Organizational Management -
Graduates of Grand Canyon University’s Master of Science in Health Care Administration with an Emphasis in Health Care Quality and Patient Safety program will develop skills necessary to produce optimal systematic efficiencies for a variety of health care models.

• Analyze the impact of various stakeholders on health care policy formation and structures.
• Differentiate among various forms of governance.
• Examine measures of current and pending legislation and the impact on health care consumers, organizations, and systems.
• Apply change management theory to provide the perspective, authority, and skills required to support effective transformations.
• Describe reporting requirements for the health care marketplace and their impact on management strategies.

Health Care Quality and Safety -
Graduates of Grand Canyon University's Master of Science in Health Care Administration with an Emphasis in Health Care Quality and Patient Safety program are prepared to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize quality and safety data in order to develop improvement initiatives. Graduates are also prepared to effectively integrate project and change management principles in achieving successful outcomes within health care organizations.

• Identify, mitigate, and monitor quality and safety opportunities.
• Use process improvement principles to design quality and safety initiatives.
• Interpret data in order to identify quality and safety improvement opportunities.
• Use systems thinking in developing a change management strategy.
• Develop evaluation strategies to monitor and modify quality and safety initiatives.