Benefits of a Temple Degree
Healthcare Management at Temple - Quality & Value!
Congratulations on your decision to explore graduate study in healthcare management. Healthcare management offers diverse, challenging and rewarding career opportunities.
The management of healthcare is different than general business management. Healthcare has it's own culture, own dynamics and involves a special passion and concern that makes it both intellectually fascinating and emotionally rewarding.
Graduate Degrees in the healthcare management prepare students to manage in this environment, understanding in depth what it means to develop integrated delivery systems, manage healthcare risks, design systems to improve the quality of care and to respond to the special financing and marketing challenges in the healthcare environment.
The Temple Program offers some very special advantages:
- Ranked among the top 35 in the nation by U.S. News and World report.
- AACSB and CAHME Accredited Master of Healthcare Management, the basic entry credential for most upper level positions in health care management.
- The first established graduate program in the region (1968) with the region's largest alumni network.
- An award winning full time faculty with a wide array of industry as well as academic experience.
- The resources of one of the highest ranked technology MBA programs in the country.
- Assistance with residency and career placements.
- Access to a rich array of curricular and extra-curricular activities that will keep you abreast of changes in one of the largest and most dynamic health care markets in the nation.
- Executive level mentors
- Alumni networking with in excess of 800 alums
- Healthcare professionals who interface with our program and students
- Active Student Organization (Health Administration Students of Temple University or HASTU) with affiliation with the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE)
Why The Temple Master of Healthcare Management?
Temple University
Temple University includes more than 32,000 students in its 16 schools and colleges, including schools of Law, Medicine, Podiatry, Dentistry and Allied Health. The Temple Health System is a major provider of health services in the region; healthcare management students have the opportunity to engage in a variety of projects and other experiences related to this system.
Temple's Fox School - National and International Recognition
The Fox School of Business and Management's excellence has been recognized nationally and internationally. To see our latest awards and rankings go to:
Fox School Rankings
In October 2001 Forbes Magazine ranked our MBA program in the top 75 in the world, and Financial Times ranked our Executive MBA program at 32 in the world.
The Healthcare Management Program Quality
The Temple Healthcare Management Program is located within the Fox School of Business and Management. Our Graduate Healthcare Management Program, the nation's first accredited program of its kind, is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME). The Temple Healthcare Management Program is one of a minority of graduate programs in healthcare management that are dually accredited both by the CAHME and the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). In addition, our program is ranked as one of the top 30 in the nation for graduate study in healthcare management and is one of only two nationally ranked programs in the Philadelphia area.
Combining the skills of a faculty with strong professional and academic backgrounds in healthcare management and health economics, the Healthcare Management Graduate Programs prepare you for responsible positions in the healthcare field through an array of practical programs designed for healthcare professional as well as those new to the healthcare environment. You will be prepared to move directly into positions of responsibility where your newly acquired skills are in high demand.
Convenience
We respect the diversity of background and goals our students bring to the Graduate Programs in Healthcare Management. The business foundation courses may be completed through coursework at our new technologically advanced Alter Hall on Temple’s Main Campus with many business courses available at our Center City, Ambler and Fort Washington campuses. We also offer a complete program of courses in the late afternoon and early evening at the University's center city campus. Temple University Center City (TUCC) is state of the art graduate education facility located in the heart of downtown Philadelphia at 1515 Market Street. This provides convenient access to working professionals as well as full-time students. Public transportation takes you essentially right to the door of the campus and discounted parking is also available.
Temple University Health Administration Alumni Association
The Temple University Healthcare Alumni Association (TUHMAA) represents over 800 graduates whose studies were in the areas of healthcare management and finance. TUHMAA is an active organization that works in collaboration with the Fox School Alumni Association and other regional and national professional organizations such as the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Healthcare Leadership Network of the Delaware Valley.
