Accelerated Online Healthcare Administration Graduate Certificate

Essential Skills & Insights

Learn from expert faculty with real-world healthcare experience and develop your skills to lead high performing healthcare organizations —aligning finance, quality, and patient outcomes with data-driven, AI-enabled decisions.

• Healthcare Finance & Strategic Planning: Optimize service lines and capital plans with rigorous analytics.
• Data Analytics & Decision-Making: Turn clinical and operational data into faster, smarter actions.
• Ethics & Regulatory Compliance in Healthcare: Embed patient-first ethics and stay audit-ready across regulations.
• Quality Patient-Centered Care: Develop the skills to operate complex care services, manage service lines, and promote quality patient outcomes.rses in the Lindenwood University Accelerated Online MBA program prepare you to lead in a world where innovation and AI are reshaping every industry.

AI-Powered Learning, Real-World Impact

Our accelerated online programs integrate opportunities to engage with Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a powerful tool for learning and career preparation. While not required, students can choose to use AI in ways that build authentic skills and reflect how businesses are leveraging it across industries. We highlight ethical and responsible use, ensuring that students develop the judgment to apply AI appropriately. This approach helps graduates enter the workforce with both technical knowledge and a clear understanding of AI’s role in their discipline.

Careers in Healthcare Administration

A Healthcare Administration Graduate Certificate provides a fast track for professionals looking to expand their leadership opportunities in healthcare without committing to a full degree program. Whether you’re entering administration from a clinical background or strengthening your management credentials, this certificate builds the skills you need to step into supervisory and mid-level roles across healthcare settings.

• Healthcare Supervisor — Median salary: $78,760
  Manage teams within clinics, hospitals, or specialized departments, ensuring smooth daily operations and staff coordination. Supervisors are often the link between frontline care providers and upper management.
• Practice Manager — Median salary: $96,400
  Oversee medical practices, outpatient centers, or specialty clinics by managing budgets, hiring, and regulatory compliance. Practice managers ensure that patient care is delivered efficiently and profitably.
• Health Services Coordinator — Median salary: $70,000+
  Support program planning, compliance, and patient services within healthcare organizations. Coordinators are critical in keeping projects aligned with organizational goals and industry standards.

AI in Healthcare Administration

Certificate holders gain exposure to how artificial intelligence and data tools are transforming healthcare operations—from streamlining scheduling and patient flow to supporting data-driven decisions in budgeting, staffing, and quality improvement.

Admissions Requirements

For admission to your Accelerated Online Healthcare Administration Graduate Certificate, simply complete the 2 step application process.

1. Complete the Graduate Admissions Online Application by visiting my.lindenwood.edu/register
2. Request official transcripts from your undergraduate institution(s) showing a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or higher.
   
   Only transcripts with the final degree posted are required if you attended multiple institutions.
   
   Request your official transcript to be sent directly to Lindenwood University Accelerated Online via one of the methods below:
   • Electronically to: [email protected]
   • By Mail to:
     Office of Admissions
     Lindenwood University Accelerated Online
     8205 S Priest Dr #11480
     Tempe, AZ 85284
   • By Fax to: 480-393-1826

Curriculum Overview

The Lindenwood University accelerated online Healthcare Administration (HCA) Graduate Certificate prepares individuals for leadership opportunities in the healthcare industry. This HCA certificate program explores key aspects of organizational oversight in healthcare in areas from quality patient care outcome, value-based reimbursement, health information management, public healthcare administration, and healthcare marketing and strategic management and prepares individuals for leadership and management in healthcare organizations.

Certificate Coursework – 15 Credit Hours

Issues in Public Healthcare Administration

Public health is concerned with threats to the overall health of a community based on population health analysis. Students will learn about public health from both a global and national viewpoint as well as additional topics of disaster preparedness, public policy and research. Disease prevention via behavior and environmental modification along with the cost effectiveness and benefits of public health interventions and technology use will also be reviewed.

Medical Records, Ethics and the Law of Health Information

This course reviews the accountability for the protection and dissemination of healthcare information and is an invaluable resource for students and practitioners across the health disciplines. This course provides an overview of health information HIPAA Privacy and Security rules, and Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, and the growth in the utilization of electronic record systems. It introduces other laws and organizations that are critical to the management and protection of health information as well as basic concepts such as compliance, uses of information for coding, and cybersecurity. Standards for conduct and ethical uniformity of practice for the Health Information profession and ethical decision-making matrices will be discussed as a guide to understanding the complexity of solving ethical problems.

Quality Improvement and Management in Healthcare Organizations

This course reviews the current healthcare system, history of quality, and quality issues specific to health care industry. Students will discuss the integration of quality into the strategic planning process. Students will understand the strategic role of quality in the American health care system. Students will learn domains and dimensions of quality and their integration into operational activities into the healthcare organization and a structured approach for reporting quality performance at multiple levels of the organization. Students will learn that there are parallels between financial performance and quality performance management.

Quality Improvement and Management in Healthcare Organizations

This course provides the student with the ability to look at developing a strategic plan in a changing environment with changing consumer demands. Additionally, students will discuss healthcare marketing and health promotion applications used in various types of Healthcare organizations.

Healthcare Finance and Accounting

This course will cover a broad range of topics to include an overview of the healthcare system and evolving reimbursement methodologies; healthcare accounting and financial statements; managing cash, and billing and collections; and an analysis of financing major capital investments. Budgeting and performance measurement and pricing will also be reviewed. Students will discuss production analysis, cost measurement, and internal reporting concepts that are imperative to making informed management decisions.

Program Length Details

Lindenwood University’s (LU) accelerated online programs offer you choice and flexibility to support your education journey. Time to complete a master’s degree can vary based on course load, transfer credits, and individual pacing. You will tailor a course schedule that keeps you in the driver’s seat

• Accelerated Courses: LU accelerated online programs offer 10 5-week terms per year. By enrolling in two courses per term, you can potentially begin and complete your HCA graduate certificate in 6 months.
• Frequent Start Dates: LU offers multiple start dates throughout the year so you can begin your studies when you are ready allowing you to graduate sooner.
• Personalized Degree Plan: LU academic advisors will work with you to tailor your degree plan to support your education goals while balancing your personal and professional responsibilities.