Trinity University HCAD Herald

As we approach the end of 2016, our on-campus graduate students who are completing their administrative residencies are receiving visits from their faculty readers.  These site visits often include: tours of the organizations and facilities that have defined the residents' experiences; individual meetings with residency preceptors and mentors to express gratitude for their role in the residencies and their perspective on ways to improve the program experience; and, focused time with residents to discuss their experiences over the course of the administrative residency as well as the entire program and to think about what the future holds for them. Of course, site visits aren't always just tours of facilities and individual meetings to discuss how the year has gone.  Residents are still working full time in their roles, which often means staff meetings, projects, and urgent communications that can't wait may come up during a visit.  In these instances, faculty readers...

This month's Research Spotlight shines on work from our very own, Dr. Brad Beauvais, published in the most recent issue of the  Journal of Health Administration Education .  In collaboration with colleagues Forest Kim, Mishaw Cuyler, Jason Richter, Lawrence Johnson, and David Mangelsdorff, Dr. Beauvais and his team share their development of a competency-based assessment methodology that was initially employed within the Army-Baylor Program in Health and Business Administration. The methodology, referred to as the BEAR, grew in response to a shift towards competency-based education by the Commission on Accreditation for Healthcare Management (CAHME), which in turn has corresponded with an increased emphasis on competency-based education and calls by industry groups such as the American Hospital Association for health care organizations to carefully define and consider the importance of competencies across organizational positions.  Beauvais and colleagues describe t...

Each year October brings not only a long awaited break from summer temperatures in south Texas, but for the HCAD program it also brings our annual alumni weekend, when we celebrate the Trinity HCAD family and enjoy reconnecting across the alumni network.  This year was no exception, and first-year HCAD on-campus graduate student Camille Fagan shares the following account of the varied events: This past weekend was Alumni Weekend for our Healthcare Administration Department! There was a great turnout as graduates spent the weekend reconnecting with old classmates and friends. Trinity Alumni Coordinator Elizabeth Ford worked closely with HCAD Alumni Association President Jim Bohnsack to host a series of events over the fun-filled weekend. The first of these events was a Thursday lunch mixer between the HCAD Alumni Association's Board of Directors and the first-year on-campus HCAD students. Each Board member detailed their individual career paths and offered advice for...

In a recent "Spotlight" profile by Trinity University website's news center, HCAD alum Tyler Wilson ('07 and '09) was featured for the work he is doing with value-based care at Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) in Colorado.  Specifically, Tyler serves as the National Director of Clinically Integrated Network Development & Integrity at CHI, where he provides direction for CHI's 12 clinically integrated networks (CINs) as they provide health services across the continuum of care with an emphasis on population health management and preventative care.  We're proud to hear about the work Tyler is doing with CHI, and you can read more about it by checking out his Trinity University Spotlight story here . In our on-campus and executive graduate programs, HCAD students engage in conversations across multiple courses regarding the future of value-based care in our health care delivery system.  Whether discussing the policies surrounding value-based care in...