The Department of Hospital Management at Philadelphia University offers a Bachelor of Science in Hospital Management – (Health Services Management) on Philadelphia campus. Undergraduate students majoring in Hospital Management are professionally prepared in the disciplines of community and health services management education. They demonstrate competence in planning, implementation, and evaluation of health promoting and health enhancing programs for individuals, groups, and communities. Also, are concerned with the relationships between the characteristics of the natural environmental and mental and physical health. This information is used to establish limits on pollutants that the environment can absorb without detrimental effects, to develop control technology, and to implement controls as necessary for the benefit of human population.
The undergraduate hospital management degree prepares students for the following career opportunities: long-term care administration, private sector, public health administration. Long-term care administration includes a wide spectrum of health care delivery involving the complete continuum of chronic care management and administration including: nursing home, rehabilitation, senior care, palliative care, specialized long-term chronic care, and mental health. The private sector includes many different types of primary care delivery management and administration. Careers in this track will focus on primary health care delivery in settings such as hospitals, outpatient clinics, physician practice management, managed care, health insurance, and pharmaceutical sales. The public sector includes all areas of public health management and administration. Career opportunities include public health departments at all levels; health agencies focused on risk populations such as senior care and Medicaid (Poor populations); and environmental health and/or community health agencies.