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Park University Graduate School
911 Main, Suite 900
Kansas City, MO 64105
Tel. (816) 559-5637
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Mission

The Mission of Park's Master of Healthcare Leadership (MHL) is to prepare new generations of healthcare leaders to be committed to designing and delivering programs and services that meet the needs of healthcare consumers (patients) and their families, care givers (physicians, nurses and others), and the community.

Vision

Park University's Master of Healthcare Leadership (MHL) degree is designed to prepare learners for the healthcare challenges of a global society, by teaching them innovative approaches to healthcare delivery, management, and leadership.

Program Goals

Specifically, graduates of the program will be:

• Knowledgeable of the structure and organization of the health care system in the United States, and internationally. Graduates will be able to articulate the trend toward healthcare as an international service/commodity and to understand that healthcare organizations must compete internationally, based on price and quality, as perceived by the consumer.
• Committed to the principles of a consumer-driven and consumer-focused healthcare, empowering patients and families to take active leadership roles.
• Knowledgeable in the economics, payment, organization and delivery systems and competition of healthcare, nationally and internationally, and in the use of this knowledge to improve and pay for healthcare systems.
• Skilled in financial management, in healthcare settings.
• Able to market healthcare to consumers and other constituencies, and to strategically plan for consumer-centered international healthcare.
• Able to effectively communicate within an organizational setting and among organizations, nationally and internationally.
• Skilled in collecting, managing, mining, and analyzing healthcare data and making consumer data-driven decisions, including patient and family satisfaction data.
• Able to use statistics, quality improvement and research methodology, to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of decision-making.
• Knowledgeable in law and policy issues affecting healthcare and the need to balance diverse laws, standards, values, morals and cultural ethics.
• Competent to measure and utilize evidence-based outcomes and capable of instituting an effective quality improvement program.
• Aware of the health-related behaviors and needs of diverse populations (sociology of medicine and health in multi-cultural populations).
• Knowledgeable of the diverse, ethical, and professional standards in the healthcare and medical professions and capable of mediating professional differences.

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