Leveling Up with Healthcare Finance equips healthcare professionals with essential financial concepts and tools to lead effectively in complex care environments. Through applied learning and real-world scenarios, participants gain confidence to interpret financial data, plan budgets, assess ROI, and align resources with organizational priorities.
Why Join This Program?
Healthcare leaders increasingly need financial fluency to drive strategy, steward resources, and sustain high-quality care. This program demystifies key finance concepts—helping you read financial statements, understand factors that impact finance, build business cases, and partner with others—so you can lead change initiatives and make decisions that improve outcomes and value.
What You'll Gain:
- Understand how healthcare is financed in the U.S., including reimbursement models and cost drivers influencing performance.
- Interpret and use core financial statements and tools (e.g., budgets, balance sheets, and profit and loss reports) used in health systems.
- Build and manage budgets that forecast revenue and expenses and assess variance drivers.
- Create ROI analyses and business cases that connect financial performance to quality and value.
- Communicate financial insights effectively with executives, finance partners, and frontline teams to support strategic and operational decision-making.
Who Should Apply?
This program is ideal for clinical and administrative leaders who want to strengthen their understanding of healthcare finance and apply it to real-world leadership challenges.
Participants may include:
- Frontline staff preparing for leadership roles
- Unit-based or departmental managers overseeing budgets or staffing
- Directors, educators, or coordinators responsible for resource planning
- Leaders eager to connect financial literacy with equitable, high-quality care
Program Structure
Program Expectations:
Participants are expected to:
- Attend all live learning sessions as scheduled and complete required pre-work.
- Engage in discussions and exercises.
Testimonials:
“Program and presenter were very knowledgeable, professional, intelligent, and provided context to those who don’t have any understanding to the processes of Healthcare Accounting & Finance 101”
“The facilitator was fantastic, and the panelists shared valuable information from a variety of viewpoints and experience”
Cost
Regular registration: $275
UCSF employees & students: $192
Group discount (5+ participants): $247
UCSF alumni of a graduate degree program: $247
Please contact the UCSF Leadership Institute at [email protected] if you would like to register a group so that we can apply the group discount.
Continuing Education Credits
4.5 contact hours provided by the California Board of Registered Nursing (Provider Number 12980) for participation in all sessions associated with this series. Contact hours for partial participation are not awarded.
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