portrays the Legacy of Health Systems Engineering and the University of Pittsburgh