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The Advanced Management Program in Healthcare from Emory Executive Education is a transformative learning experience that combines medical expertise with business management skills. The seven-month learning journey combines online and live online sessions to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the operational and management aspects of a healthcare organization and hone your strategic thinking and leadership skills. Designed by thought leaders from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, the Emory University School of Medicine, and Emory Healthcare, this program draws on their expertise in business management, healthcare management, patient care, and finance. This unique and innovative learning journey includes a five-day on-campus immersion in the heart of the Emory ecosystem, which will give you further insights into leveraging healthcare technology through sessions with industry experts, management simulations, and networking events, as well as a capstone project that transforms your theoretical knowledge into practical skills.

Introduces the framework of a value‐based healthcare delivery system, organized around four key components: (1) what is a value base framework for a delivery system, (2) the need for integrated care delivery at the practice unit, (3) creating system for outcome measurement and monitoring, and (4) the role of payers in encouraging value‐based healthcare delivery.

This course focuses on how to measure and use cost performance information in planning and controlling a healthcare organization's operations. You will learn to identify costs and benefits relevant for making economic decisions; estimate the costs of providing services and products to patients; assign cost and price services to yield a desired level of profits; use cost-volume-profit relationships to evaluate profitability and risk; create budgets to acquire and effectively allocate an organization's economic resources; investigate the reasons why budgets and actual results differ; and design management control and performance evaluation systems to ensure strategic alignment throughout the organization.

Using the healthcare value chain as an organizing framework, the module is organized around four key modules: (1) designing healthcare delivery systems, (2) capacity planning and decision making under uncertainty, (3) process failure, learning and quality improvement, and (4) new business models and innovations in healthcare.

Gain an understanding of tomorrow’s competitive landscape in healthcare characterized by regulatory uncertainty, confounded consumers, and the ever-shifting balance of power amongst payers, providers and pharma/devices. All these demand that our healthcare leaders be clear in their organization’s strategy and simultaneously excel at leading organizational change.

As a nurse, you are more than just a caregiver, an educator, and a patient advocate. You are the eyes and ears of your healthcare organization, making a critical impact on enterprise-level decisions. Consequently, the need for nurse leadership has soared to an all-time high, driven by a host of complex challenges, including a shortage of nurses, a rise in chronic disease, and an aging baby boomer population. The Nursing Leadership Certificate program from Emory Executive Education is designed and led by Emory’s foremost thought leaders in business and nursing leadership. Dane Peterson, former president and chief operating officer; Bob Dent, vice president of patient services and chief nursing officer; Trina Geyer, director of nursing leadership and development; and other Emory Healthcare leaders bring their vast experience and expertise in nursing leadership, healthcare and business management, patient care, and finance to the program. The five-month immersive curriculum is focused on providing the frameworks, skills, and experience you need to develop innovative healthcare delivery models and create a strategic vision to lead your team of nurses and your organization through any healthcare challenge.