BSHM Curriculum

The program consists of a combination of technical semester credit hours and upper-level BSHM undergraduate courses. Courses will rotate and students will register as they appear each semester. Students will select courses from their degree plan and register each semester to complete the 120 hour degree plan objective. The distance education format relies primarily on internet based (HUB/SAKAI) course offerings. The program requires the completion of all required Texas Common Core courses prior to enrollment in the BSHM courses.

Technical Credits

The intent of the Technical Credit portion of the BSHM degree is to tailor the student’s degree plan to achieve their career goals following graduation.

Technical Credits – Healthcare Professional Concentration

Students entering the program as noted previously with training in a healthcare concentration from an accredited institution of higher education may qualify for transferring up to 48 clinical course credit(s) to the technical credit portion of the degree plan. Other healthcare clinical concentrations will also be considered.

Technical Credits - Executive Management Concentration

Students who lack training in a clinical concentration may complete BSHM elective courses beyond the required 12 credits, and apply these elective courses to the technical credit portion of the degree plan. Technical credit requirements may be fulfilled by completing courses in accounting, finance, marketing, business administration, and economics. These courses must be pre-approved by the student’s academic advisor.

A grade of a “C” or better is required for all technical credit coursework.

All credits must be completed prior to enrollment in HPHM 4478 and HPHM 4341.

• HPHM 1002 Foundations for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (0:0:0,O)

• HPHM 4060 Independent Study in Clinical Service Management (1-6:1-6:0,O)

  This course involves an independent project designed to meet the individual students needs and/or interests. This may include, but is not limited to, a research project and/or course/skill review.

• HPHM 4302 Healthcare Financial Management (3:3:0,O)

  This course examines the basic principles of healthcare financial management. Topics will include healthcare financial systems, reporting, analysis, control, revenue planning, cost accounting, budgeting, and resource management allocation.

• HPHM 4303 Principles of Human Resources Management (3:3:0,O)

  This course provides an overview of interpersonal dynamics, conflict resolution, and supervisor responsibilities. Topics include task analysis, developing position descriptions, recruiting, employee supervision, labor law, benefit programs, and employment contracts. Includes a review of case studies that demonstrate the impact of the human resource functions in healthcare organizations.

• HPHM 4304 Management and Leadership in Healthcare Organizations (3:3:0,O)

  This course provides an overview of operations management and practical decision-making by analyzing the day-to-day operations for a healthcare supervisor. Identification of problem solving approaches to problems in personnel staffing, development, leading, directing, performance measurement, conflict, confrontation, and decision making.

• HPHM 4305 Fundamentals of Project Management (3:3:0,O)

  This course provides an introduction to methods for management and launching of capital projects. Topics include financial consideration, procurement, site preparation, contracting, scheduling, and acceptance for operational readiness.

• HPHM 4306 Healthcare Strategy and Marketing (3:3:0,O)

  This course covers the principles and application of marketing in healthcare delivery systems. Topics include the concepts and tools needed to conduct a community needs assessment, market research, and the creation of a business plan for the delivery of healthcare services.

• HPHM 4308 Principles of Organizational Behavior and Theory (3:3:0,O)

  This course offers an overview of group and organizational structures and dynamics that affect individual, group and organizational behavior. Topics include performance, job satisfaction, motivation, groups, decision-making and task design.

• HPHM 4311 Principles of Health Systems Policy and Management (3:3:0,O)

  This course provides a review of the healthcare system, both the public and private sector. It examines the system's organizational structures and the legislative, legal, and market impacts upon the current integrated delivery system. The course will review all levels such as healthcare systems (For-Profit and Not-For-Profit), inpatient facilities, hospital based services, outpatient services, home health agencies, sub-acute care facilities, and long term care. Topics include rural healthcare issues, areas designated as medically under-served and health professional shortage areas (HPSAs), legislation, healthcare operations, and regional networks.

• HPHM 4312 Health Insurance and Managed Care (3:3:0,O)

  This course examines principles of managed care and contemporary issues in the organization and administration of managed healthcare organizations. Topics include claims processing, prospective payment systems, coding, revenue cycle management, fraud and abuse, and recover audit contractors.

