As patient health care management needs become more complex, the need for expert care managers grows more urgent. The online graduate certificate in care management program at MU prepares graduates to go beyond bedside practice and into this high-demand field. With an interdisciplinary approach, this program educates health care professionals on how to improve health outcomes, enhance care quality and reduce health care costs among their patients.

This program supports preparation for national certification as a care manager through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (nurses), American Case Management Association (health care disciplines), and the Commission for Case Manager Certification (health care disciplines).

Program structure

Delivery of this program is 100 percent online: no campus visits are required.

Courses are semester-based. How long it takes to complete the program depends on your academic progress so far. If you want to study part time, the program will most likely take you two years to complete.

Course work includes

Foundations of care management

Pharmacology, pathophysiology and physical assessment

Evidence-based care management practice for individuals and populations

Program outcomes

• Communicate, collaborate and engage individuals and families, health care professionals and health care systems.
• Facilitate appropriate use of health care resources in order to deliver high-quality, high-value care in all health care settings.
• Critique, assimilate and evaluate research, technology, health care costs and informatics data as a basis for promoting health, improving health care coordination and influencing changes at the systems and policy level.
• Advocate, through leadership and policy, for all persons in need of health care coordination regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability and military, veteran or socioeconomic status.
• Practice professional accountability and behavior consistent with the Code of Professional Conduct for Case Managers.