HLCL 530 - Risk Management and Decision Making

3 credit hours
The health care environment requires a significant emphasis by health care leaders on managing risk and ensuring optimal decision making given the level of uncertainty and accelerated change occurring throughout health care. Health care organizations face significant liability and risk from legal, regulatory, biotechnical and quality related issues. Practical decision making frameworks and decision support models will be explored for the health care leader. Models presented will emphasize the legal aspects of relationships between health care organizations, governmental agencies, employees, affiliates and patients. Effective approaches to managing risk will be highlighted in case studies of successful health care leadership decisions.
Course Delivery Methods: TRA, WEB, BLD, ONL