online courses.

We would like to take this

opportunity to thank Steve

Merz for his mentoring and

advising of our learners. His

tireless energy and commit-

ment to the future generation

of healthcare leaders provid-

ed an extremely valuable

asset to our programs.

I also wish to thank our 2015-

2016 QU-ACHE student-

leaders: Francis Kissi, Jim

Falco, Connor Rand, Na-

thaniel Moore, Erika Edlund,

Christopher Estwan, Dori

Horne and Robyn Perry.

We are extremely apprecia-

tive of our relationship with

CT-AHE and consider all of

you valued partners in train-

ing the future generation of

healthcare leaders.

Our Sincere Appreciation!

Angela Mattie

Professor & Chair, Dept. Healthcare Management & Organizational Lead-ership

W e are pleased to

provide the

Quinnipiac Uni-

versity Chapter of the Ameri-

can College of Healthcare

Executives (ACHE) Academic

Year Report. 2015-2016 was

a very successful and active

year for our student organiza-

tion. The students participat-

ed in a wide range of events

described in this report.

They also delivered a number

of excellent projects through

their coursework and onsite

placements.

2015-2016 also saw our stu-

dents engaged in a series of

interdisciplinary pursuits.

Kurt Barwis, President/CEO

Bristol Hospital, served as

mentor to a multidisciplinary

student team. This team re-

cently received notification of

their upcoming publication in

ACHE’s Journal of Health Care

Management.

Our interdisciplinary focus

also continued through a

speaker series with MD, DNP,

MBA-HCM, & MSOL students

joining us to hear a diverse

group of individuals in the

healthcare industry-including

Dr. Peter Bowers, Chief Medi-

cal Director, Anthem, Inc. and

James Iacobellis, Senior Vice

President, Government &

Regulatory Affairs, CHA.

This year we also continued

efforts to engage the commu-

nity in our internship pro-

gram. Qualidigm® responded

to a need to create meaning-

ful experiences for future

healthcare leaders. Four QU

interns are placed at Qua-

lidigm® this year in their well-

structured internship pro-

gram. The VA Healthcare

System and Middlesex Hospi-

tal, among others, are also

mentoring interns.

You also responded to our

call to engage our online

learners in QU-ACHE. Kurt

Barwis and Steve Merz visited

our studios and taped a seg-

ment on the benefits of join-

ing ACHE. This well-done

effort is posted to all our

healthcare management

QU-ACHE Officers

2015—2016

Francis Kissi, Co-President

Jim Falco, Co-President

Connor Rand, Vice President of

Social Events

Nathaniel Moore, Vice President

of Communications

Robyn Perry, Secretary

Erika Edlund, Membership Coor-

dinator

QU-ACHE Officers

2016-2017

Robyn Perry, Co-President

Connor Rand, Co-President

Dori Horne, VP of Administration

and Membership

Chris Estwan, VP Social Media

Victoria Ferrante, VP of Com-

munications/Newsletter

Abigail Blake, VP Social Events

Message from the QU-ACHE Faculty Director

CT-AHE Report, Academic Year 2015-2016

Quinnipiac University Chapter

American College of Healthcare Executives

Please click here to learn more about the QU Health Care Management + Organizational Leadership programs

Page 2 QU-ACHE News

CT-AHE Executives Visit Quinnipiac

Kurt Barwis, CEO of Bristol Hospital and Steve Merz, Vice Presi-dent of Behavior Health at Yale-New Haven came to Quinnipiac University studios to tape an introduction to ACHE and the benefits of joining as a stu-dent. QU's MBA-Healthcare Manage-ment track is delivered online. This video is posted to all healthcare management courses and is an important step in reaching the online graduate-student market.

A link to the video can be found:

http://

media.quinnipiac.edu/

KurtandSteveatQU

(L) Steve Merz- VP/ Execu-

tive Director, Behavioral Health YNNH

(R) Kurt Barwis- President/CEO, Bristol Hospital

The “Business” of Healthcare Event

Quinnipiac University, career de-

velopment office, held a panel

with seven professionals from a

wide-range of healthcare organi-

zations to discuss their career

paths and respond to students’

questions about entering the job

market. Sharon Porter, Bristol-

Myers Squibb, Olivia Thergood,

LectureLinx, Mostafa Elhagger

Johnson & Johnson, Vanessa

Rubano, Boehringer Ingelheim,

Paul Barclay, Pfizer, Jessica Gould,

Z-Medical, and Krysta Fraise Pro-

Health Physicians joined together

to discuss preparation, interview-

ing, and skill-building processes for

finding and landing a job in the

healthcare industry. QU-ACHE

attended this informative event,

along side other students, who

were interested in hearing about

the “business” of healthcare. This

intimate setting gave the QU-

ACHE members, as well as other

captivated students, the oppor-

tunity to get firsthand answers to

career-related questions.

