A Guide to Leadership Styles in Healthcare
The best healthcare leaders are courageous innovators with servant hearts,” Dr. Bonar says. “They’re able to think in systems terms, but with a high level of emotional intelligence.
Guides
These guides are resources for aspiring and current healthcare administration professionals. They include scholarship databases, salary tables, conference schedules, and lists of the top degrees and careers in this field.
September 24, 2025
July 28, 2025
Fighting Bias in Healthcare: Classism & Care Access
Classism in healthcare is a pervasive issue that significantly impedes access to quality treatment and care. The socioeconomic status of individuals often dictates the standard and frequency of healthcare they receive. This systemic bias typically involves prejudices, attitudes, and actions favoring the higher socioeconomic classes while marginalizing those in the lower strata of society.
July 25, 2025
Five Emerging Careers in Healthcare Administration (2025-2026)
Healthcare administration is one of the fastest growing careers in the US. But in an increasingly complex and fragmented landscape, healthcare administration is becoming more of an umbrella term than a specific career.
July 15, 2025
Palomar Health’s Financial Crisis: Is Private Management the Answer?
Most MHA and healthcare MBA students who interview for internships and jobs with county medical centers and other state and local hospitals expect that they would work for such institutions as public employees following an offer. But if such facilities follow the controversial lead of California’s largest public healthcare district, public/private distinctions like those might soon become a lot more complicated.
July 3, 2025
Tuition Reimbursement: What MHA Applicants and Students Need to Know
The educational and career backgrounds of MHA students provide them with a unique set of marketable skills that may help them pay for their degree. Moreover, in an era when student loan financing has become increasingly unpopular, these skills can help MHA students rely less on student loans than students in other types of graduate and professional programs.
April 29, 2025
The Best Graduate Healthcare Degrees in 2025
Healthcare is currently the country’s largest employer, and jobs in healthcare are projected to be among the fastest-growing over the next decade. As the industry grows, so does the opportunity for a new career path.
April 7, 2025
Patients Not Told AI Drafted Messages From Their Doctors
Increasingly, doctors aren’t writing the first drafts of replies to those messages. At more than 150 health systems and medical offices across America, a new generative artificial intelligence function in MyChart now writes over a million reply drafts every month.
April 1, 2025
Steward Health: CEO Charged With Contempt of Congress After Defying Subpoena to Testify
The national media has been buzzing with coverage of Dr. Ralph de la Torre, the embattled former CEO of hospital industry giant Steward Health Care who stepped down in October 2024. In one of the most colossal failures of a hospital chain in American history, the Dallas-based for-profit Steward system declared bankruptcy the previous May.
March 19, 2025
Online MHA Programs Ranked by Affordability (2025)
To help students find affordable programs, we’ve outlined the top 20 most affordable online MHA programs in 2024-2025.