Completion of Kettering College’s Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences degree, with an emphasis in advanced imaging, provides additional training in the field, as well as advanced skills, knowledge and values that expand the radiology technician’s role in the healthcare system. You’ll gain in-depth knowledge and move toward the certification level in either sectional or vascular imaging.

Completion of Kettering College’s Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences degree, with an emphasis in education, provides the health care provider with skills needed to work in professional development, patient education, and with health professional students. You’ll gain in-depth knowledge of instructional planning and delivery, working with students in health care settings, and developing, implementing, and evaluating educational programs in health care settings.

Completion of Kettering College’s Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences degree, with an emphasis in management, provides the health professional with advanced skills and knowledge in health care leadership and management. You’ll gain in-depth knowledge about healthcare personnel management, leadership theory, and interdisciplinary teams in acute and community care settings.

Completion of Kettering College’s Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences degree, with an emphasis in respiratory care, provides additional training in the field, as well as advanced skills, knowledge and values that expand the therapist’s role in the healthcare system. You’ll gain in-depth knowledge about invasive and noninvasive cardiopulmonary monitoring; cardiopulmonary assessment in critical care, home care, rehabilitation and polysomnography settings; neonatal and pediatric respiratory care.

There are no required clinicals, so you can complete this degree within the comfort of your own home!

Program goals: “To provide graduates of entry into respiratory care professional practice degree programs with additional knowledge, skills, and attributes in leadership, management, education, research, or advanced clinical practice both to meet their current professional goals and to prepare them for practice as advanced degree respiratory therapists.”

Approval and Accreditation

The Kettering College degree advancement program #510004 awards a Bachelor of Health Science with an emphasis in Respiratory Care and is a Kettering College online program. This program holds provisional accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care. (CoARC)

This status signifies that a program with an Approval of Intent has demonstrated sufficient compliance with the Standards (through submission of an acceptable Provisional Accreditation Self Study Report (PSSR) and any other documentation required by the CoARC, as well as satisfactory completion of an initial on-site visit). The program will remain on Provisional Accreditation until it receives Continuing Accreditation.
The CoARC’s outcomes webpage provides outcomes data for all its accredited programs. “CoARC accredits respiratory therapy education programs in the United States. To achieve this end, it utilizes an ‘outcomes-based’ process. Programmatic outcomes are performance indicators that reflect the extent to which the educational goals of the program are achieved and by which program effectiveness is documented.

Kettering College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, approved by the Adventist Accrediting Association (AAA), and authorized by the Ohio Department of Higher Education.

Pre-MBA / Pre-MHA Concentration
For students interested in a career in leadership, consider this concentration to gain credit for didactic courses at the graduate level.