Health Policy & Administration Program
With CAHME accreditation, renowned faculty and a strong, distinguished curriculum, the HPA program offers students outstanding preparation for health policy and health management careers.
What's more, our location in Spokane—a large tertiary medical center—fosters valuable connections with the medical community.
Program Distinctions and Strengths
- The only CAHME-accredited program admitted to the WICHE Western Regional Graduate Program. This allows residents of fourteen states to register at resident tuition rates.
- National leadership in health finance.
- Boeing Distinguished Professorship in Health Policy.
- Two-semester sequence of health law courses recommended by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration Task Force on Health Law.
- The only CAHME-accredited program academically housed in a College of Pharmacy.
- Good relationships with area and regional health services organizations and agencies, many of which employ graduates.
- Advisory Committee of health service professionals who provide practitioner insight and connections for students and faculty.
- Overall excellence in course and syllabus design.
- Academic coordinator provides support for students in advising, internships, and career development.
- Program mission, goals, and objectives reflect the program's orientation to an innovative community context.
- Full Graduate Membership Status to The Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA).
Our 50-semester-hour graduate program is one of only four programs in the fourteen-state
western region (excluding California) accredited by
Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare
Management Education.
Contact Us
Office Location
Academic
Center
Offices 403 M–S
Winsor Schmidt, Chair
E-mail: schmidtw@wsu.edu
Telephone: 509.358.7981
De Martin, Academic Coordinator
E-mail: demartin@wsu.edu
Telephone: 509.358.7987
Telephone: 509.358.7980
Fax: 509.358.7984