• HPHM 4313 Community Health Issues (3:3:0,O)

  This course provides a review of national, state, and local community agencies; preventive health services, public health, wellness, personal fitness, stress management, changing lifestyles, and analysis of national issues in the past 50 years. Includes a review of statistical principles used by management in the healthcare industry. Topics will cover community health in a defined population, determining prevalence rates, origins and causes, mortality and morbidity rates, and determining effectiveness of healthcare services.

• HPHM 4314 Quality, Patient Safety, and Risk Management in Healthcare (3:3:0,O)

  The course provides and overview of the principles of quality management and enterprise risk management, including the concepts of Lean, the high reliability organization, and outcomes management. Quality review organizations and accreditors, as well as evidence based risk practices will be included.

• HPHM 4315 Regulatory Requirements in Long Term Care and Current Concepts in Gerontology (3:3:0,O)

  This course provides an overview of the physical, psychosocial, cognitive, cultural, and environmental factors that affect a person as they age. Topics include financial and administrative issues that affect patient services, adaptive equipment, assistive technology, and community resources. Also presented is an analysis and application of regulatory requirements of certified and licensed long term care facilities.

• HPHM 4316 Integrated Delivery Systems and Organizational Relationships (3:3:0,O)

  An overview of the components and organizational issues of integrated delivery systems, the interaction of interdisciplinary staff composed of technicians and professionals, team building, product line service delivery and operational management in the clinical support service setting.

• HPHM 4317 Research Methods and Statistics in Healthcare (3:3:0,O)

  This course provides an introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics, quantitative and qualitative research designs and how to apply these for clinical and managerial operations in a healthcare organization.

• HPHM 4318 Healthcare Law and Ethics (3:3:0,O)

  This course provides an introduction to the regulatory, legal, and ethical issues related to the healthcare industry. Topics of study are: reimbursement issues, utilization review, privacy, patient rights, malpractice, and long-term regulatory issues; with regard to: federal, state, and local statutes.

• HPHM 4320 Long-Term Care Policy and Management (3:3:0,O)

  This course provides an overview of the nursing home industry and the managerial requirements associated with long term care institutions. Topics of study focus on an introduction to: state and federal regulatory aspects of facility management, healthcare delivery systems, reimbursement and human resources administration.

• HPHM 4321 Regulatory Aspects of Long-Term Care (3:3:0,O)

  Analysis and application of regulatory requirements in the daily operational environment of a certified and licensed long term care facility are covered. Topics in this course will include; Texas, Federal and JCAHO regulatory requirements in the care, architectural and life safety code compliance issues of long term care facility operations.

• HPHM 4322 Principles of Revenue Cycle Management and Budgeting in Healthcare Organizations (3:3:0,O)

  This course examines the revenue cycle process from the delivery of the service, the direct or third-party reimbursement processes and the overall auditing and compliance cycle. This operational process will be strategically linked in creating, operating and improving different types of budgets. Students will appy managerial and strategic decision-making techniques (while considering fiscal data, regulatory laws and policies) such as analyzing systems, incorporating organization goals, identifying performance issues, and exploring how budget systems impact employee and patient behaviors.

• HPHM 4323 Emergency Management, Disaster Prepardness/Response and Recovery in Healthcare (3:3:0,O)

  This course focuses on examining health needs and health care delivery methods to prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate impacts of crisis. Current and proposed federal, state, local, and private nonprofit disaster recovery methods are discussed. Further, this course addresses discussion of the cycle of planning, training, equipping, exercising and mission continuity processes as they relate to systems of health and wellness.

• HPHM 4324 Advanced Topics in Decision-Making and Leadership in Healthcare Organizations (3:3:0,O)

  This course reviews the complexities involved in the decision-making processes and the inter and intra-relationships among leadership theories and techniques. Students will consider the following concepts, as applied to healthcare organizations, to include but not limited to, systems thinking, resource allocation, prioritization, comparative analysis, time management, indirect/direct elements of risk/return an influence. This course will advance students' understanding regarding efficient and effective decision-making and the overall impact tactic, operational and strategic leadership decisions can have on an organization's overall effectiveness.

• HPHM 4331 Leadership in Healthcare Organizations (3:3:0,O)

  The course presents an overview of management theory and leadership principles. Topics include behavioral and managerial practices with emphasis upon interpersonal relations, problem solving skills, time management, stress management, and wellness.

