Trinity University HCAD Herald

This week our students have enjoyed the annual tradition of traveling to Chicago to attend the American College of Healthcare Executives' (ACHE) Congress on Healthcare Leadership as well as the Trinity University Health Care Administration Department Alumni Association's Dean Duce Award Dinner, which this year recognized distinguished alumnus Bruce Lawrence ('82), President and CEO of INTEGRIS Health.  This cherished ritual offers first-year students a critical experience during the program, through which they are afforded opportunities to bond with classmates, to engage in and learn from ACHE's professional community of healthcare executives, to connect with and celebrate Trinity HCAD alumni, to prepare for Preceptor's Conference with mock interviews, and to experience the city of Chicago.  Current student Camille Fagan put together this great account of her time in Chicago: Earlier this week, all 23 first year on-campus program students attended the American Col

This past Wednesday, the on-campus HCAD first-year students completed a major joint project across the HCAD 5311 (Health Services Organization & Policy II) and HCAD 5313 (Health Economics) courses: the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) and Market Analysis project.  For the third consecutive year, this project asked groups of students to each select a specific market in the U.S. and then complete a detailed analysis of their respective market, simulating both a CHNA that is required for nonprofit hospitals throughout the U.S. as well as an economic market outlook that is a common tool developed by health care strategic groups and consulting firms.  The five markets selected by student groups included Baltimore, Colorado Springs, Des Moines, Las Vegas, and San Diego. This year's presentations took a different form than previous years, as the traditional format of having each group formally present their individual analysis in half-hour blocks was replaced by a sim

The past two weeks have been busy ones for our first-year on-campus graduate students as they approach the mid-point of the spring semester.  Between case competitions, ideation sessions, preparations for major group projects and presentations, thinking ahead to ACHE Congress in Chicago in late March and Preceptors' Conference in early May, and studying for upcoming exams, things have heated up in a semester known for being full, busy, challenging, and rewarding. This past week saw our group of three first-year students compete in the 11th annual University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Health Administration Case Competition.  Jake Abrey, Shirly Ho, and Dillon Rai devoted three weeks to diligently preparing their strategic response to the case presented in the competition, which involved meaningfully addressing the needs of emergency department superutilizers at Bon Secours Hospital in Baltimore.  Their hard work and efforts certainly paid off, and we were thrilled to see