Healthcare Management
The Healthcare Management major is designed to provide academic skills and professional training through required internships. A typical person considering a career in healthcare management is an individual with a strong desire to help others, genuine concern for the welfare of his/her clients, and an ability to deal with people of diverse background in a challenging and rapidly evolving industry.
Rapidly changing demographics in U.S. and N.C., coupled with new advancements in information and medical technologies, complex regulatory environment, new public health policy initiatives/mandates, dynamism of healthcare delivery systems in both private and public sectors and the latest public attitude toward wellness in general and long-term health care in particular are among a number of healthcare industry key drivers that call for an increasingly larger number of clever healthcare management professionals that can simultaneously improve quality and efficiency of healthcare organizations nationwide.
