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.

Online MHA Programs Ranked by Affordability (2024-2025) October 2, 2024

Online MHA Programs Ranked by Affordability (2024-2025)

To help students find affordable programs, we’ve outlined the top 20 most affordable online MHA programs in 2024-2025.

Core Competencies for Healthcare Leaders (Part 2) September 19, 2024

Core Competencies for Healthcare Leaders (Part 2)

Importantly, interprofessional collaboration can also provide an opportunity for individuals from historically less advantaged groups to begin building the types of professional relationships that are critical to reaching the highest levels of leadership within an organization. This promulgates diversity up through the chain of management in a more organic way.

Core Competencies for Healthcare Leaders (Part 1) August 30, 2024

Core Competencies for Healthcare Leaders (Part 1)

Mastering the array of skills needed to effectively navigate and manage the people, processes, and tools at play is crucial for gaining and retaining a competitive edge. This three-part essay series summarizes important areas in which rising healthcare leaders should focus their efforts as they work to develop their essential skills and build out their knowledge base. This first essay will cover digital literacy & technological proficiency, patient-centered care competencies, and value-based care expertise.

Telehealth Home Care for Hospitalized Patients Gains Momentum on Capitol Hill August 8, 2024

Telehealth Home Care for Hospitalized Patients Gains Momentum on Capitol Hill

Through a surprising May 2024 feature article in Politico, a broad audience of Americans learned for the first time that it’s now possible to provide hospital-quality care to a substantial proportion of recovering inpatients at home. What’s even more surprising is that hospitals are treating some of these patients at home for acute conditions.

UnitedHealth CEO Grilled by Congress About Change Healthcare’s Crisis July 26, 2024

UnitedHealth CEO Grilled by Congress About Change Healthcare’s Crisis

Congressional leaders in the House of Representatives and the Senate unloaded blistering criticisms at Change Healthcare’s parent company UnitedHealth Group during a pair of hearings on Capitol Hill in May 2024. At issue was UnitedHealth’s management of the February cyberattack on its subsidiary Change Healthcare.

Did Hackers Who Attacked Change Healthcare Collect $22 Million in Ransom? April 30, 2024

Did Hackers Who Attacked Change Healthcare Collect $22 Million in Ransom?

Although students in MHA and healthcare MBA programs learn a vast assortment of managerial strategies, it’s unlikely that any of these programs would have taught them how to manage through the kind of catastrophic cyberattack that shut down Change Healthcare—and much of the U.S. healthcare industry.

Palomar Health’s Financial Crisis: Is Private Management the Answer? April 16, 2024

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.

U.S. Healthcare Spending by Sector: What to Know March 22, 2024

U.S. Healthcare Spending by Sector: What to Know

In the first article of this series, we looked at how the U.S. healthcare sector is measured, including the entities responsible and their methodology. This piece details each activity that comprises the enormous U.S. healthcare sector. We can group these into two major categories: healthcare services and goods, and public and private spending for healthcare and related initiatives. These categories can have their size measurably impacted by three powerful forces: population growth, healthcare inflation, and technological advances.

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.