ACEHSA Accreditation Report Cites Strengths
of Health Management Program
The Accrediting Commission on Education for Health Services Administration
(ACEHSA), the pre-eminent accreditation program for health management
programs, recently accredited EPH’s Health Management Program (HMP)
until 2009. Elizabeth Bradley, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Epidemiology
and Public Health and Director of HMP, says that the fact that ACEHSA
will not re-examine HMP for six years expresses its confidence in the
quality of the program. Programs are typically re-examined every 3-5 years.
ACEHSA’s report cited the culture of collaboration between Yale’s
School of Management and the School of Public Health as a “best
practice” in health management education. The collaboration was
among the strongest ACEHSA has seen, and one it would like to see replicated
throughout the country. Additional strengths of HMP highlighted in the
report include the strong effort made to recruit minority students, the
distinction of the HMP faculty as measured by grant support and research
publications, and HMP’s relationship with Yale-New Haven Hospital
(YNHH), which complements students’ academic education. Bradley
noted that the relationship between HMP and YNHH has been greatly strengthened
by the support of Joseph A. Zaccagnino, ‘70MPH, President and CEO
of both YNHH and Yale New Haven Health System.
The ACEHSA report cited one opportunity for improvement, the expansion
of law and ethics education in the HMP curriculum. Given the ethical and
legal challenges inherent in health care management today, the HMP faculty
now require a newly designed Law and Ethics of Health Care Management
class. Bradley noted that the teaching of law and ethics is an area in
which there is potential for future collaboration with Yale’s Law
School.
The ACEHSA accreditation places EPH in a position to influence the national
debate on improving health management education, including the identification
of competencies for the field.
“I think we are now positioned to have a national presence in health
management education. The unique combination of public health and business
curricula is innovative and is now becoming recognized as a very effective
way to educate the next generation of leaders in health care organizations,”
said Bradley.
Story by Christy Gordon based on personal interview with Elizabeth
Bradley, November 14, 2003.
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