Health Care Ethics, Law, and Governance

Catalog description

In this course, you will examine the ethical, legal, and governance issues confronted by health care administrators. You will analyze administrative decision-making related to complex dilemmas and contemporary health care situations. Components studied include the ethical issues surrounding the patient-caregiver relationship, high-tech medicine, confidentiality, contracts and reimbursement, chronic disease, aging, and dying; health care laws and the legal ramifications of patient care; governance structures in health care organizations; and the government, accreditation, and professional association oversight in health care.