Our Mission: The Baruch/Mt.Sinai Graduate MBA Program in Health Care Administration is dedicated to the graduate business education of practicing professionals in the health care industry. The Program seeks to advance student knowledge in essential business disciplines and to instruct students in the application of this knowledge to managerial issues in health care. Graduates will exhibit the flexibility required to cope with the rapidly changing health care environment and be able to function effectively in a wide range of settings and organizational forms. It is expected that Program graduates will attain senior positions within the field and will work in a wide range of health care organizations that reflect the diversity of the field and the diversity of populations to be served.

The Program has established a series of goals for itself and students. Upon completion of the degree our graduates will:

• Understand the structuring and positioning of health organizations to achieve optimum performance.
• Understand financial management of health organizations under alternative financing mechanisms.
• Learn the role of leadership and interpersonal communications skills in managing human resources and health professionals in diverse organizational environments.
• Achieve competence in managing information resources
  and collecting, analyzing and using business and health information in decision making.
• Understand and apply statistical, quantitative and economic analysis in decision making.
• Understand legal and ethical analysis applied to business
  and clinical decision-making.