HLSC 323: Bluford Healthcare Leadership Institute Phase I

Course Description

This course is a leadership development program designed to expose students to dynamic leadership principles while analyzing challenging issues in today’s healthcare landscape with leading national and local executives in the field. Topics covered include social determinants of health, delivery of healthcare in the U.S., for profit and not for profit healthcare systems, public health, public policy, and health law. The course includes site trips to an urban core safety net hospital and its behavioral health department, a community health center, and a healthcare informational technology corporation among others. Students will need to be accepted into the Bluford program to take this course.