Emerging Healthcare Leadership: Essential Business Knowledge and Skills

Upcoming Dates: Available Soon
Time: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. each day
Cost: $3,500
Location: Virtual via Zoom

Course Description

This six-day certificate course is for clinical and non-clinical individuals wanting a better understanding of the challenges facing healthcare and the business skills required to excel as new healthcare leaders.

The course will begin by looking at the challenges facing healthcare and the search for value. We will then discuss leadership of self and teams. We will next look at improving quality in healthcare with an overview of quality tools and projects incorporating Lean Six Sigma and Root Cause Analysis, and a look at strategies such as evidence-based care, patient-centered care, clinical integration, and population health. In approaching cost concerns in healthcare, we will review essential financial accounting, managerial accounting, finance, and organizational planning and budgeting. We will next look at some of the constraints on healthcare including ethics, health law, medical malpractice, and policy formulation. In our operations module, we will provide an overview of healthcare information, marketing, innovation, and human resources. In our final module, we will survey the healthcare ecosystem and discuss strategy.

Who Should Attend

This course will be especially helpful to:

• Doctors, physicians, nurses, allied health personnel
• First-time healthcare managers and administrators
• Individuals who want to understand the essential business knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in today’s complex healthcare environment

Modules & Agenda

• View Schedule: Week 1: Leadership and Value

  8 a.m.	Coffee
  8:30 - 10 a.m.	Challenges Lecture Break
  10 a.m. - 12 p.m.	Value Lecture *Volume to Value Exercise +Cincinnati Children’s Case
  12 - 1 p.m.	Lunch
  1 - 2:30 p.m.	Leading Self Lecture *Personal Mission, Vision, Values Exercise *Personal Inventory Exercise – Strengths, Weaknesses *Organization Exercise Break
  2:30 - 4:30 p.m.	Leading Teams Lecture *Everest Leadership Simulation

• View Schedule: Week 2: Quality

  8 a.m.	Coffee
  8:30 - 10 a.m.	Zero Harm and HRO’s Lecture *Hospital Reporting Project Exercise Break
  10 a.m. - 12 p.m.	Quality Strategies Evidence Based Care Patient Centered Care and Clinical Integration Population Health Lecture +Dartmouth Case
  12 - 1 p.m.	Lunch
  1 - 3 p.m.	Quality Improvement Projects and Tools Lecture *Lean Exercise Break
  3 - 4:30 p.m.	Lean Six Sigma and Root Cause Analysis Lecture *Radonda Vought Exercise

• View Schedule: Week 3: Cost

  8 a.m.	Coffee
  8:30 - 10 a.m.	Accounting Fundamentals Lecture *Accounting Exercise *Financial Statement Exercise Break
  10 a.m. - 12 p.m.	Managerial Accounting Fundamentals Lecture *Managerial Accounting Exercise +Schon Klinik Case
  12 - 1 p.m.	Lunch
  1 - 3 p.m.	Finance Fundamentals Lecture *Finance Exercise Break
  3 - 4:30 p.m.	Organizational Planning and Budgeting Lecture *Budgeting Exercise

• View Schedule: Week 4: Law, Policy & Ethics

  8 a.m.	Coffee
  8:30 - 10 a.m.	Ethics Lecture Break
  10 a.m. - 12 p.m.	Health Law Lecture
  12 - 1 p.m.	Lunch
  1 - 3 p.m.	Medical Malpractice Lecture +Dana Farber Break
  3 - 4:30 p.m.	Healthcare Policy Lecture

• View Schedule: Week 5: Operations

  8 a.m.	Coffee
  8:30 - 10 a.m.	Information Lecture Break
  10 a.m. - 12 p.m.	Marketing Lecture
  12 - 1 p.m.	Lunch
  1 - 2:30 p.m.	Innovation Lecture Break
  2:30 - 4:30 p.m.	Human Resources and Culture Lecture

• View Schedule: Week 6: Strategy

  8 a.m.	Coffee
  8:30 - 10 a.m.	Healthcare Ecosystem Lecture Break
  10 a.m. - 12 p.m.	Strategy Formulation Tools and Frameworks Lecture *Strategy Exercise +Oak Street Case
  12 - 1 p.m.	Lunch
  1 - 3 p.m.	Leading Organizations Lecture Break
  3 - 4:30 p.m.	Course Wrap Up Lecture

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