Amy Lenz Receives ACHE Regent’s Award for Outstanding Student
Amy Lenz, 2013-14 President of the Central Michigan University Collegiate Health Administration Preparatory Society (CHAPS) is the 2014 winner of the ACHE Regent’s Outstanding Student Award for Michigan. The award is being presented by the ACHE Regent, Christina Freeze, FACHE, at the opening session of the Michigan Hospital and Healthcare Association (MHA) meeting on Mackinaw Island on June 26, 2014. Amy is a senior majoring in Health Administration at Central Michigan and will graduate in December 2014. Currently she is doing her internship at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor. Besides being active in CHAPS for the past four years and serving as President, she also represents the student organization on the Board of the Great Lakes Chapter of ACHE.
Three Doctor of Health Administration Students Selected for Dissertation Awards
The Doctor of Health Administration Program at Central Michigan University was honored during the 2013-2014 academic year with three of the students being selected by the College of Graduate Studies as Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations for the Year.
David Meckstroth, DHA, dissertation research dealt with “Key Variables Health Care Executives Consider When Altering Services in Short-Term Acute Care Hospitals.” Bryan Schneider, DHA, dissertation research dealt with “Prioritization of Inpatient Hospital Services to Prisoners: A Method for Justifying Care and Cost. Mary Cooke, DHA, dissertation research dealt with “Financial Risk for Total Care Costs: The Impact of Financial Incentives on Physician Infrastructure and Physician Behavior.
The three were selected from all of the doctoral dissertations submitted during the year from the fifteen doctoral programs offered at Central Michigan University.