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PROGRAM INFORMATION

With Northern’s graduate certificate in Health Care Management, you’ll be ready to take on a leadership role in just about any healthcare environment. Leveraging your existing credentials, this one-year program provides an overview of the complex management and delivery systems we rely on. By foster

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PROGRAM INFORMATION

Academic Year :

2026-2027

Credential :

Graduate Certificate

Program Delivery :

Full-Time

Duration

:

1 Year

Length :

2 Semesters

Program Codes(s) :

H167 - Kirkland Lake Campus (KL)

H159 - Haileybury Campus (HL)

DESCRIPTION

With Northern’s graduate certificate in Health Care Management, you’ll be ready to take on a leadership role in just about any healthcare environment. Leveraging your existing credentials, this one-year program provides an overview of the complex management and delivery systems we rely on. By fostering effective leadership and problem-solving techniques, you can optimize day-to-day operations and outcomes for all stakeholders.

You’ll master the core concepts of care including ethics, safety, and patient rights. You’ll learn the fundamentals of medical terminology, and the IT systems that operate in healthcare environments. And finally, before you go onto a career with a consulting firm, nursing home, hospital, clinic, or public health department - you’ll wrap up everything you’ve learned with a custom project that focuses on leadership in healthcare.

The Healthcare Management Program is designed for both domestic and international students with experience in the health care field who are seeking to enhance their existing post-secondary credentials and looking to transition into management roles in emerging healthcare environments, within the Ontario and Canadian healthcare context.

Comprehension of patient needs, socio-cultural factors, behaviors and health services information are key focus areas of this program and will enable students to develop new skills in the areas of leadership, human resources management, conflict resolution, and strategic thinking.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

This program will groom students for management roles in emerging Healthcare environments. Emphasis is placed on leadership, ethics, patient care and communication. Comprehension of patient needs, socio-cultural factors, behaviors and health services information are key focus areas of this program.

Students will develop their skills and knowledge in order to become integral leaders and team members of a structured healthcare team. With growing diversity in the healthcare system, employment can be found in many settings, including:

  • Clinics, Consulting firms, Healthcare associations,
  • Hospitals, Nursing homes, Physician practices,
  • Mental health organizations, Public health departments,
  • Rehabilitation centers, Skilled nursing facilities,
  • Universities and research institutions.

Health Care Management

Program Outline 2026-2027

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Health Care Management

Program Outline 2026-2027

VOCATIONAL LEARNING OUTCOMES

  1. Build and maintain relationships with multiple stakeholders in the healthcare environment.
  2. Use language and terminology appropriately to communicate clearly, concisely, and correctly with multiple stakeholders in the healthcare environment.
  3. Practice within the legal, ethical and professional scope of practice in the province of Ontario as a member of the health care team.
  4. Use information management best practices to the creation, storage and maintenance of health care documentation and records.
  5. Create a vision for successfully managing change in order to attain an organization’s strategic goals.
  6. Manage human resources taking into consideration leadership preferences, organizational change issues, and ethics to inspire individual and organizational success.
  7. Consider all the elements of the health care milieu in Ontario including regulation, standards and funding considerations when making operational decisions.
  8. Develop and implement quality assurance and risk management processes in the operation of a health care environment.
  9. Use financial principles to support efficient allocation of resources in patient and family-centred strategies.

PROGRAM COURSES

The following reflects the planned course sequence for full-time offerings of the program. Programs at Northern College are delivered using a variety of instruction modes. Courses may be offered in the classroom or lab, entirely online, or in a hybrid mode which combines classroom sessions with virtual learning activities.

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Source: https://www.northerncollege.ca/uploads/Health-Care-Management-2026.pdf