The panelists provided strategic approaches for use during the job and internship search. Sever-al panelists were Quinnipiac alum and shared advice on how to employ the school alumni net-

work to make connections. Tenac-ity was highlighted as key to a suc-cessful job search.

“This video

is an im-

portant step

in reaching

the online

graduate–

student

market.”

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So, You Want a Healthcare Management Internship? What Should I Do?

QU-ACHE collaborated with the School of

Business’s Career Development Depart-

ment on a career seminar. This event,

held March 2016, focused on successfully

beginning your career in healthcare man-

agement through an internship. In this

session, Jill Ferrall, associate dean career

development, walked through a compre-

hensive job search strategy: how to build

a resume, how to approach the interview

process, and the importance of network-

ing.

Professor Angela Mattie reviewed the

healthcare management field and pre-

sented specific internship opportunities in

healthcare. She stressed the importance

of gaining specific healthcare knowledge

through a healthcare management spe-

cific internship. Mattie said: “...given the

complex challenges of the field, it is im-

portant that students gain valuable do-

main knowledge and this should occur

through studies, but more importantly

through a healthcare management spe-

cific internship.” Students left energized

and prepared to begin their summer in-

ternship job search.

This summer, ACHE students have been

accepted into internships with organiza-

tions which include: Qualidigm®, Middle-

sex Hospital and VA Connecticut Health

Care System.

QU-ACHE Hosts: “Career Speed Networking”

Quinnipiac University’s Chapter of the

American College of Healthcare Execu-

tives brought current students, alumni,

and industry professionals together this

past December. The event was informal-

ly referred to as “Career Speed Dating”

giving students the opportunity to inter-

act with others focusing on gathering

advice about internship opportunities

and post-graduate careers. Students

engaged in discussion with table facilita-

tors who were current students, Quin-

nipiac alum and healthcare management

fellows throughout CT. Students gained

knowledge from professionals concern-

ing the job search and life in the

healthcare management industry.

Held at Quinnipiac University’s Rocky

Top Campus, the event began with a

networking session. The club’s faculty

advisor made introductory remarks, in-

troducing the planning committee and

event facilitators. The main event fol-

lowed with a lively discussions.

The speakers and facilitators in attend-

ance were one past and one current

fellow James Dia-

mond, Hartford

Healthcare and

Tiffany Fernandez,

St. Mary’s Hospital.

There were 5 Quin-

nipiac MBA-HCM

alum: Katie

Lasewicz, Marta

Czeropska, Paul

Krsiak, Rick Coppo-

la, and Jennifer

Meyers. Quinnipiac University students

who spoke about their internships in-

cluded Spencer Hess, Nathaniel Moore,

Jim Falco and Erika Edlund. Everyone

enjoyed the high-energy, informative

evening.

Qualidigm® Develops Internship Program

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“A number of QU-

ACHE members

volunteered on

behalf of the club

for the occasion.”

CTAHE’s 5th Annual East Coast Fellowship Event

Fellowships and early career opportunities were the focus of CTAHE’s 5th Annual East Coast Fellowship Event. Stu-dents and healthcare profes-sionals came together in April. A number of QU-ACHE mem-bers volunteered for the occa-sion.

The Yale New Haven Health System Institute for Excellence sponsored the event where guests heard of Marna Borgstrom’s career path to President and CEO. She shared her successful career journey with the inquisitive crowd, which started with simply fold-

ing shirts at Macy’s to her tran-sition into healthcare as a fel-low. She stressed taking every presented opportunity, even if it might not immediately jumpstart your ultimate career choice. Ms. Borgstrom also stated how important it is to respect all levels of work place structure; reflecting on her days as a hospital unit secre-tary where she came to under-stand how nurses and staff members throughout healthcare work behind the scenes to make success attain-able.

After Borgstrom finished shar-

ing her career journey, she answered several questions from the audience. Later, the fellows and young profession-als gathered for the speed net-working feature of the event. Tables lined the room where students were able to freely network and learn about fel-lowship opportunities. The night started many connec-tions between students, fel-lows, and healthcare profes-sionals.

Marna Borgstrom’s story serves as an inspiration to the future generation of healthcare leaders.

