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The goals of the Bachelor of Arts in Healthcare Leadership are to prepare graduates who are able to:

  • Use multiple communication strategies that enhance positive human relationships considering both healthcare clients/customers and workforce personnel.
  • Demonstrate the ability to integrate both theoretical and experiential knowledge relevant to leadership in the healthcare environment.
  • Integrate ethical behaviors into healthcare leadership practice.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the healthcare environment that includes synthesis of the cost, access, and quality challenges and the ability to generate solutions to these challenges.
  • Demonstrate basic budgeting, outcomes measurement, and information management.
  • Demonstrate critical interrogation of positionality, recognition of implicit biases, as well as knowledge and application of anti-racism principles to promote health equity.

 

Mission:

To prepare students with the skills, knowledge and ability to pursue leadership careers in healthcare, and to provide students the foundation for life-long learning.

Vision:

Our HCL graduates will use multiple ways of knowing, social justice frameworks and innovative approaches to lead groups, communities, and systems to advance health equity.

Values:

Equity: The HCL program views equity as intrinsically linked to just-sustainability.

Collaboration: The HCL program values ethical and collaborative processes within intra-, inter-, and trans-disciplinary teams.

Knowledge(s): The HCL program honors all forms of knowledge, including previously marginalized or misunderstood ways of knowing (such as experiential and traditional knowledges).

Community: The HCL program endeavors to foster communities which are collaborative, sustainable, inclusive and welcoming, with the goal of optimizing the health of individuals, communities, populations and the environment.