Leading in healthcare

Green Templeton College will co-host an executive education course for healthcare administrators and managers with the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah and Ensign College of Public Health in Ghana.

The course – entitled ‘Leading in healthcare: navigating in turbulent times’ – will be held in-person in Kpong, Ghana from 11 to 13 November 2021.

It will explore ideas and strategies for leaders in healthcare to meet the needs of their system, aiming to hone leadership skills in an ever-changing landscape where there is demand for the highest standard of patient care while maintaining low costs to create profit.

Green Templeton’s Dr Jacob McKnight will provide the teaching on day two, focusing on two areas: how to collect and analyze data to help organisations become more efficient and how to pass findings on to frontline workers; and patient safety and quality, including audits, root cause analysis and continual improvement. 

‘The pandemic has provided a further incentive to make sure we keep all patients and facilities safe and deliver consistently high quality care,’ he said. ‘I’m really looking forward to this course because I think with fairly simple and short instruction, we can pass on some highly effective tools and approaches that can improve care and save lives.’

Dr Knight is a senior health systems researcher. His research focuses on the management of health facilities in low- and middle-income countries.

Teaching on day one will be provided by Dr Steve Walston, MHA Director at the David Eccles School of Business. He will focus on learning skills to adapt and foster in a turbulent healthcare environment, looking at topics including making difficult ethical decisions, fostering strategic management and delegation. 

This is the latest collaboration between Green Templeton and the David Eccles School of Business. Earlier this year, we co-hosted a Global Value-Based Healthcare Symposium which included a keynote address from former US Secretary for Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt, and in the previous academic year, we joined together for a series of healthcare webinars.