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.

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.

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.

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.