MHAOnline.com Features - What's Happening in Healthcare Administration?

This features section explores career paths, professors to know, industry changes, and other forces shaping the experience of online MHA students. These features cover the realities of pursuing an online degree, including applications tips, internship requirements, scholarship prospects, and advice for finding a job upon graduation.

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A Day in the Life of a Hospital CEO - An Interview with Dr. David Pate March 18, 2024

A Day in the Life of a Hospital CEO - An Interview with Dr. David Pate

Being the chief executive officer of a hospital means being part business leader and part politician, requiring a blend of diplomacy, advocacy, business management, and financial sense. And the stakes of this role aren’t just profit and loss, but life and death.

The Best Graduate Healthcare Degrees in 2024 February 16, 2024

The Best Graduate Healthcare Degrees in 2024

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.

Guide to Healthcare Leadership Conferences 2024 February 15, 2024

Guide to Healthcare Leadership Conferences 2024

Healthcare leadership conferences are nodes of knowledge that act as temporary centers of excellence. It’s here that industry leaders get together to discuss their challenges, opportunities, and research on the topics that matter most.

Measuring the Healthcare Sector: Who, What, Why? February 2, 2024

Measuring the Healthcare Sector: Who, What, Why?

Alongside HHS and still within the Department of Commerce, one finds the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The BEA is responsible for producing economic statistics in general. They contribute to measuring healthcare spending as part of their calculation of GDP as a whole—the healthcare sector just happens to entail one-fifth of that total amount. They coordinate closely with NHEA and CMS on these calculations.

Greening the Healthcare Sector: How Hospitals Can Reduce Emissions January 23, 2024

Greening the Healthcare Sector: How Hospitals Can Reduce Emissions

In late 2015, nearly 200 governments worldwide signed a landmark action plan known as the Paris Agreement. After decades of blame-shifting, disorganization, and avoidance, there was finally a formal acknowledgment of the shared nature of climate change and a unified effort toward tackling the mounting crisis.

What’s an MHA Case Competition? Tips & Strategies January 16, 2024

What’s an MHA Case Competition? Tips & Strategies

Case competitions deliver outstanding opportunities for healthcare administration students to showcase their skills and knowledge—so much so that students might feel surprised when they first learn about all the value these events offer.

Medical Mistrust: Repairing the Damage from Negative Experiences January 9, 2024

Medical Mistrust: Repairing the Damage from Negative Experiences

The American healthcare system has a problem with trust. According to the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), research has shown a significant decline in physicians’ trust in healthcare leaders during the Covid-19 pandemic and notable differences between how physicians and the public perceive trust. Further, experiences of discrimination also negatively affect trust in US healthcare.

Top Health Administration Scholarships in 2024 December 15, 2023

Top Health Administration Scholarships in 2024

The cost of higher education continues to rise, forcing students to take on a considerable amount of debt to fulfill their dream of getting a quality education. Fortunately for students in health administration, there is a growing number of scholarship opportunities.

Healthcare: A Business, a Right, or Both? December 12, 2023

Healthcare: A Business, a Right, or Both?

The debate over whether healthcare should be treated as a business or a right has gone on for decades. Both sides have a similar end goal, and that is for our nation to boast a healthy population of generally productive individuals without bankrupting itself in the process. The disagreement is mostly in how to achieve the goal.