Students will learn key principles of strategic management within a broadly-defined health care setting to include the ongoing planning, monitoring, analysis, negotiating, problem solving, and decision making necessary within a risk-based environment. The course examines strategic management and the role of managers at every level of healthcare organizations designed to meet organizational goals and objectives within healthcare enterprises including: public health organizations, physician practices and clinics, hospitals and health systems, agencies and service organizations, for-profit firms, and not-for-profits.