Why this degree? Why the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management? Perhaps no industry today is evolving more quickly than health care. While opportunities for growth and improved patient care abound, competitive and regulatory realities, rapidly emerging technologies, financial imperatives and human resource management present numerous challenges. And while physicians, nursing managers and hospital administrators have clinical and subject-area expertise, they often lack the business acumen required to manage people, projects or processes. This degree is designed to provide these health care practitioners with the business knowledge, insights, skills and connections to bridge that management gap.
Health care is a dominant sector of the U.S. economy that is facing a tremendous challenge, tremendous change and tremendous governmental intervention, so the value of good management and good decision making is critical. Larry Van Horn Associate Professor of Economics Faculty Director, Master of Management in Health Care Executive Director of Health Affairs
Owen has one of the best, if not the best, health care programs in the country because it is so practical. We are surrounded by major CEOs who are nationally and internationally famous for creating new business models to serve patients. They’re neighbors, they’re friends, they’re frequent visitors to the program, they’re guest lecturers, they teach every once in a while. It’s like you’re growing up with these folks who are at the cutting edge of American health care. U.S. Representative Jim Cooper
We knew we needed a training program for mid-level managers to improve their knowledge and their sophistication.We had always sent a lot of employees out of Vanderbilt for course work. The Master of Management in Health Care was a way for us to invest in our own management team as well as our employees’ personal development. C. Wright Pinson, M.D./MBA Deputy Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs CEO of the Vanderbilt Health System
Adjunct Professor of Health Care Management
Our managers are interested in advancing their careers, and it’s a way for us to retain some of our top people. Investing in them will pay off not only in the skills they learn in the program but it will keep them with us. Jeff Samz
Master of Management in Health Care
The Vanderbilt Master of Management in Health Care. Just a few of the companies that have invested in students and offered Capstone Projects: Accretive Health Ascension Health BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Family Cancer Center HCA Huntsville Hospital System LifePoint Health Maury Regional Hospital Nashville Metro General Northcrest Medical Center St. Thomas Health Services Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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Bridge the management gap with the Vanderbilt Master of Management in Health Care. A one-year degree that empowers physicians, nurses and other clinicians and administrators to excel in leadership and management roles.
TRANSFORM HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONERS INTO BUSINESS LEADERS.
Today’s health care organizations demand managers who comprehend and value the intricacies of practice yet have the confidence, expertise and skills to build and manage people, programs and organizational initiatives. The Vanderbilt Master of Management in Health Care (MMHC) is designed to help you transform your high-performing health care practitioners and managers into the leaders you need to advance your organization. The program is especially valuable to your organization when you support a four- to five-member crossdisciplinary team that will learn to work across organizational boundaries and hierarchies for the benefit of the company. Through management core courses, health care industry-specific courses, leadership coaching and a health care strategy project, students in the Vanderbilt Master of Management in Health Care program gain the essential business knowledge and management skills necessary to effectively manage people, projects and processes. The unique program schedule ensures the highest quality educational experience without disrupting the day-to-day operations of your organization.
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