• HPHM 4333 Fundamentals of Population Health (3:3:0,O)

  This course explores the fundamentals of population health by addressing distinguishing characteristics of populations defined by geography, diagnosis and/or point of care. It describes how clinical and non-clinical evidence is used to measure health-related outcomes, analyze patterns, communicate results, identify best practices and implement effective interventions.

• HPHM 4334 Principles of Health Economics and Policy (3:3:0,O)

  This course introduces the concepts of economic theory and analysis within the health services industry, focusing on healthcare consumption, supply and demand, healthcare resource allocation, and the impact of government intervention on the delivery of healthcare.

• HPHM 4337 Healthcare Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship (3:3:0,O)

  This course provides an overview of the momentum of change in the healthcare industry. Business trends will be explored, as well as, methods to critically evaluate the potential of innovation technologies, start-up companies, or business entities. Creative partnering through alliances, mergers, and acquisitions will be explored. Interaction with the TTU Innovation Hub and other TTUHSC related resources will occur.

• HPHM 4341 Advanced Interprofessional Case Study (Professional) (3:3:0,O)

  This course is the capstone course for the professional concentration. This course focuses upon written, oral, audio and visual communication skills as practiced with the scope of a healthcare leader or manager in their daily work. Students in this course will work as a member of an interdisciplinary team to develop a comprehensive plan for a new healthcare facility, clinic, product line or service. The final project will allow the student to demonstrate competency across various business domains with the BSHM program. Prerequisites include: HPHM 4302, 4303, 4304, 4311, 4313, 4314, 4317, 4318 and 4334.

• HPHM 4345 Advanced Emergency Medical Services Case Study (3:2:1,H)

  Focus on professional written and oral communication as practiced within the scope of emergency medical services. Develop audience specific written documents, including writing that is appropriate for a professional journal or conference, and prepare, deliver, and evaluate oral presentations.

• HPHM 4346 Advanced Medical Imaging Case Study (3:2:1,H)

  Focus on professional written and oral communication as practiced within the scope of diagnostic imaging. Develop audience specific written documents, including writing that is appropriate for a professional journal or conference, and prepare, deliver, and evaluate oral presentations.

• HPHM 4360 Special Topics (3:3:0,O)

  Guided independent research projects with focus upon a management problem in the clinical support service setting. Examples are assistive technology, early childhood intervention, grant writing, independent living centers, or rehabilitation services. Prerequisites: consent of instructor.

• HPHM 4361 Special Topics (3:3:0,O)

  Guided independent research projects with focus upon a management problem in the clinical support service setting. Examples are assistive technology, early childhood intervention, grant writing, independent living centers, or rehabilitation services. Prerequisites: consent of instructor.

• HPHM 4364 Long-Term Care Practicum (3:0:5-40,H)

  This supervised practical work experience, conducted in an approved long-term care facility, will prepare the student for a career as a Licensed Long Term Care Administrator through practical application of the didactic curriculum. Two semesters of this practicum are required to take the nursing home administrator licensure examination. Prerequisites: consent of the instructor.

• HPHM 4401 Fundamentals of Health Informatics and Data Analytics (4:4:0,O)

  A course in basic concepts and tools for collecting and analyzing data used by healthcare organizations. Basic processes of creating, maintaining, archiving medical information, and managing for legal requirements, security, privacy, and confidentiality will be explored.

• HPHM 4477 Case Study I-Strategic Management (Executive Concentration) (4:4:0,O)

  Students enhance their knowledge within the Healthcare field by application of the concepts, principles and tools acquired from the various healthcare management courses. Topics addressed include: financial analysis, industry analysis, internal analysis, competitive advantage, marketing, strategic analysis and planning.

• HPHM 4478 Case Study II Healthcare Analysis and Policy Development (Executive) (4:4:0,O)

  In this executive concentration capstone course, students apply their knowledge within the healthcare field by the ethical and innovation application of the concepts, principles and tools acquired from the various program courses. Students address: financial analysis, industry analysis, internal analysis, marketing, strategic analysis, planning, as well as, policy analysis and development. Students will be required to complete a guided independent research project and problem-based case studies. Prerequisites include: HPHM 4302, 4303, 4304, 4306, 4311, 4313, 4314, 4317,4318, 4334, 4401 and 4477.