Grace College Adds Healthcare Degree Options
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowGrace College is offering three new healthcare degree options for students this fall. A Master’s in Healthcare Administration and a Master’s of Integrative and Functional Medicine will be offered in partnership with John Patrick University of Health and Applied Sciences in South Bend. Grace is also introducing a new public health minor.
The college says the degrees come in response to an increasing demand in healthcare which is projected to grow 15% in the next eight years according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
“Never have we needed reliable healthcare more than now,” said Dr. Joseph Frentzel, chair of the Department of Science and Mathematics at Grace. “We are at a pivotal point in our country’s history in which the population is getting grayer while we are still stumbling through the fog of a pandemic. Even before COVID-19 arrived on American soil, certain parts of our country had only limited access to healthcare. Grace hopes to impact this shortfall with a renewed emphasis in healthcare-related programming.”
Grace says the MHA will produce students who will be proficient in both administrative and clinical skills and may choose to specialize in either oncology or radiology. The Master’s of Integrative and Functional Medicine is intended to equip students to not only address the outcome of disease, but also analyze the factors that influenced its occurrence such as lifestyle and the environment.
“The pandemic has taught the world the importance of public health specialists who help coordinate responses to these deadly threats,” said Frentzel. “Through these new programs and minor, Grace is positioning its graduates to answer vexing threats to human health while living out the unifying belief that it is better to serve others before ourselves.”
Additionally, Grace says it has created a new public health minor. The minor emphasizes healthcare-related areas such as policymaking, advocacy and epidemiology.