Overview

Viterbo’s health care management degree completion program is an online program that allows students to complete a Bachelor of Business Administration degree using previously earned college credit, military credit, or credit for prior learning. Most students enter this program with 30+ prior college credits in business or health care disciplines. Health care management represents the study of business in health care settings, allowing students to build upon their practical experience and skills while expanding upon knowledge in legal and ethical issues, quality improvement, marketing, and economic aspects of health care.

Policy
  • All students pursuing the BBA degree must maintain a cumulative grade point average of 2.5 or higher (on a 4.0 scale) in the major requirement courses, and students must receive a letter grade of C (2.0) or higher in each of these courses. If a grade of CD or below is earned in any of these courses, the course must be repeated until a grade of C or higher is achieved. Students pursuing the business education major must maintain a 2.75 grade point average in all business and education coursework.
  • All transfer students seeking an undergraduate degree offered by the Dahl School of Business must earn a minimum of 15 credits of business coursework at Viterbo University.
  • Students completing a bachelor completion degree may not concurrently double major or double degree in a major offered as a traditional student major.
Learning Outcomes
  • Demonstrate mastery of management theories, principles, processes and skills, specific to the health care industry, to effectively lead and develop people in a health care setting
  • Apply principles of various business disciplines (including statistics, accounting, and finance) to address complex health care issues 
  • Analyze the health care policy and delivery systems that drive strategies toward affordability, access, and growth
  • Apply sound legal and ethical decision-making skills to effectively address issues that affect health care organizations
  • Demonstrate the use of health care informatics to support organizational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and clinical and managerial decision-making
  • Examine the current quality improvement tools that are used to improve patient care and increase patient satisfaction

The Servant Leadership Embedded Certificate is embedded within the Business Core curriculum. The certificate outcomes include the following:

  • Practice ethical decision-making
  • Communicate through storytelling
  • Develop contemplation and discernment
  • Understand how to build community and support the Common Good

Requirements

Admission Requirements: English Composition, Oral Communication
RLST-305 and six credits from Global Citizenship.
BUSL-401, EDUC-307, or NURS-476.
BUSL-400, EDUC-303, or NURS-340.
BUSL 400, EDUC 303, or NURS 481.
BUSL 309, EDUC 307, or NURS 462.
BUSL 305 (or MATH 130), EDUC 415, or NURS 315 (or MATH 130).

ECON 101 or 102, HMGT 306, 320, 330, 340, 375, 425, 445, BUSL 305, 308, 309, 400, SVLD 330, 430. (42 credits)

Complete a minimum of 30 upper division credits (300/400).
Complete a minimum of 120 college-level credits.
Addendum

Health Care Management (transfer agreement/degree completion) Major (Bachelor of Business Administration)

The Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree must have been earned after May 2006 for Western Technical College (WTC) graduates or after May 2013 for Chippewa Valley Technical College (CVTC) graduates. Students may not begin these specifically-articulated transfer programs or be considered a student in these programs until the AAS degree has been completed and documented on the technical college transcript. A student who did not complete the AAS degree could instead complete the requirements of the general major, and any completed courses of the AAS would count toward the major, but in order to come into this articulated transfer agreement program, the AAS must be completed prior to transfer to Viterbo. The student cannot be dually enrolled.  

  • Core curriculum – see core curriculum section of catalog
  • Major requirements (30 credits) – see below
  • Final degree requirements – a minimum of 120 college level credits, minimum of 30 credits at the 300/400 level

Transfer courses and waivers and/or substitutions could modify the required credit total in the core curriculum and major.

Western TC - Health Information Technology

BUSL 308, 309, HMGT 306, 320, 340, 425, SVLD 330, 430

Western TC - Medical Administrative Professional

BUSL 305, 308, 309, ECON 102, HMGT 306, 320, 330, 340, 375, 425, 445, SVLD 330, 430

Western TC - Medical Lab Technician

ECON 102, HMGT 306, 320, 330, 340, 375, 425, 445, BUSL 305, 308, 309, SVLD 330, 430

Western TC - Occupational Therapy Assistant

ECON 102, HMGT 306, 320, 330, 340, 375, 425, 445, BUSL 305, 308, 309, SVLD 330, 430

Western TC - Physical Therapy Assistant

ECON 102, HMGT 306, 320, 330, 340, 375, 425, 445, BUSL 305, 308, 309, SVLD 330, 430

Western TC - Radiography/span>

ECON 102, HMGT 306, 320, 330, 340, 375, 425, 445, BUSL 305, 308, 309, SVLD 330, 430

Western TC - Respiratory Therapy/span>

ECON 102, HMGT 306, 320, 330, 340, 375, 425, 445, BUSL 305, 308, 309, SVLD 330, 430

Western TC - Surgical Technology/span>

ECON 102, HMGT 306, 320, 330, 340, 375, 425, 445, BUSL 305, 308, 309, SVLD 330, 430

CVTC - Health Information Management and Technology/span>

ECON 102, HMGT 306, 320, 340, 425, BUSL 308, 309, SVLD 330, 430

CVTC - Health Navigator/span>

ECON 102, HMGT 306, 320, 330, 340, 375, 425, BUSL 305, 308, 309, SVLD 330, 430