QU-ACHE Events

Qualidigm®, a national healthcare consulting and re-search organization based in Wethersfield Connecticut, designed a formal internship program. After a successful placement with Quinnipiac ACHE member and MBA stu-dent- Erika Edlund, Tim Elwell, CEO of the company and his executive team established a formal internship program beginning with an onsite group interview.

The event consisted of an overview of such departments as consulting, compliance, business development, mar-keting, finance, and admin-istration. Several Quinnipiac students attended the event and learned details about the healthcare management in-dustry.

Four QU students accepted internship opportunities at Qualidigm® this summer. Each

student is assigned a senior-level mentor and given chal-lenging assignments. Weekly intern meetings are held and according to weekly status reports: the students are learning a significant amount.

Qualidigm® has provided an excellent example of assisting young professionals in estab-lishing their career. We look forward to working with other organizations in the future.

(L-R): Steve Merz (VP/ Ex-

ecutive Director, Behavioral

Health), Professor Teresa

Tai, Angelica Walter (MBA-

HCM ’16), Gary Havican

(CTACHE President/ VP Mid-

dlesex Hospital), Marna

Borgstrom (President/CEO

YNHHS), Professor Mattie,

Alice Morgan (MBA-HCM

’16), Robyn Perry (MBA-

HCM ’17), Francis Kissi (Co-

President QUACHE), Kurt

Barwis (President/CEO, Bris-

tol Hospital)

Page 5 QU-ACHE Events

Inter-professional and Service Day Learning

Our School of Business, School of Medicine and our Organizational Leadership students participated in an Inter-professional and Service Learning Day during the spring semester. This high energy event gave students an opportunity to showcase their course projects.

One such project, Kurt Bar-wis, President/ CEO of Bristol Hospital served as a project mentor. The result of this

work was recently accepted for publication in the ACHE’s Journal of Healthcare Man-agement. In this retrospective case study, the team exam-ined how Bristol Hospital’s Emergency Care Center was successfully turned around through a shared governance model.

Francis Kissi, the president of QUACHE also served as a mentor to one of the MBA student groups. This team

examined cities across the country as QU strategically looks at building a nationwide clinical education partner-ships.

Samuel Sodnheim, MD ‘18

& Dipesh Patel, MD ‘18

“...this work

was accepted

for publication

in ACHE’s Jour-

nal of

Healthcare

Manage-

ment.”

Members of Quinnipiac Univer-

sity’s student chapter of the

American College of Healthcare

Executives (QU-ACHE) attend-

ed last year’s CT-ACHE annual

meeting in Southington, CT.

During this meeting, Francis

Kissi, president, QU-ACHE, was

appointed as a student mem-

ber to the CT-AHE board. He

joins Prof. Angela Mattie, who

has served on the regional ad-

visory board for several years,

and views CT-AHE as partners

in training the future genera-

tion of healthcare administra-

tors. “Connecticut healthcare

executives generously give

their time to advise our stu-

dents, visit our campus and

create internship and residency

opportunities. We are very

appreciative of their efforts

and contributions to our stu-

dents.”

QU-ACHE looks forward to the

2016 Annual Meeting!!

QU-ACHE Student Chapter Attends CT -AHE Annual Meeting

(L-R) Gary Havican, VP-Middlesex

Hospital; Connor Rand (MBA-HCM

’17); John Midy (MBA-HCM ’15);

Brianna Granatelli (MBA-HCM ’16);

Francis Kissi (MBA-HCM ’16); Kurt

Barwis, CEO-Bristol Hospital; Dar-

lene Stromstad, CEO-Waterbury

Hospital; Esther Chow (GPA-MHS

’16); Prof. Angela Mattie

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CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR GRADUATES!

Please join me in wishing our graduates much success as they begin this

rewarding journey as healthcare administrators.

Thank you to Robyn Perry, Francis Kissi, Nathaniel Moore, Robyn Perry, Dorothy Horne, Victoria Ferrante, Connor Rand and Prof. Angela Mattie for their contributions to this report.

Erika Edlund (MBA-HCM

‘16)

Robyn Perry and family (BS

‘16)

(L-R) Connor Rand (BS ‘16) and

Victoria Ferrante (BS ‘16)

(From L to R) Susan Maksomski (MSOL ‘15), Dean Matthew O’Connor, Heidi

Erickson (MSOL ‘17), Kenneth Richmond MD, USAF (MBA ‘15), Nathaniel

Moore (MBA-HCM ‘15), Professor Angela Mattie