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Beckwith Fellows Leadership Program

The Program
Providing Strategic Leadership Training
A Network of Support
Application and Enrollment

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The Program

Do you truly know what changes are on the horizon for health care in the next 10 years? Does your hospital or health system have the knowledge and tools in place to meet those challenges? How will your health care organization have a definitive plan to prepare your leaders for tomorrow?

The Beckwith Fellows Leadership Program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, Pa, can help you answer these and other important questions about your organization’s future.

Sponsored by UPMC’s Beckwith Institute for Innovation in Patient Care, this comprehensive leadership program focuses on helping hospitals and health systems meet the monumental challenges that will arise in health care in the next decade and beyond. To be successful, health care organizations must act now to develop leaders who are capable of charting the course for future success.

The Beckwith Fellows program is unique because it:

• Tailors information specifically for vice president or aspiring vice president-level leaders
• Provides a hands-on approach to maximize learning
• Promotes a transformational leadership approach to health care and leadership issues
• Offers executive mentoring online or by telephone for one year
• Includes leadership assessments to identify each participant’s strengths and developmental opportunities
• Develops skills and uses cutting-edge tools that participants can put into use immediately (such as Toyota Production Systems principles, financial tools, and totally computerized performance and productivity systems)
• Keeps enrollment fees reasonable and a class sizes small to give each participant highly individualized attention
• Promotes effective use of resources — the right amount, at the right time, for maximum impact
• Focuses on improving quality, reducing costs, and developing strategies that impact the bottom line (UPMC fellows’ leadership projects saved the health system $500,000 in the first two years alone and identified potential savings in the millions of dollars)

A Network of Support

After completion of the five day symposium, each participant is assigned to a mentor at UPMC who provides executive coaching. This invaluable support is available for one year — up to two hours per month throughout the program — and can occur online or by telephone. The mentor provides a guaranteed reply within 48 hours of receiving the Fellow’s question.

Whether seeking executive level advice about an operational or strategic problem, or resolving issues related to a project, Beckwith Fellows can be sure that support is just a phone call or an e-mail away.

Application and Enrollment

Each Beckwith Fellow must be nominated for consideration by his or her chief executive officer or vice president of nursing or patient care services. All interested candidates must submit an application for review and approval by the UPMC Beckwith Institute selection committee. To receive an application or more information regarding the program, contact us.

Applications for the June 2004 program will be available beginning in January.