Fellowship Structure
The UF Health Shands Hospital administrative fellowship is a one year fellowship that begins with a month-long shadowing experience in key areas of the hospital. Areas will vary but may include Environmental Services, Dietary, Nursing, Finance, Physical Therapy, Financial Services, Radiology and the Operating Room. Shadowing these departments enables the fellow to obtain a clearer idea of the foundation of the hospital, and how each and every employee contributes to the overall patient experience. After shadowing, the remainder of the fellowship is self-directed with the preceptor providing close guidance, advice, and help. The projects fellows work on will be completed within the year experience, thus allowing the fellow to see a project through start to finish. Along with project assignments, fellows will also participate in executive leadership meetings.
Past Projects
- Creating the UF Health Shands Patient Flow Center
- Instituting new hire touchpoint interviews for retention
- ACS Level 1 Trauma Center re-verification
- Creating Florida’s first Mobile Stroke Treatment Unit
- Opening the UB2TU short stay unit
- COVID-19 Command Center team member
- Tracked project progress for a pediatric orthopaedic partnership with Shriners Hospitals for Children
- Medical staff bylaw review for a new hospital acquisition
- Equipment planning for a new Freestanding Emergency Department
- Updating patient educational television to replace the system hospital-wide
- Updating the emergency plans for every department
- Standardizing patient experience improvement practices across the hospital
- EPIC implementation updates
- Improving patient flow in specific clinical areas and improving the discharge process efficiency
- Outpatient wound care evaluation
- Endoscopy renovation/relocation
- Business plan and analysis for a new service line
- Project management of construction of a new Pediatric ICU
Life at UF Health
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