MHA Summer Residency Placements

What is a summer residency?

The 10-12-week intensive summer residency placement allows students to apply the knowledge they have accumulated in the classroom to real-world challenges that organizations face. Students pursue opportunities across the health sector, including placements within integrated health systems, academic medical centers, insurers, and a variety of other types of healthcare organizations. 

Class of 2023

Integrated Health Systems

  • HealthPartners
    • Preceptor: Director, Hospital Medicine
    • Project: APC Care Model Development
  •  Mercyhealth
    • Preceptor: Vice President, Value-based Care & Population Health
    • Project: Lung Cancer Screening Community Outreach
  • Allina Health (2)
    • Preceptors: Director, Population Health / Director, System Quality
    • Projects: Expansion Strategy for Health-Related Social Needs (HRSN) Screening in Inpatient Settings / Evaluation & Expansion of the Well-Being Champion Program
  • JPS Health Network
    • Preceptor: Chief Strategy Officer
    • Project: True Worth Clinic Throughput Optimization

Academic Medicine

  • Cleveland Clinic
    • Preceptor: Program Manager
    • Project: Emergency Department Workflow and Playbook Development
  •  UCHealth
    • Preceptor: Vice President, Operations
    • Project: Tower 3 and AMC Master Refresh Capacity Timeline & New Floor Business Proposal
  • Mayo Clinic (3)
    • Preceptors: Operations Administrator/ Operations Administrator/ Operations Administrator
    • Projects: Expansion of Outpatient Sports Medicine Service Line / Senior Services Scheduling Priorities / On-Call Provider List Analysis and Transition
  • University of California, Irvine
    • Preceptor: Executive Director, Ambulatory Care
    • Project: Comprehensive Spine Center Analysis 

Insurance and Consulting

  • Guidehouse
    • Preceptor: Associate Director
    • Project: Child Welfare Transformation
  • CVS Health
    • Preceptor: Senior Manager, Rx Professional Practice
    • Project: Prescription Monitoring Program Integration Workflow
  • Prime Therapeutics (2)
    • Preceptor: Director of Strategic Initiatives (2)
    • Projects: Assessing the impact of Prime Therapeutics’ programs on Client Star Ratings / Consumer Digital Solutions
  • Hennepin Health
    • Preceptor: Chief Medical Officer
    • Project: Mapping Hennepin Health Clinical Services

Other Healthcare Organizations

  • Medtronic
    • Preceptor: Director, Market Access
    •  Project: Economic Projection Software Improvement and Intelligence Information Dissemination
  • Johnson & Johnson (3)
    • Preceptor: Company Group Chairman of Ethicon Medical Devices (3)
    • Project: Go-to-Market Strategies Across Global Ethicon / Defining the process for identifying New Opportunities for Ethicon / Project Manatee
  • Foundation for Cancer Care in Tanzania (FCCT)
    • Preceptor: Volunteer Consultant
    • Project: Pro Forma, Staffing and Patient Flow Plan for the Radiation Center at Kilmanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC)
  • Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation (2)
    • Preceptor: Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives and Process Improvement (2)
    • Project: Fall-Risk Assessment Tool Analysis / Children and Families Portfolio Future Product Management
© 2015 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. Privacy Statement