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? 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.

Tuition Reimbursement: What MHA Applicants and Students Need to Know 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.

The Best Graduate Healthcare Degrees in 2025 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.

Patients Not Told AI Drafted Messages From Their Doctors 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.

Steward Health: CEO Charged With Contempt of Congress After Defying Subpoena to Testify 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.

Guide to Service Line Structures in Healthcare Operations February 14, 2025

Guide to Service Line Structures in Healthcare Operations

Healthcare organizations must strategically structure their services and operate with an eye towards cost and resource availability. By utilizing a consolidated approach with a service line structure, organizations will garner benefits beyond just economies of scale through building up their stability for the future. In healthcare contexts, the term “service line” is a way of defining a specific line of business, often inclusive of operational, financial, and strategic attributes, and organizing that line of business with a governance structure.

Best Healthcare Administration Certifications (2025) February 13, 2025

Best Healthcare Administration Certifications (2025)

Professional certification in a particular area of healthcare administration not only proves that the holder is competent in a specialized area, it also shows one’s commitment to continued education, professional networking, and industry-recognized best practices.

Preventative Healthcare: A Healthcare Leader's Overview November 21, 2024

Preventative Healthcare: A Healthcare Leader's Overview

This essay establishes a basic framework for debating the merits of preventive care by exploring its primary components, proposed economic and societal benefits, barriers, and predicted future shifts.

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.