
Healthcare facilities don’t run themselves. Hospitals, outpatient operations, psychiatric institutions, and other organizations rely not only on doctors, nurses, and technicians but also on business-minded professionals who handle personnel and financial management. Healthcare professionals learn how to treat patients and manage illnesses, but it’s not their responsibility to balance budgets, run information systems, or lead these organizations, some of which employ hundreds of people. It takes managers and administrators, whose education combines business principles with knowledge of the healthcare landscape, to fill those roles. Healthcare management and healthcare administration professionals have similar work environments but different duties in the healthcare […]