Healthcare Organizations and Delivery

Catalog description

This course is designed to help students understand the complexities of the US healthcare delivery system. American health care delivery will be presented in the context of current developments in health reform with references to specific provisions of the Affordable Care Act of 2010. Specific topics will include components of the US Health care systems, health promotion and disease prevention, Medicaid, Medicare, inpatient facilities and services, managed care and integrated organizations, long term care, financing health services for special populations, cost, access, and quality care, health policy, Healthy People 2020 as well as the future of health services delivery.