Fellowship Objectives

• Lead a project or sprint. May involve leading a small-scale projects or teams, contributing to large-scale healthcare operations, or gaining exposure to the consequences of complex decisions.
• Involvement with a transformational change project to improve operational efficiency, patient care, or clinical outcomes.
• Exposure to strategic planning and decision-making processes, including implementing new initiatives, turnaround strategies, or process optimization.
• Influence and collaborate across departments.
• Community engagement exposure, may involve patient or caregiver advocacy, health education, governmental affairs, or supporting hospital outreach programs.
• Define personal leadership brand/style and create a Growth Plan under a Coach.

Organization Objectives

• Provide a bridge from academia to practice
• Expose talented individuals to the philosophy, mission, and values of Intermountain
• Provide the opportunity for executives of Intermountain to develop and exercise teaching and mentoring skills
• Provide recruiting support to help Fellows find opportunities within the system post-fellowship, as appropriate

Process and Timeline

• The fellowship is a one-year rotation-based program beginning in midsummer
• A competitive salary is offered to candidates each year Intermountain pays for the Fellow to attend one conference during his or her tenure
• Intermountain offers a moving stipend to Fellows relocating from out of state.

Projects provide Fellows the opportunity to contribute their skills, abilities, and talents to major projects and initiatives that impact our business, the lives of our patients, and the future of healthcare.

Below is a partial list of outstanding projects and initiatives in which past Fellows have played a major role in orchestrating at Intermountain Healthcare:

Proactive Care

• Assisting in the development and tracking of metrics for the Physician Payment Model and creating a portal for physicians to view and track these metrics
• Developing a Population Health strategy for the Park City/Heber Valley Region
• Developing a risk-adjusted staffing model for care coordinators

Patient Engagement 

• Assembling key stakeholders and leading the Patient Engagement Technology Workstream, and developing the charter for the committee
• Designing a telemedicine strategic plan for the health system, and preparing for a tele-stroke pilot
• Operationalizing the Community Care Management (CCM) pilot program at McKay-Dee Hospital

Strategic Planning and Analysis

• Developing a service line strategic plan for Developmental Pediatrics and Autism
• Building 3-year caregiver wellbeing strategic plan and tactics
• Leading the strategic expansion of LGBTQ+ Health serve offerings and care coordination
• Developing a strategic plan for Sports & Performance Medicine

Operations and Continuous Improvement

• Authoring a grant to create the Behavioral Health Learning Network, a collective of internal and external caregivers aimed to reduce the prevalence of behavioral health-related ED visits in adolescents
• Developing a pediatric telehospitalist program under Intermountain’s Virtual Hospital System
• Leading projects to improve caregiver safety outcomes at Primary Children’s Hospital
• Facilitating a process improvement project between the operating room and the hematology/oncology clinic to reduce serious safety events and near misses
• Leading a study on the future of the Intermountain Operating Model
• Leading enterprise-wide workforce simplification project for nursing to increase engagement and mitigate burnout

Community Health

• Developing the 2023-2025 Community Health Implementation Strategy through prioritizing findings from Community Health Needs Assessment
• Organizing Community Health Flu Shot Clinic at LDS Hospital
• Performing gap analysis on community behavioral health offering to underrepresented communities
• Identifying opportunities for improvement of system suicide prevention strategy

Telehealth

• Designing and executing a business plan to develop and launch a Virtual Primary Care program for the system
• Designing program structure including staffing needs, process workflows, financial structure, marketing and communication 
• Outlining short and long-term program development strategies to add additional services and expand to new audiences and markets

Applications require the following materials to be submitted via the job posting on our careers page by the deadline to be considered complete. An incomplete application or an application received after the deadline will not be considered. Please read the job posting for the Administrative Fellowship on our careers page thoroughly for general updates or changes to this list:

• Resume or CV.
• Essay discussing how the Fellowship fits in to your career goals and objectives (see job posting for prompt). 
• Unofficial Graduate Transcript (Education and graduation status will be verified upon hire). 
• Two letters of recommendation (one academic, one professional). Please read job posting for information on where to send letters of reference.

Interviews with the top candidates will take place at Intermountain Healthcare’s headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Do you have questions about eligibility, the application process, or other internships? Check out our list of Frequently Asked Questions to learn more about the Administrative Fellowship.