Regional Resources - The Philadelphia Region
Healthcare is a 100 billion dollar industry in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Region that provides an unrivaled teaching laboratory for healthcare management education. Its five medical schools and more than thirty teaching hospitals provide a portion of the education for one out of every five physicians currently practicing in the United States. Major international pharmaceutical firms, biotech companies and medical software developers make their headquarters in the Philadelphia area.
The region has also served as seedbed for much of the innovation in managed care, risk contracting and long term care redesign in the United States. Surrounding all of this is an openness and teaching ethic that permits students access to the rich clinical material of healthcare management. These materials are used in the program's case studies, consulting projects, work-study arrangements and residency opportunities.
In addition, Philadelphia is located in the center of the Northeast corridor. The city is almost equidistant between the two centers guiding the transformation of the health delivery system in the United States; the nation's investment and financial center in New York City and its political and public policy center in Washington, DC.
Integrating Regional Resources into The Healthcare Management Programs
Temple's Healthcare Management Program is the oldest such program in the region with more than eight hundred graduates largely concentrated in the Northeast population corridor. This geographic concentration enables us to support a vibrant, active alumni association lending itself to a myriad of networking opportunities within the healthcare system.
We have structured the program to take full advantage of the uniquely rich array of healthcare resources in the Philadelphia region. We utilize these resources to enhance your traditional class work with live case studies, guest lectureres in the classroom, real working projects, the Summer Administrative Residency Program and Management Grand Rounds. Our large alumni and preceptor network are actively involved in all of these program initiatives.
The program is part of the Department of Risk, Insurance and Healthcare Management. It is the first such department to be created. This highly integrated department is a response to the widely acknowledged convergence between risk management/insurance and healthcare delivery. As this convergence continues, this combination of resources for a program will become increasingly important.
The Center for Healthcare Research and Management (CHRM)
The Center for Healthcare Research and Management is part of the Department of Risk, Insurance and Healthcare Management. Graduate students benefit from the Center through its research, teaching, training and partnerships.
Mission: The Center for Healthcare Research and Management's (CHRM) primary mission is to serve as a regional resource for the Greater Philadelphia Metropolitan region's healthcare providers and managers. The CHRM resource base will include research, education, problem solving and innovation in the organization and financing of health services. CHRM's secondary focus is on the continued improvement Temple's of graduate business education in healthcare management and finance. The program's five experienced, full-time faculty, whose research, teaching and consulting have received awards and national recognition, enrich the classroom experience for students.
Goals: CHRM's goals are to assist providers in establishing more cost effective healthcare services and healthcare delivery and in meeting the critical health system objectives of population health improvement. CHRM also assists in the education of potential healthcare managers so that these future healthcare practitioners are schooled in both patient health production and the cost effective design and delivery of healthcare systems. Partnerships with noted, key healthcare providers in the Philadelphia region provide the connections for accomplishing these goals.
CHRM provides the Philadelphia region with readily available resources including:
- Research in Health and Healthcare Management
- Healthcare Management Training
- Student education and residency experiences
- Full-time faculty members who serve as director and associate director of the Center, and in turn provide links to the Temple faculty community.
A Brief Look At Career Paths
Career paths vary depending on the personal preferences of the individual student. Since our faculty has experience working and consulting in the healthcare sector of the economy, they are an excellent source of information and guidance about career paths. When you are admitted to the program, you will be assigned a Healthcare Management Faculty Advisor who will help you to plan an efficient completion of your degree and guide you in your career choices.
Some traditional career paths include but are not limited to:
- Hospital Management
- Practice Management
- Network Development
- Consulting
- Government Agencies
- Third Party Payers
- Long Term Care
- Community Health
- Managed Care
Some of the skill you will learn will help to improve critical aspects in the healthcare administration environment such as
- Service effectiveness
- Cost control
- Risk contract management
- Project management
- Health care consulting endeavors
- Organizational line management
- Marketing
- Third party reimbursement application
- The interface between the clinical and administrative healthcare management
- Financial and capital management
- Quality and Risk Management
- Patient Satisfaction