Cleveland, Strategies, and Shared Suffering

Last weekend, Trinity HCAD's first-year On-Campus students participated in the fourth annual Cleveland Clinic Case Competition.  Five teams worked tirelessly from Thursday night, when they received the case by email, through Monday morning, when they electronically submitted their case deliverables, which involved developing a strategy for the Cleveland Clinic's southern region in northeast Ohio.  The students' responses ranged from building microhospitals, to forming joint ventures with other community hospitals in the region, to establishing specialty facilities focusing on geriatric care.

The teams spent almost the entire weekend on Trinity's campus, and each adopted a "home room" to work in.  Each team seemed to develop a different personality over the course of the weekend, with some stocking up on snacks, others playing quiet music, and still others working while basketball games streamed on projector screens in the background.  There were also several class-wide breaks for impromptu football games outside and strolls around the campus.

Trinity HCAD's On-Campus program has participated in the Cleveland Clinic Case Competition for the past three years as part of its HCAD 5340 course (Health Care Strategic Planning & Marketing), and last year, three of our teams were selected among the top 16 teams from across the country.  By advancing, they enjoyed the opportunity to travel to Cleveland, where they presented to a panel of Cleveland Clinic senior executives.  We hope to experience similar success this year, as we are fully confident in our students' skills and abilities.  More importantly, we are once again incredibly proud of our wonderful students, who seized this opportunity of "shared suffering" to grow together and exceed their own expectations in terms of what they can accomplish as young careerists in health care administration.  With all of that intense, challenging work now behind them, the rest of the program should be a breeze! ;-)