College of Health Professions

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. 

Prepare to make a difference in health care without direct patient care responsibilities. Our 100% online health information management program combines information technology (IT), business, problem-solving and management skills to give you a powerful way to make a positive impact as a health care administrator in health information. Davenport's College of Health Professions offers a range of health information degrees and certifications that provide you with the professionally required knowledge and skills you need to rise above the rest in today’s job market. With a degree in health information, you'll support patient safety and privacy as well as the confidentiality and security of health information. 

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 the foundation in both psychology and cultural diversity needed in health professions careers.

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.  

If you’re interested in a career in health and human service 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 health and human service case management programs will prepare you for a range of health professions careers, such as residential care manager, health and human service case manager, community relations coordinator, and health insurance case manager. 

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. 

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. Or take our Master of Business Administration with a concentration in health care management.