WHA Health Care Leadership Academy

The health care sector has been operating through constant change for decades while navigating rapidly advancing technologies, evolving standards of care, changing patient and population demographics, cost pressures, evolving fee and reimbursement models, and complexities in the legal and regulatory environment. With significant future change on the horizon, this transformation and disruption creates a need to build resilient and capable health care leaders with the skills to successfully navigate the complexities and opportunities of the future of health care.

Hospital leaders have a particular need to understand the “business of health care” so they can contribute in more meaningful ways to better patient care, cost management and effective service delivery.

In response to this need, the Wisconsin Hospital Association, in partnership with the Wisconsin School of Business Center for Professional & Executive Development (CPED), created the WHA Health Care Leadership Academy.

About the Program

The WHA Health Care Leadership Academy’s curriculum is focused on topics that have been requested by Wisconsin health care leaders. The Wisconsin School of Business Center for Professional & Executive Development (CPED) instructors, along with WHA leadership staff, will be the primary instructors for these topics. 

At the conclusion of the program, participants will be able to demonstrate their knowledge learned in order to successfully navigate the complexities and opportunities of the future of health care.

Who Should Attend

This program is open to clinician and non-clinician staff and is targeted toward two groups of people within the hospital:

• Leadership staff who aspire to promote into the C-Suite
• New C-Suite leaders who want to continue to promote up within the hospital

Participation in the academy is open to WHA member hospital staff only.

Benefits

Graduates will earn a Wisconsin School of Business Center for Professional & Executive Development (CPED) program certificate.

In addition, graduates will be extended the following benefits related to participation in the Wisconsin School of Business Professional MBA (PMBA) program:

1. Priority consideration for admission in the PMBA program. (Minimum admission requirements, as prescribed by the Wisconsin School of Business, must be met.)
2. 10% tuition discount on the PMBA program (approx. $7,500 value).
3. Credits toward a health care leadership badge, as required for a PMBA (number of credits is yet to be determined).
4. Eligible to waive up to 12 credit hours of graduate coursework in the PMBA program, if obtained as part of graduate coursework from the University of Wisconsin-Madison or another AACSB-accredited institution. (Each candidate will be reviewed and approved based on their academic credentials.)

For more information on the PMBA curriculum, click here.