The rapidly changing economic situation over the past decade led to tremendous growth and transformation in the healthcare industry. Most traditional single-entity hospitals are now developing into multi-organizational hospital systems. Meanwhile, the challenge to remain a successful entity and deliver high-quality services becomes increasingly difficult. Such a difficult environment demands the leadership of individuals with strong business administration backgrounds, in addition to a thorough understanding of the healthcare field. In order to fulfill this need, I plan on combining my years as a business owner with a master's degree in health administration. The administration of a health center requires myriad responsibilities to set policies and procedures and oversee the daily operations of the institution. The board of directors, CEO and direct reports must ensure the most efficient operations possible to provide necessary medical care to patients. This necessitates the recruitment, hiring, and training of the highest grade staff, which is a very difficult goal due to the growing demand for healthcare professionals and competition among healthcare facilities for the best candidates. At the same time, the services of the institution have ever to be upgraded under continuous improvement, quality assurance programs with an emphasis on six-sigma error reduction. This also demands to develop and implementing broad-based budgets that can succeed under the health insurance constraints and government regulations.
             Healthcare administrators must also wear some other hats, such as public relations and marketing to promote the institution in the community, fund raising to enhance the economic well-being of the organization, collaborating with other providers, sitting on local boards, and continually interfacing with their health center board of directors. Business has always been in my blood. When I was younger, I (sold papers, worked in...