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The American health care system today is in a tremendous state of upheaval, which some have compared to a no-holds-barred brawl in a frontier saloon of the American Wild West, with hospitals, HMO's, physicians, clinics, and other groups and organizations all competing (sometimes not too civilly) in a shifting policy environment which sometimes changes so rapidly even the "experts" aren't sure what's happening.

In this tumultuous situation, the modern health administrator tries to make the best effort he/she can to bring some order out of chaos and continue the historic all-important mission of coordinating the delivery of health services to those who need them. It isn't easy.

But it is a challenge, and a rewarding career for those who choose it. Presumably, you are investigating this page because you are one of the following:

• A new student in Auburn University's Program in Health Administration.
• Someone looking into this Program because you're curious.
• An Auburn Health Administration student who's seen our pages before but hasn't looked at this particular page.

Be sure to check out the following pages. All students in the HA Program are responsible for reading them and following their instructions.

1. The Main HA Page (HA Home Page)
2. The HA Program Philosophy
3. Advising in HA
4. The HSA Major
5. Courses in HA

1. What Health Administrators Do
2. The HHAO (our student organization)

Glad you dropped in. You might want to start by going back to

• The HA Home Page,

If you're having any thoughts about becoming a major in the HA Program, be sure to check out:

• The HA Program Philosophy (explains a great deal of we we are and what we stand for)
• The HA Newsline (current developments in regard to the Program)
• The Master List of HA Pages (covers all pages of our Website by subject and alphabetically)

Hi, "Vet," hope you like what you see here.

Take a moment to be sure you've read everything the new students are expected to read so they won't show you up! Then, check out:

• The HA Newsline (current Program News)
• The Intern Status Report (learn how many internships have been scheduled for which upcoming quarters)
• The Main HA Page (announcements on "What's New")
• Job Seeking in HA
• The Employment Outlook in our field
• Graduate Study
• The Master List of HA Pages (more specific information about the Program or HA in general)
• Finding the HA Program on the Web (useful for helping friends who are new to the Program or to computers get into using our Web pages; you may wish to print copies for them)