Richard J. Stull Student Essay Competition in Healthcare Management winners have been selected.
Graduate Division
1st Place
School: University of Minnesota
Author: Emily E. Johnson
Title: “Reimagining the Future of Acute Care: Implementing Home Hospital Care Programs to Achieve the Triple Aim and Reduce Health Disparities”.
Program Director: Jean M. Abraham
2nd Place
School: Baylor University
Author: Liam Ferreira
Title: “Somebody Call a DOCTOR! Using Reverse Innovation to Improve Healthcare Management in Response to COVID-19”
Program Director: Forest S. Kim, PhD, FACHE
3rd Place
School: The George Washington University
Author: Casey J. Lawrence
Title: “A Strategic Framework for Retaining New Graduate Registered Nurses in the Hospital Setting: Going Beyond Nurse Residency Programs”
Program Director: Leonard H. Friedman, PhD, MPH, FACHE
Undergraduate Division
1st Place
School: Texas State University
Author: Helen Callie Ball
Title: “Improving Healthcare Cost, Quality, and Access Through Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications”
Program Director: Lawrence V. Fulton
2nd Place
School: Auburn University
Author: Christopher B. Weldon
Title: “Reducing Avoidable Readmissions by Implementing New Discharge and Follow-up Care Procedures”
Program Director: Cathleen O. Erwin, PhD
3rd Place
School: Loyola University Chicago
Author: Dana M. Varughese
Title: “Improving Care for the Workforce Backbone of a Healthcare System”
Program Director: MaryMargaret Sharp-Pucci, EdD, MPH
All winners will be recognized at the Postgraduate Fellowship Event cohosted by the American College of Healthcare Executives, Association of University Programs in Health Administration, and National Center for Healthcare Leadership in late April. The two first-place entries will be published in future issues of the Journal of Healthcare Management.