From the Program Director

Welcome to the Army-Baylor Graduate Program in Health and Business Administration! We have been serving the Federal Health System by providing high quality graduate education and research through our affiliation with Baylor University for more than half a century. Our strategic partnership with Baylor and the excellence exhibited by our faculty, students, and alumni have enabled us to develop one of the most highly regarded health administration programs in America.

We hope that you find the information provided here to be informative and valuable. If you require additional assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us.

LTC Lee W. Bewley, Ph.D., FACHE

Program Philosophy

Army-Baylor MHA\MBA Opening\Closing Ceremony, 27 June 2008:

"We all exist in this world with veils of ignorance. Perfect information and complete understanding are brilliantly elusive in the process of leadership and management.

Graduate education and research in Health and Business Administration provides the opportunity to peel back the veils of ignorance to see problems and opportunities more clearly; to enhance the ability to explain and predict phenomena in the market comparatively better than the competition. In our domain, this means that we can make our country safer and more secure by competently applying concepts and principles of management and health administration as we perform our duty."

Mission

To enhance the Federal Health System through excellence in Teaching, Research, and Community Service.

The Program exists as a strategic asset for the respective Army, Navy, and Air Force medical services as well as the Veterans Health Administration and other federal health agencies. Our curriculum, based on the Joint Medical Executive Skills competency model, enlarges the field of talented federal healthcare executives by providing high-quality, accredited graduate education and research in management and health administration.

Vision

We will be America's leading graduate degree producing program among top-tier health administration programs.

The Federal Health System exists as the nation's largest healthcare system. The dynamic, contemporary processes of strategic human resource management require that complex organizations have access to leaders that are appropriately developed to serve in positions of increasing authority and responsibility. Thousands of federal health staff, including administrators, physicians, nurses, and allied health providers, exist as potential candidates for graduate management and health administration education with the potential to assume increasing roles of leadership and responsbility as healthcare executives. The Program will strive to meet its share of this institutional need by leveraging the faculty, facility, and budget resources provided, and that can reasonably be procured, to provide top-tier MHA\MBA education to as many qualified federal health students as possible.

Values

Leadership, Scholarship, Integrity, Professionalism

The essential elements of our Program's existence are manifest in our values. The Federal institutions that we serve are enduring examples of selfless service to the country and its citizens. Our Program extends the theme of selfless service by producing well-developed graduates who are ready to pursue positions of leadership and to serve as role models\mentors in our health system.

Theme

Educating the Next Generation of Federal Health Executives

We expect that our graduates will continue to be the Senior Service Executives, Flag Rank Officers, Commanders, Chiefs, Directors, and Administrators who provide leadership in the practice of management and health administration.

Program Overview

The Army-Baylor University Graduate Program in Health and Business Administration is located at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas. The two-year program consists of a didactic phase and a residency phase. During the 12-month didactic phase at Fort Sam Houston, Army-Baylor students complete 60 hours of graduate coursework toward a Master of Health Administration (MHA), or alternatively, 71 hours to be applied to a joint MHA/MBA degree. Students within the MHA program may opt for a contentration in Human Resources for which 9 credits of requisit coursework would be applied.

The residency, also 12 months, provides students an opportunity to integrate graduate management/health administration concepts and principles in an applied setting under the mentoring supervision of a highly qualified preceptor. Residents gain in-depth exposure to various organizational departments and committees, and complete a Graduate Management Project (GMP) to resolve a challenging problem confronting the organization.

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Army-Baylor Program Overview Briefing