Healthcare Management (3606)

With our Healthcare Management program, you’ll embark on a career path that can lead to medical practice management or medical office management positions including:

• Practitioner offices
• Holistic health practices
• Long-term care facilities
• Wellness centers.

If you’re already working as a healthcare clinician, this degree can also prepare you to advance to a management position in the healthcare industry. 

This program may be a perfect fit for your career goals if you:

• Consider yourself detail-oriented and organized
• Can multitask in a high-pressure environment
• Describe yourself as a natural problem solver who can think creatively
• Work well with others and can offer compassionate support 

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You’ll prepare for entry-level management positions within the healthcare industry. You’ll be taught management, marketing and accounting principles that apply to the healthcare environment.

By completing our program, you will learn how to: 

• Communicate effectively and professionally in business management situations through physical or virtual presence, writing, speaking, listening and electronic media
• Use quantitative and qualitative tools and methodologies to support business management and organizational decision making
• Describe economic, environmental, political, ethical, legal and regulatory contexts of global organizational management policies
• Evaluate healthcare management issues including financial, legal, operational and administrative procedures
• Use team building skills in the accomplishment of group goals and objectives
• Work effectively, respectfully, ethically and professionally with people of diverse ethnic, cultural, gender and other backgrounds and with people who have different organizational roles, social affiliations and personalities
• Solve problems related to healthcare management using critical thinking skills
• Utilize research methods to collect and analyze information regarding management concepts

• View summaries of every course at HACC by browsing our class schedules database.

• Review our program guide (pdf) to view a list of required courses, recommended course sequencing and program competencies.

Affordably YOURS, our programs are designed to be flexible enough to transfer to a wide variety of four-year colleges and universities with no loss of credit. However, each individual college has its own unique program. We encourage you to select a four-year school as soon as possible. This will allow you to learn the transfer college’s program requirements so you can take the proper classes at HACC.

As a HACC Health Care Management student, your transfer options include:

Conveniently YOURS, the complete program is available at all of HACC's campuses through various modalities (e.g., on-campus/in-person  instruction, hybrid, synchronous remote instruction and/or asynchronous instruction).

Yes! We offer many scholarships through the HACC Foundation. Each scholarship has specific eligibility requirements. To learn how to apply, please visit hacc.edu/Scholarships.

We offer classes in the spring, summer and fall. Visit our website to apply anytime. When you apply, make sure you include program code 3606 with your application. This code is unique to the Healthcare Management program and ensures you’re applying to the correct one.

Future students, we are excited to connect with you and answer your questions. Please choose the option that works best for you to meet with us.

Current HACC students, please contact our Advising Department with any questions.