Healthcare Leadership & Administration Certificate
Deepen Your Healthcare Leadership Skills. Move Into Healthcare Administration.Online | Complete Within 1 Year | Certificate for Academic Credit
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
Move into Healthcare Leadership & Administration
Our HLA Certificate is designed for healthcare professionals looking to gain the education to enhance their administrative and leadership career opportunities. Build the skills and knowledge you need to move into a leadership or administrative role in healthcare.
Within the certificate program you will learn skills and behavior management strategies that promote patient-centric culture and help navigate individuals through a wide range of dynamic healthcare organizations including inpatient, outpatient, ambulatory care, community-based, and integrated systems. You’ll apply concepts and theories to authentic real-world situations to best prepare individuals who want to become healthcare administrators and leaders who deliver high-quality healthcare.
Increase Training & Development as a Current Leader or Admin
Are you already in a leadership or admin position in healthcare? Our HLA Certificate will increase your current leadership skill set with relevant healthcare leadership and administrative skills taught through meaningful and purposeful class assignments. You will be able to immediately apply what you learn to your current leadership situation. The HLA Certificate is a great resource and option to support continuing training and development.
Some of the skillsets you will develop further include:
Building, adapting, and improving healthcare organizations to meet the changing needs of healthcare communities
- Integrating leadership theory into day-to-day administrative practices
- Mediating and managing communication at every level within an organization
- Collecting and critically analyzing research and data
- Integrating current literature and evidence-based practices into leading and supervising healthcare delivery to patients
Designed for Working Healthcare Professionals
Our HLA Certificate is designed especially for working healthcare professionals, administrators, and leaders. With a completely-online program designed to fit with busy schedules, and that has three start dates a year, the HLA Certificate can fit your schedule.
Our HLA Certificate is designed to benefit individuals who fall into the following areas:
- Looking into a career as a healthcare administrator and may earn an MBA, MPA, or MHA degree in the future
- Currently working as a healthcare practitioner and are interested in gaining more administrative skills
- Presently working as a healthcare administrator and seeking additional confidence and leadership and administrative skills
Interprofessional Program Experience
Learn in an interprofessional program. Both students and instructors are from a variety of healthcare professions and are often former or current clinicians. Interact with healthcare professionals from a wide range of disciplines, deeping your learning and networking experience.
Transfer into our PhD or DMSc Programs
Are you interested in earning your doctorate? Credits from our HLA certificate transfer directly into our PhD in Health Sciences (PhD) or Doctor of Medical Science (DMSc) programs. Our PhD is designed for a wide variety of healthcare professionals, while our DMSc is a clinical doctorate designed specifically for physician assistants. Make an easy transition from our certificate program straight into your doctorate degree.
HLA Certificate Curriculum
Deepen and develop healthcare leadership and administrative skills. Prepare to become a better leader and administrator.

Delivering High-Quality Healthcare
Delve into leadership theories, concepts, and challenges as they relate to healthcare.
Healthcare Systems
Learn how economics and healthcare systems interact. Deliver healthcare to the best of your clinic’s ability within that system.
Research & Data
Integrate critically-reviewed current literature and evidence-based practices into the daily administration of healthcare delivery.
Communication Systems
Mediate and manage communication at every organizational level to optimize the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery.
Semester Starts
Winter 2024
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Summer 2024
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Fall 2024
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ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
- A minimum of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution
Anyone who is currently a healthcare administrator, a healthcare manager, or even working in a field unrelated to healthcare can apply for the Healthcare Leadership and Administration Certificate.
For students who are interested in healthcare administration but are not sure if they are ready to start an entire degree program, the HLA Certificate gives students a comprehensive foundation for a healthcare administration degree.
If you do not have healthcare experience, the HLA Certificate will help you explore the possibility of healthcare administration and leadership as a potential career path. Earning your Healthcare Leadership and Administration Certificate or taking any of the individual courses within the certificate program will prepare you to lead with confidence.
Clinical Rotation Requirements including required vaccinations: Admitted students to Rocky Mountain University who will be completing a clinical rotation will receive vaccination forms regarding required vaccinations. Not all vaccinations or proof of immunity are required at the beginning of the program but will be prior to the first clinical rotation. The University allows for vaccination exemptions and more information about the University’s position on vaccination can be reviewed at https://rm.edu/vaccination-statement/
RMU requires the following items prior to starting any clinical rotations (these are subject to change depending upon public health concerns and specific clinic requirements):
- MMR
- Varicella
- Hepatitis B
- TB
- Tdap
- Annual Influenza
- COVID 19
- HIPAA certification
- OSHA certification
- CPR certification
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Faculty

Jennifer Austin
PhD, LAT, ATC, GTS
Program Director, Healthcare Leadership & Administration
UNIVERSITY ACCREDITATION
Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (8060 165th Avenue NE Ste 100, Redmond, WA 98052-3981), an institutional accrediting body recognized by the Secretary of the US Department of Education.