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In January 2009, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and Portland State University (PSU) launched their joint MBA in Healthcare Management. This program evolved from the existing graduate Certificate in Healthcare Management offered by the OHSU Division of Management (a unit in the OHSU School of Medicine) and the MBA+ degree offered by the PSU School of Business Administration. The need for this program was discerned through a series of interviews that were conducted with healthcare executives in the Portland metropolitan area, focus group studies with potential candidates for healthcare management graduate studies, and the expressed wishes of a number of graduates from the Certificate in Healthcare Management program.