Responding to health care reform: preparing tomorrow's practitioners

At a time when all of healthcare is undergoing change and evolution, the healthcare education community has so far escaped intense public scrutiny. To remain valid, we must address the education and the reeducation of healthcare professionals. Baccalaureate health administration programs, in particular, can step in and respond to the changing needs of the industry, the market, and of healthcare professionals by creating articulation formats that provide flexible verti for associate degreed healthcare professionals. Such programs enable a diverse constellation of healthcare professionals to obtain the managerial and organizational skills that are cal and horizontal access key to career mobility in today's turbulent healthcare arena.