Benefits

A New Perspective to Guide Effective Decision-making

  • Leadership skills that enhance effective collaboration
  • Deeper understanding of the factors that cause organizational dysfunction, and how to change them
  • Mastery of business vocabulary and skills applicable to any type of healthcare organization
  • Personal growth through close interaction with faculty and peers in and out of classroom

Results Oriented, Immediate Benefits For Participants and Their Organizations

Examples of worksite projects undertaken as coursework:

  • Implemented initiative to reduce length of stay in a cardiac service, improving financial performance
  • Implemented system-wide wound care management program in multi-hospital system to improve quality and reduce cost of care
  • Defined and implemented new position of Vice President, Medical Affairs, in a recently merged multi-hospital system
  • Reorganized cardiac services into a service line model to enhance physician accountability and market focus
  • Negotiated successful resolution to conflict over physician compensation that threatened viability of large physician group