Mission Statement:
The mission of the University of Cincinnati's innovative on-line Master of Health Administration (MHA) Degree Program is to provide working professionals who might not have ready access to traditional educational routes with a high-quality experiential and practice oriented curriculum in healthcare management, preparing them to serve as innovative, transformative, ethical healthcare leaders within teams, organizations and health systems.
We offer a competency-driven, evidence-based curriculum which, by including both academics and practitioners as faculty, is adaptive to the ever-changing healthcare environment encouraging lifelong learning. Our on-line approach is designed both to expand access and to allow mid-level and other working health professionals to develop and enhance nationally recognized competencies. Our faculty are committed to discovery, integration, application, and teaching. They create an online learning environment that is research-based and service-oriented, and which assures the best possible educational experience for all students, including individualized learning paths when necessary.
Vision Statement:
The vision of the UC MHA program is to be acknowledged as a national leader in leveraging online educational technology to prepare future leaders for the ever-changing healthcare environment. The faculty have been nationally recognized for published and presented research.
Our graduates will be further proof of our efforts:
- their evaluations will guide us
- their efforts will be recognized by their supervisors, colleagues, patients, and organizations as characterizing curious, competent, and compassionate stewards of the public and institutional trust, and
- their performance will reflect honor upon their alma mater, their employers, and their profession
Values Statement:
The University of Cincinnati's Master of Health Administration (MHA) degree program values a conception of the healthcare leader as a true health professional, rather than soley a manager. In this, we are in strong support of the American College of Healthcare Executives' (ACHE) Code of Ethics, with its focus on the healthcare managers responsibilities to:
- the profession
- patients or others served
- the organization and employees
In our faculty we value:
- a commitment to teaching informed by research and/or practice
- a dedication to service, whether to university, profession, or community
- the understanding that our learners are adults who are working and living full lives while improving their education
- a cooperative, collegial approach that allows for the development and maintenance of an integrated practice-oriented curriculum