Transform and impact lives through careers in health care
Excel and advance in the complex health care environment and make a difference in the lives of others. With more than 15 associate, bachelor’s and master’s health care degrees and certificate programs, Davenport offers many paths to launch or advance your health professions career. By earning a health care degree, you’ll see why Davenport has a nearly 100% graduate satisfaction rate — and why our graduates are in high demand in careers in health care. |
Highly accredited
Many of the programs offered through Davenport’s College of Health Professions are accredited by some of the nation’s largest accrediting bodies, including the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM), the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE). Such accreditations let you know you’re receiving a quality health care degree that provides the knowledge and skills required for a variety of careers in health care.
Hands-on and career focused
Through your degree in health care, you will experience hands-on learning opportunities, such as clinicals, practicums and field work that will prepare you for success in health professions careers. Davenport’s health degrees are taught by expert practicing faculty who share real-life experience in personalized, one-on-one settings. If you’re pursuing an undergraduate health care degree, you’ll also spend more time on your health professions major than you would at other four-year institutions while getting more real-world experience.
Flexible and effective health degrees
Earn your health care degree full time or part time, online through our Global Campus or on our campuses across Michigan. If you want to fast-track your career in health care, Davenport’s College of Health Professions offers concurrent, completion and veteran-specific pathways. That’s because Davenport’s health care college values your health professions career and will help you turn your experience into college credit wherever possible to save you time and money.
Mission of the College of Health Professions
Davenport University’s College of Health Professions prepares and transforms students to achieve the highest levels of academic and professional performance, leading them to excel and advance in the complex healthcare environment of the 21st century.
Explore Davenport’s health care degrees
Take time to explore the health degrees and certificates offered through Davenport’s health care college. If you have questions about our health care degrees, please call us at 800.686.1600 or email us at info@davenport.edu.
Nursing
Prepare to advance in your career in health care through a range of nursing degrees and certifications offered through Davenport’s health care college. Our health care degrees will boost your skills in leadership and management, critical thinking, advanced assessment and communication. Davenport’s health degrees emphasize collaborating practices, applied research, self-directed learning, systems thinking and professional development.
- Cardiothoracic Critical Care
- Pediatric Critical Care
- Neonatal Critical Care
- Surgical Critical Care
- Emergency Room
- Medical - Surgical
- Mental Health
- Obstetrics
- Oncology
- Pediatrics
- Adult & Pediatric
Health Information Technology
Prepare for a career in health care analyzing, managing and using patient care data and health information resources through this health degree offered through the college of health sciences. See the holistic nature of health care while becoming proficient in its technology through the state-of-the-art Electronic Health Record (EHR) Go learning platform. Through this Davenport health degree, you’ll gain an understanding of coding information for reimbursement and research, standards and regulations regarding health information and managing medical records and health care information.
- HIM Supervisor
- Business Intelligence Analyst
- Charge Capture Analyst
- Claims Analyst
- Applications Analyst
- Tumor Registrar / Oncology Data Analyst
- Trauma Registrar
- Fraud, Waste and Abuse Auditor
- Clinical Coding Appeals Auditor
- Coding Specialist
- Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialist
- Quality Improvement Specialist
- Utilization Review Specialist
- Training and Development Specialist
- Case Management Associate
- Research Associate
- Medical Office Manager
Medical Assisting
Develop into a highly competent medical assistant in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills) and affective (behavior) learning areas. This health degree offered through Davenport’s College of Health Professions will prepare you for a range of careers in health care by teaching you the basics of patient care, basic laboratory practices and medical office procedures. This degree in health care will also give you the interpersonal communication skills and a foundation in both psychology and cultural diversity needed in health professions careers.
- Administrative Medical Assistant
- Clinical Medical Assistant
- Registered Medical Assistant
- Certified Medical Assistant
Health Information Management
Learn to develop, implement and manage individual, aggregate and public health care data collection and reporting systems through this unique health degree at Davenport. Position yourself for health professions careers where ensuring the quality, integrity, availability and preservation of health care data is imperative. Support patient safety and privacy as well as the confidentiality and security of health information through this health care degree delivered through the college of health sciences.
- HIM Director / Manager
- Business Intelligence Analyst
- Charge Capture Analyst
- Claims Analyst
- Applications Analyst
- Tumor Registrar / Oncology Data Analyst
- Trauma Registrar
- Fraud, Waste and Abuse Auditor
- Clinical Coding Appeals Auditor
- Coding Specialist
- Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialist
- Quality Improvement Specialist
- Utilization Review Specialist
- Training and Development Specialist
- Case Management Associate
- Research Associate
- Medical Office Manager
Health Services Administration
Davenport’s College of Health Professions offers a variety of health degrees designed to prepare you for management positions in a range of health care settings and organizations. Choose a specialty if you want to focus your studies on a particular area of interest. Through Davenport’s distinctive health care degrees, you’ll be ready to launch or advance your career in health care or to continue on to earn Davenport’s MBA with a health care management concentration.
- Health Care Coordinator
- Business Director
- Residential Supervisor
- Practice Manager
- Office Manager
- Credentialing Specialist
- Wellness Coordinator
- Medical Education Specialist
- Health and Social Services Manager
- Patient Relations Specialists / Director
- Program Manager
- Outpatient Services Coordinator / Director
- Volunteer Services Coordinator / Director
Medical Case Management
If you’re interested in a career in health care in medical case management, consider these health degrees at Davenport. You’ll learn the components of case management, including assessing, planning, implementing, coordinating, monitoring and evaluating the care of a client across the continuum of care. Offered by our health care college, the medical case management programs will prepare you for a range of health professions careers, such as residential care manager, medical case manager, community relations coordinator and health insurance case manager.
- Residential Care Manager
- Case Management Technician
- Care Coordinator
- Social and Community Service Manager
- Case Management Assistant
- Case Manager
- Community Relations Coordinator
- Medical Case Manager
- Program Representative
- Care Manager
- Integrated Disability Coordinator
- Community Resource Manager
- Health Insurance Case Manager
Occupational Therapy
The College of Health Professions at Davenport offers a master’s in occupational therapy that prepares you for careers in health care as an occupational therapist. You’ll learn to skillfully and effectively deliver services to diverse populations in a range of practice settings. Become an exceptional practitioner through a health degree that emphasizes extensive hands-on, immersive training in our occupational therapy room and other state-of-the-art classrooms and labs — and opportunities off campus, too.
- Occupational Therapist
Health Care Management
Enhance your proficiency and leadership skills in the health care management field with a graduate certificate in health care management. Delivered through the College of Health Professions, the certificate program can be completed in just one year. Through this health degree, you’ll learn concepts in strategic management, ethical and legal principles and financial concerns. You’ll can also explore medical practice management or information management in health care to qualify you for even more careers in health care.