EMBA program provides business edge in health care environment - Executive MBA

EMBA program provides business edge in health care environment

	With background and education as a nurse, Donna Mimikos spent a number of years working in the clinical setting and advancing in her career, with each step moving her up the ladder leading to her current position as administrative manager of Beaumont Hospital Employee Health Plan and integrative health services. To excel in her new position and prepare for the next opportunity, Mimikos decided she needed a business degree. With a bachelor’s of science in nursing in hand, she found OU’s EMBA in health care to be the perfect fit. “In my role I review and interpret data frequently,” she says. “Through the skills I acquired in OU’s EMBA program my analysis now is more comprehensive. In addition, to statistical skills I now view processes for opportunities which will render them more efficient and effective. These business skills provide me the knowledge base that I wanted to continue to grow and develop along my career path.” Based on feedback from executives in the health care industry, OU’s EMBA in health care prepares those with medical training and experience, but without a business background, to be effective as they move into leadership positions.

With background and education as a nurse, Donna Mimikos spent a number of years working in the clinical setting and advancing in her career, with each step moving her up the ladder leading to her current position as administrative manager of Beaumont Hospital Employee Health Plan and integrative health services. To excel in her new position and prepare for the next opportunity, Mimikos decided she needed a business degree. With a bachelor’s of science in nursing in hand, she found OU’s EMBA in health care to be the perfect fit.

“In my role I review and interpret data frequently,” she says. “Through the skills I acquired in OU’s EMBA program my analysis now is more comprehensive. In addition, to statistical skills I now view processes for opportunities which will render them more efficient and effective. These business skills provide me the knowledge base that I wanted to continue to grow and develop along my career path.”

Based on feedback from executives in the health care industry, OU’s EMBA in health care prepares those with medical training and experience, but without a business background, to be effective as they move into leadership positions.

In 2000, OU’s EMBA program in health care was the first of its kind in Michigan. Today, the EMBA program offers two areas of concentration -- health care and information systems leadership -- both with a focus on strategy and leadership. The courses prepare leaders for rapidly growing and changing industries and are designed for the schedule of a business executive. The average age of the EMBA students is 40 years old.

Mimikos learned about the health care program through a colleague, but it was the benefits of the EMBA program that drew her in. “I was not interested in an online program and I wanted an MBA. I liked that the OU EMBA students were put in a co-hort, on an education track that was all mapped out,” Mimikos says.

Mimikos believes anyone in a management or leadership position in health care could benefit from the program.

“From Six Sigma and health care legal issues to writing presentations, OU’s EMBA program has brought me up to a certain level of polish that has had profound benefits on my career,” Mimikos says. “I had the health care experience, but I needed the business component. I got it through OU’s EMBA program.”