For Those Who Lead Healthcare
Senior executives and managers in healthcare institutions
South: 17 Dec 2026 · Central: 8 Oct 2026 · North: 4 Feb 2027
On campus · 8 months · Seville-Malaga, Toledo and Zaragoza
Senior Management Program for Healthcare Institutions (ADS)
The ADS Participant Profile
From Clinical Management to Strategic Leadership
Each cohort brings together those who govern healthcare institutions, those who lead clinical care and those who manage operations. That mix — rarely found in anyone’s day-to-day work — is precisely what participants come to experience.
What Does This Program Offer?
This is not a healthcare management program. It is general management applied to healthcare.
Methodology
Learning Methodology
Every part of the healthcare ecosystem comes together in the classroom: contrasting different realities is part of the method.
Real business cases
Teamwork
You compare perspectives with executives from other areas of the sector, guided by a discussion facilitator.
General session
The professor leads the whole-room discussion towards a diagnosis. Every part of the healthcare ecosystem comes together here.
Conference-discussions with sector leaders
Leading figures from healthcare come into the classroom to debate, not to give lectures. Practical workshops then help you take those decisions back into your institution.
Curriculum
Academic Content
The craft of management comes before the tools.
- Executive Decision-Making
- Corporate Governance
- Leadership and People Management
- Negotiation · Business Communication
Topics are updated every year to reflect the needs of each cohort. The program does not simply repeat a syllabus: it rewrites it.
Read the institution through its numbers — and make it work.
- Accounting, Costs and Management Control
- Finance for Executives
- Operations Management and Service Management
- Commercial Strategy · Management Tools
Visits to healthcare institutions recognized for their services or practices, so you can see innovation from the inside rather than on a slide.
Where the sector is heading.
- Health Systems
- The New Digital Environment · Innovation and Technology
- Strategic Reflection Forum: AI in healthcare, bioethics, collaborative models in the healthcare sector and mental health
ADSSUR (Seville-Malaga), ADSCENTRO (Toledo) and ADSNORTE (Zaragoza). You may attend sessions from any edition, including after completing the program.
Faculty with first-hand management experience.
Faculty who bring together every area involved in management and work through them using cases from the healthcare sector.
Success Stories and Testimonials
What Happens After Completing ADS
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Is it compatible with running an institution?
Yes. The Senior Management Program for Healthcare Institutions (ADS) is designed specifically for executives and professionals with management responsibilities in the healthcare ecosystem. Its format combines individual study with concentrated on-campus sessions, making it compatible with your professional activity.
The Case Method lets you apply what you learn straight away to the real challenges of your organization, while exchanging experience with other executives enriches decision-making and broadens your strategic perspective.
How does the admission process work?
The admission process is designed to ensure a group of participants with high-responsibility profiles within the healthcare sector. The program is aimed at business owners, board members, CEOs, general managers, executives, heads of department, specialists, team leaders and professionals with the potential to take on management positions.
Once admission has been confirmed, the candidate has fifteen days to secure their place by paying the registration fee.
How much does it cost and how can it be financed?
The total program fee is €18,990.
Deposit to secure your place: €3,000
Remainder of the program: €15,990.
Tuition includes teaching materials, lunches, coffee breaks, accommodation where applicable depending on your home city, and the first-year membership fee of the Alumni Association. Special scholarships are also available.
As a university-specific degree (Título Propio) recognised by Universidad Villanueva, participants may ask their company for Individual Training Leave (PIF). If the established requirements are met, the company can recover the salary cost of the working hours spent attending the program.
Where does the program take place?
Campus allocation is based on each participant’s geographical proximity, to make it easier to combine the program with their professional activity.
The Senior Management Program for Healthcare Institutions has three national editions:
- ADS South: Seville and Malaga.
- ADS Central: Toledo.
- ADS North: Zaragoza.
