Fordham Westchester Launches Program of Workshops in Healthcare Administration

From Fordham University

WEST HARRISON, NY (January 2015) -- Fordham University School of Professional and Continuing Studies has announced a new series of six workshops in healthcare administration, “Intensive Experience in Healthcare Innovation,” designed to provide the skill sets and background necessary to succeed in today’s growing healthcare industry.

The workshops will be offered at Fordham’s Westchester campus in West Harrison as weekend intensives (Saturdays and Sundays), six hours per day (9 AM – 12 PM / 2 PM – 5 PM), 12 hours per workshop. Participants may enroll in one or more workshops and those completing all six will receive a certificate of completion. The workshops are designed for current healthcare middle managers as well as those who have transitioned into healthcare from other industries. The cost is $500 per workshop.

The Fordham Healthcare Workshop Series schedule is as follows:

March 21 & 22: Leadership and Critical Thinking in Healthcare covers critical areas of managing a healthcare organization including negotiation, organization management styles and methods of decision making with practical exercises with an executive management case study focus.

April 11 & 12: Healthcare Information Systems and Data Security provides an understanding of technology-based methods used for vital functions in various aspects of the healthcare delivery system. Participants gain a working knowledge of the cyberspace landscape and emerging global and local cyber threats. An overview of types of healthcare data and issues of data collection, use and storage are covered.

April 25 & 26: Healthcare Policy and Regulatory Issues examines past and current political, legal, technological and economic healthcare policy developments. Various methods of health services delivery and financing, regulation of the healthcare industry and overall impact on the population are covered.
May 9 & 10: Data Analytics provides the participant with an introductory capacity to identity and describe the structure and conduct of quantitative analytical methods. Data will be examined both qualitatively and quantitatively to determine patterns and trends with hands-on experience using typical analytical software packages.

May 30 & 31: Navigating the Healthcare System: Who Are the New Caregivers? This workshop introduces the new types of caregiver roles evolving in provider venues with a special focus on MDs, DOs, physician assistants, visiting nurses, CNAs, healthcare navigators and social workers. New technologies will be demonstrated that are changing the way home healthcare and other out-patient and non-hospital care are provided. The nature of aging as a natural process versus a chronic disease and its concomitant challenges will be reviewed.

June 13 & 14: Healthcare Marketing, Social Media and Ethical Advertising offers an introduction to the methods and strategies associated with healthcare marketing and patient information sources. The phenomenon of the “medicalization” of society will be explored. The workshop will concentrate on evaluating medical web content, ethical advertising and practical skills in medical and scientific writing.

For inquiries and to register for the Fordham Healthcare Workshop Series:

E-mail: healthcarepcs@fordham.edu | Phone: 914.367.3301

Fordham School of Professional and Continuing Studies
400 Westchester Ave., Rm. 209 | W. Harrison, NY 10604
914.367.3301

About Fordham University’s Westchester Campus
The Westchester campus conveniently located off I-287, I-684, and the Hutchinson River Parkway. The three-story, state-of-the-art building sits on 32 landscaped acres in West Harrison, NY. Fordham Westchester is home to the Fordham School of Professional and Continuing Studies, Graduate School of Business Administration, Graduate School of Education, and the Graduate School of Social Service. It is also home to four institutes: the Beck Institute on Poverty and Religion, Children FIRST, National Center for Social Work Trauma Education, and the Ravazzin Center on Aging.