Fellowship Host Locations

Fellowship Host Locations 2026-27

Connecticut

Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center – Hartford
Primary Preceptor: Mike Ryan
Work Location: On-Site

Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, a member of Trinity Health Of New England, is a 617-bed Level 1 Trauma Center, major teaching hospital, and the flagship healthcare provider for the Hartford community. Supported by more than 11,000 colleagues across the system, Saint Francis plays a central role in delivering high-quality, compassionate care to a diverse patient population.

The Saint Francis Administrative Fellowship is a one-year, project-based and operations-focused program designed to prepare early careerists for leadership roles through direct mentorship and practical experience. The Fellow will collaborate closely with executive leadership and contribute to high-impact initiatives that align with the hospital’s operational goals and strategic priorities. Reporting directly to the Saint Francis Executive Leadership Team, the Fellow will work alongside: Mike Ryan, VP Operations, Valerie Powell-Stafford, President, Syed Hussain, Chief Medical Officer, Dawn Cimmarusti LeRoy, Chief Nursing Officer, Michelle Morgan, Director HR, and Michael Rogers, Mission Leader.

Trinity Health of New England – Hartford
Primary Preceptor: Dr. Syed Hussain
Work Location: On-Site

Trinity Health Of New England is a regional healthcare system that includes Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital, Johnson Memorial Hospital, Saint Mary's Hospital, and Mercy Medical Center. Our hospitals, walk-in clinics, medical offices, specialized facilities, affiliated institutions, and foundations serve a population of nearly 3 million people and includes over 11,000 colleagues.

The administrative fellowship is a one-year program designed to transition early careerists into management positions through mentoring and projects to support high priority initiatives for Trinity Health of New England. Throughout the year, the fellow will strengthen leadership skills through numerous value-adding projects while working with regional and hospital senior executives across the region. The fellow will be fully immersed within the organization to aid in our people-centered approach while also being able to explore their own areas of interest.

Illinois

Loyola Medicine – Greater Chicago Area
Primary Preceptors: Shawn Vincent and Elizabeth Early
Work Location: On-Site

The Loyola Medicine Administrative Fellowship provides future healthcare leaders with dynamic management and leadership training across Trinity Health's only academic health system. Loyola Medicine encompasses Loyola University Medical Center, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital (community hospital), MacNeal Hospital (community/teaching hospital), and a network of ambulatory care centers across Illinois. This fellowship is regional, providing the fellow with unique opportunities to participate in system-wide initiatives in both the academic and community hospital settings within the robust Chicago healthcare market.

Fellows have a direct reporting relationship with Loyola Medicine's Executive team members including Shawn Vincent, Regional CEO and Elizabeth Early, Loyola University Medical Center's President. Through these preceptors, the program promotes learning and application of practical skills in operations, finance, and front-line management to prepare fellows for rewarding leadership careers in healthcare. Fellows also get exposure to in-depth, high-level strategic planning and other system functions, including human resources, marketing, information technology, and revenue cycle. This one-year fellowship is rotation-based with the opportunity to lead both smaller and longitudinal projects.

For more information on the Loyola experience, please visit: https://www.loyolamedicine.org/jobs/administrative-fellowship-program

Iowa

MercyOne – Des Moines
Primary Preceptor: Michael Trachta
Work Location: On-Site

MercyOne is a connected system of health care facilities and services dedicated to helping people and communities live their best life. With 22,000+ colleagues and 300+ care locations, MercyOne’s care providers and staff make health the highest priority. The system’s clinics, medical centers, hospitals, and affiliates are located throughout the state of Iowa and beyond.

The MercyOne Administrative Fellowship is a one-year learning experience designed to cultivate leaders in the field of healthcare through exposure to a wide range of operational, administrative, and strategic projects and activities identified by the fellow and their preceptor to align with the fellow’s personal and career interests. Throughout the fellowship, the fellow will develop a close working relationship with the MercyOne senior leadership team.

