The category A Health Care Institution Management programme is open to candidates who pass the internal or external competitive exam. It is public and was awarded to EHESP by the decree of 2 August 2005, amended by the ministerial order of 15 April 2003 and amended by the order of 10 July 2008.

Role

The Health Care Institution Managers mainly carries out their functions in:

  • public health institutions and their local hospital groups;
  • health cooperation groups.

The activities of the Health Care Institution Director have a two-fold dimension:

Strategic

  • to position the hospital as an actor in a public health approach that takes into account curative and preventive approaches to care aimed at comprehensive patient care in a sense of territorial population-based responsibility;
  • participate in the design and management of the institution project
  • conduct an efficient policy of continuous development of the quality and relevance of care and care pathways to the benefit of patients and beneficiaries of hospital medico-social activities;
  • contribute to the development of health democracy;
  • ensuring the green transition.

Operational

  • to develop management practices adapted to change management in a regulatory context in constant evolution and within an increasingly tight budget;
  • ensure the proper organisation of the clinical, medico-technical, technical, logistical and administrative services of the institution;
  • human resources management, financial management and economic, logistical and digital management in the local and historical context of the institution
  • administer the assets of the institution;
  • develop communication processes and policies and an information system relevant to the dynamism of the institution.

Objectives and skills

Professional objectives

  • understanding the leadership and management of health organisations across a territory through training in the management and conduct of projects and changes;
  • develop professional knowledge and skills tailored to the needs of institutions in a difficult budgetary context (finance, human resources and communication in fundamental disciplines);
  • take into account the quality of service to users at an internal level and in a care pathway approach.

Skill outcomes

  • make a diagnosis of the positioning of my institution or group in its territory;
  • develop, implement and manage a strategic project of the institution or cluster in a given functional area (procurement, information systems, HR, quality, legal affairs, medical affairs, research, quality, territorial coordination, etc.);
  • develop, implement and manage a quality approach in a functional area;
  • the management and budgetary and financial management of health insitutions and services;
  • piloting and managing medical and non-medical human resources in an EPS;
  • managing the material resources (purchasing, logistics, architectural heritage and real estate) of an EPS.

Entry requirements

Open to professionals and/or non-degree students (auditeurs libres).

EHESP public service courses are reserved to people who have passed a national competitive entrance exam.

To find out more about the eligibility criteria for the competitive exams, visit the website of the Centre national de gestion (CNG).

Contact

Programme Manager

Cecilia WAHEO

Office responsible for Health Care Institution Management Programme

E-mail : filiere.dh@ehesp.fr – T. +33 (0) 2 99 02 26 62

Modified on 27 January 2025