Health Services Administration Newsletter

Graduate Program in Health Services Administration

Dr. Ida Schick 

  • The Program continues to attract qualified students. New student enrollment for the academic year beginning August 2009 was 42; and that for August 2010 was 38. Minority students comprised 9.5 % in 2009 and 15.7 % in 2010. Because of the negative impact of the economy residency searches were more difficult; but all students were successfully placed in residencies in 2010-2011. We expect the same results for residencies in 2011-2012; there is no indication this placement will change. 
  • The Advisory Board continues to support one scholarship for a qualified, first year full-time student and the Albers Grant for 2009, 2010, and 2011 continues to offer $9,000 to two, full-time, academically qualified students 
  • The 2009 and 2010 graduates were able to find employment not only within three months of graduation but within the first six weeks. 
  • The Health Administration Student Professional Society achieved 75% membership in 2009-2010. The 2010-2011 numbers will be available in February, the deadline for memberships. 
  • The international collaborative efforts continue to grow. The Program is in the process of developing an education/health care affiliation with De La Salle University, Angeles University Foundation and Manila Doctors Hospital in the Philippines. We anticipate a Health Care Symposium in the Philippines in fall 2011 and an International Certificate Program to be implemented shortly thereafter. 
  • Collaborative efforts continue on the local scene.
    • The Program in collaboration with the Theology Department has established a Master of Arts degree in Health Care Mission Integration. This is a 33 hour master degree with half of the hours spent in the H.S.A. program and half in the Theology Department.
    • The Program is beginning talks with the graduate program in Public Health at the University of Cincinnati with a view toward academic collaboration.
    • The Dean of the College of Social Sciences, Health and Education along with the Chair/Director of the Program is working to develop a dual degree, MHSHA/JD, with the NKU Chase College of Law.
    • Students in the MHSA program can take Informatics courses at NKU leading to a certificate in informatics and NKU graduate students in Informatics can take courses in the XU GPHSA program for a certificate in health care management.
    • There is a failed effort to work collaboratively with the College of Business to establish an executive degree. This proposal was initially developed by Dr. Ragu Tadepali before he left XU and had the full support of Dr. Mark Meyers, Dean of CSSHE, and the faculty and chair/director of the H.S.A. graduate program. The program continues in its efforts at collaboration.
    • The chair/director is working with the chair of the Psychology Department to revise the Certificate in Health Services Management for the Psy.D. doctoral students.
    • Sid Mitchell, executive?in?residence, is working with the H.S.A. faculty and Dean of the College to establish relationships in the Philippines with De LaSalle University, Manila Doctors Hospital and Angeles University Foundation and Medical Center. 
  • The Department of Health Services Administration is in the University has received approval for two undergraduate degrees:
    • a proposed Bachelor of Science degree in health services. This will include a minor in business with concentrations in either long term care or informatics;
    • the second Bachelor of Science degree proposed is an Honors degree which is a six?year program leading both to a Bachelor of Science degree and Master of Health Services Administration. Both programs have been approved by the College Curriculum Committee and are under discussion by the Board of Undergraduate Studies. 
  • Additionally, the Department is preparing a proposal for a Doctorate in Health Administration with a concentration in Leadership. 
  • The faculty members, Tom Ruthemeyer and Patrick Redmon, are working with Marla Phillips and Len Brzozowski of the XU Leadership Network. In 2010, they participated in a Med Con Conference at the Cintas Centre. The conference was quite successful ; the H.S.A. faculty members were well?received. Currently, the XU Leadership Network and the two H.S.A. faculty members are planning a second conference to focus on billing for pharmaceuticals and medical devices. 
  • $14 Million Capital Fund Drive. Leadership in a New Era of Health Care

    The Xavier Graduate Program in Health Services Administration is one of 78 accredited programs in the country; one of six accredited programs to require a residency for graduation; and listed as a number one program by Modern Healthcare Magazine two out of three years. The Program features are its values?based and practitioner?orientation. (See its faculty’s experience, its Advisory Board and its Executives?in?residence.) Continuing in its Jesuit roots and its tradition of ethics, values, and practice, the Program has launched a campaign to create two research centres. These centres will bring together research, practice and technology to focus on new ways of delivering the most comprehensive health care in an ethical manner. Additionally, the campaign includes three full?tuition scholarship and faculty development funds. These are to ensure highly qualified and diverse students as well as opportunities for faculty to undertake practice?oriented research that will enhance teaching as well as health care services. 
  • A Leadership Gift Committee composed of five members of the Program’s Advisory Board, Peter Owendoff and Jack Kelley of the Development Office, Ida Critelli Schick, chair/director of the department/program, and Christina Swift, Program Coordinator for Recruitment and Promotions are working with the Development Office, Gary Massa, VP for University Relations and Fr. Graham to implement the Capital Fund Drive. 
  • The components of the Capital Fund Drive are: 
    • Centre for Health Care Informatics and Endowed Chair. Goal: $5 million 

      This centre and its endowed chair will focus on research and bringing together experts in the development and implementation of national health care policy regarding information technology, its impact on delivery as well as financing of health care services. The endowed chair will do research, publish, give presentations, and develop conferences to this end. 
    • Centre for Health Care Leadership Ethics and Endowed Chair. Goal: $5 million 

      This centre will emphasize the integrative role of ethics in a health care enterprise and the impact that nations, state and local policies have on all segments of health care: access, delivery, quality, resources, management and finance. It will be the first centre in the US to focus on health care leadership ethics. This centre will engage with the Centre for Health Care Informatics, since informatics will have a central role in the changes in the delivery of health care in the near as well as distant future. National health care policy is being formulated with ethical issues prominent on the clinical side: genetics, cloning, end?of?life care, transplantation. There are equally important issues regarding access, financing, quality and safety, education, human resources, relationships among the segments of health care, acquisitions and mergers, technological developments, licensure and many others. This centre will ensure the integration of Jesuit values into the health care education and health care environment where our graduates will work. 

      The endowed chair will provide leadership, knowledge, expertise and credibility for the centre. The endowed chair will also undertake research, publications, and presentations, develop conferences and interact with the Centre for Health Care Informatics. 
    • Endowed Student Scholarships Goal: $2.5 million 

      This endowed fund will provide the only full scholarship to graduate students in the program. The faculty will award three full?tuition scholarships to exceptionally qualified students to help offset similar financial aid offered by competing programs. One of the three awards will benefit an exceptionally qualified minority student. These awards coupled with paid residencies will enhance the program’s reputation and appeal to qualified students. 
    • Faculty Development Goal: $1.5 million 

      This fund will assist faculty members in undertaking primary and secondary research to keep abreast of the changing health care environment. This fund will also assist in establishing research assistants to support faculty in their research and in procuring current research tools.