Health Care Delivery

Catalog description

Health Care Delivery is a 3-credit course offered during the fall semester of the third year of the Doctorate of Physical Therapy curriculum and is designed to provide the student with the management theory and skills to use human resources effectively, understand the concepts behind cost control, finance, and entrepreneurship. The pedagogical approach of the course includes case studies and didactic lectures. Course content includes introducing the theory and practice of managing and developing employees, interviewing, developing job position descriptions, performance evaluations, conflict resolution, budgeting practices, financial reports, reimbursement concepts, guiding employees through change, marketing, business plan, quality assurance, outcomes management, risk management, and federal/state laws and legal issues.