Program Description

Established in 2000, the St. Vincent Fellowship Program is an innovative and didactic one-year program tailored to meet the successful individual's needs, goals and objectives. Experiences are provided in six areas:

• Mission & Vision: Comprehending the organization's mission, vision and values.

• Organizational Competence: Understanding what differentiates the organization from its competition and how sustainable competence is created in those areas.

• Strategy Development: Understanding the organization's strategies to strengthen core competencies which sustain the vitality of the mission.

• Operations: Understanding how work in the organization is structured, how the organization operationalizes strategy through care delivery design, and issues associated with the delivery of care.

• Organizational Capability: Understanding what enables the organization to deliver care and how it structures itself to deliver care.

• Organizational Performance: Understanding how the organization measures its performance to further its capability and continuously improve operational performance.

Depending on his/her goals, objectives and previous experience, the fellow may further narrow his/her focus in one or more of the above areas. Regardless, the fellow will participate in a broad range of assignments that expose him/her to the continuum of care offered within St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital and St.Vincent Health, including teaching, community and rural hospital operations, long-term acute care, home health, hospice, behavioral health, health maintenance organization, physician hospital organization, physician practices and ambulatory care.

A senior Hospital executive provides oversight of the program and facilitates the learning experience.