Mission Integration – MercyOne, Des Moines
Primary Preceptor: Pam Thomas
Work Location: On-Site

The Mission Integration Fellowship is available to provide an experiential educational opportunity for someone who is interested in a mission leadership career with a large not-for-profit multi-dimensional health care system. The Mission Integration Fellow will be engaged at the corporate level and within a local hospital ministry. Trinity Health Mission Integration professionals lead and engage in the Mission Essential Services (see below) including leadership and Catholic identity, formation, ethics, spiritual care, and community health and well-being.

A master’s degree in health care mission leadership, theology, divinity, or the equivalent (e.g., religious studies, health care ethics, etc.) is required. Applicants must have effective communications skills with the ability to relate well to individual persons, to make public presentations, be comfortable operating in a collaborative, shared leadership environment, and have personal presence characterized by a sense of honesty, integrity and caring with the ability to inspire and motivate.

Maryland

Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic – Silver Spring
Primary Preceptor: Andre Boyd
Work Location: On-Site

Formed in January 2025, the Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic region comprises Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital (Darby, Pa.), Nazareth Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.), Saint Francis Hospital (Wilmington, Del.), St. Mary Medical Center (Langhorne, Pa.), Holy Cross Hospital (Silver Spring, Md.), Holy Cross Germantown Hospital (Germantown, Md.), and their associated home health and LIFE programs, aligned joint ventures, sub-corporations, programs and services. The Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic region empowers the six Trinity Health regional health ministries to be one unified system with multiple hospitals, continuing care services and support services, operating from a position of strength across the many diverse neighborhoods we serve. Our health ministries will serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence.

The administrative fellowship is a one-year program designed to transition early careerists into management positions through mentoring and practical experiences. The program promotes learning as well as the use of practical skills in healthcare management, operations, and finance. At Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic, the fellow will strengthen their leadership skills through numerous value-adding projects, engagement with leaders, providers and colleagues, and exposure to all aspects of clinical operations.

Michigan

Supply Chain Management – Livonia
Primary Preceptors: Dameka Miller (Fellow Alumnus ’03) and Michael Martin
Work Location: Hybrid

The Trinity Health Supply Chain Administration Fellowship is designed to offer tomorrow's healthcare leaders a rewarding practical and strategic growth experience. Fellows will rotate through all supply chain disciplines and engage in projects to gain a deep understanding of hospital, clinic, and corporate healthcare operations. Fellows will also engage in supplier trade relationship projects to gain insight into business strategies, risk assessments and global supply considerations.

Dameka Miller, SVP Supply Chain Management and Michael Martin, VP of Logistics, will serve as preceptors and coordinate involvement with all levels of administration providing opportunity to develop interpersonal leadership competencies and executive presence.

Trinity Health of Michigan - Southeast Michigan
Primary Preceptors: Shannon Striebich and Alonzo Lewis (Fellow Alumnus ’94)
Work Location: On-Site

The hospitals and medical groups of Trinity Health Michigan have been serving the health needs of our communities for well over a century. Led by the founding spirit of the Sisters of Mercy, the Felician Sisters and the dedication of all who came before us, our roots run deep – both in our heritage and our service - and we honor the legacy of our founders. For most of our history, the people we serve have known us by several names – Mercy Health, Saint Mary's, St. Joseph Mercy, St. Mary Mercy, Hackley, North Ottawa Community Hospital, and IHA, among others. The story of our founders now carries us into a new, exciting era - united as one Michigan health system. In 2022 our systems joined together in adopting the name of our sponsor company - Trinity Health Michigan, including 9 acute care hospitals, 13 medical centers, 23 Urgent Care locations, and 25 Continuing Care locations. Trinity Health Michigan employs over 20,000 colleagues and 3,800 Physicians and Advance Practice Professionals. The region generates $4.7 billion in net revenue annually and returns over $177 million in community benefit ministry to our communities.

The Trinity Health of Michigan Fellow will report directly to Shannon Striebich, President & CEO, Trinity Health- Michigan Market and Alonzo Lewis, President of Trinity Health Ann Arbor and Livingston Hospitals. The fellowship is project based and individualized to fit the specific interests of the Fellow. This one-year program promotes learning as well as use of practical skills in hospital management, operations, and finance. The Fellow will have exposure to all aspects of clinical operations across Trinity Michigan and will have the opportunity to work with leadership teams and support project work across the State.

