Opus College of Business

Executive Education

Prescription-Strength Management Education 

Through the coming decade, the health care industry will offer numerous advancement opportunities for those who are ready, willing and able to take on new challenges. Let the University of St. Thomas prepare you for your next role. You can get started right away.

Our challenging, relevant health care management programs will help you:

  • Gain fresh knowledge, insight and skills for a changing health care environment
  • Confidently lead positive changes in health care
  • Make wise, ethical business decisions on behalf of your organization
  • Improve performance and results
  • Get noticed – and rewarded

Health Care Leadership

Health Care and Medical Technology Management

Health Care UST MBA

Health care is moving at a fast pace – is your organization ready to take the lead?

The Certificate in Advanced Health Care Management can help ensure that your health care system stays healthy and growing amid an ever-changing health care environment. Health care professionals tell us that the most frustrating, time-consuming, challenging, and neglected part of health care is the business side. The University of St. Thomas, in partnership with the Minnesota Medical Group Management Association, has developed this leading-edge educational program to help health care professionals find proactive solutions to the challenging issues they face.

With the Certificate in Advanced Health Care Management, you can:

  • Adapt your leadership style to meet the changing needs in health care.
  • Improve your health care operations to boost productivity and quality.
  • Implement retailing tactics to maximize your ROI.
  • Take advantage of emerging applications in information technology.
  • Identify upcoming trends and policies that will affect the future of the health care industry.
  • Optimize your organization’s quality performance to successfully influence and manage public reporting.
  • Explore positioning strategies for today’s evolving health care environment.
  • Develop new human resources approaches to motivate employee performance.
  • Enhance your financial performance and thrive in a cost-restrained industry.

Find out how you can transform your health care system beginning September 2008 at the University of St. Thomas Minneapolis campus.

Physician Leadership College

Participants and health care organization leaders describe the benefits of the Physician Leadership College.

Dr. Patricia Huberty is a past participant of PLC.

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Did You Know?

  • Health care is the largest industry in the U.S.
  • National spending on health care is expected to grow annually by 6.7 percent until it reaches $4.3 trillion in 2017.
  • Health care is among the fastest-growing occupations.
  • Employment growth in health care ranges from 13 percent in hospitals to 55 percent in home health care services.

Health Affairs doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.2.w145
(Published www.healthaffairs.org. February 26, 2008)
Bureau of Labor Statistics (www.bls.gov)