Trinity Health IHA Medical Group – Ann Arbor
Primary Preceptor: Mary Beth Morgan
Work Location: On-Site

Established in 1994, Trinity Health IHA Medical Group is one of the largest multi-specialty medical groups in Michigan delivering more than one million patient visits each year, practicing based on the guiding principle: our family caring for yours.

Trinity Health IHA Medical Group is based in Ann Arbor and employs more than 3,000 staff, including nearly 1,000 providers consisting of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, care managers and midwives in more than 150 practice locations across Southeast Michigan.

The Administrative Fellowship will be project based to give the fellow a comprehensive experience of medical group leadership. Fellows will work with physician and administrative leaders across many departments including operations, quality, IT, strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, marketing, business intelligence, HR, finance, and project management. The Administrative Fellow will join a dynamic and growing organization dedicated to excellent patient care.

Examples of past fellow projects:

Led a cross-functional team to optimize patient online scheduling on both MyChart and the Trinity Health IHA Medical Group website
Established the Patient Family Advisory Council to collect patient feedback and integrate insights into leadership decision-making processes
Managed the Weekly Operations Huddle, coordinating meetings with directors and senior leadership to review outcomes and strategic initiatives
Led a cost-saving initiative securing enterprise vendor contracts, resulting in over $100,000 in savings through cost analysis, negotiation, and vendor selection oversight
Initiated and implemented a grab bag program to assist patients experiencing food insecurity, facilitating access to essential community resources
Established and implemented an Incident Command Structure, enhancing organizational response and coordination during emergencies

Trinity Health West Michigan Medical Group – Grand Rapids
Primary Preceptor: Julie Lepzinski
Work Location: On-Site

Trinity Health West Michigan Medical Group is a multi-specialty physician network that employs more than 800 physicians and advanced practice professionals in Grand Rapids, Grand Haven, Muskegon, and the Lakeshore. Our care model centers around the patient relationship within a Catholic faith-based setting, in which we become lifelong health partners with patients and their family.

Examples of past fellow projects:

Led a cross-functional team to optimize patient online scheduling on both MyChart and the Trinity Health IHA Medical Group website
Established the Patient Family Advisory Council to collect patient feedback and integrate insights into leadership decision-making processes
Managed the Weekly Operations Huddle, coordinating meetings with directors and senior leadership to review outcomes and strategic initiatives
Led a cost-saving initiative securing enterprise vendor contracts, resulting in over $100,000 in savings through cost analysis, negotiation, and vendor selection oversight
Initiated and implemented a grab bag program to assist patients experiencing food insecurity, facilitating access to essential community resources
Established and implemented an Incident Command Structure, enhancing organizational response and coordination during emergencies

Trinity Health Medical Groups – Livonia
Primary Preceptor: John Caruso
Work Location: Hybrid

The selected Trinity Health Medical Groups (THMG) Fellow will get exposure and hands-on learning experiences that cover the gamut of medical group executive leadership roles, including operations, strategy, finance, planning and development, quality, patient experience, and business intelligence. Trinity Health Medical Groups represent 5,720 FTE providers (physicians and APP’s) among 15 regional medical groups across the country.

The Administrative Fellowship will be project based to give the fellow a comprehensive experience of medical group leadership, with the projects focused on mission-critical issues that are of practical importance to our medical groups and patients. Fellows will work with physician and administrative leaders across operations, quality, strategic planning, business intelligence, finance, and clinical arenas. There are several project-focused areas that could serve as a focus area for the selected fellow, depending on the fellow’s interest, including:

Strategic growth of Trinity Health Medical Groups
Optimizing the financial performance of Trinity Health Medical Groups
Improving hypertension control among our patients
Optimizing revenue cycle performance among Trinity Health Medical Groups
Establishing a medical group-focused peer review process for Trinity Health
Improving online scheduling for Trinity Health Medical Group patients
Improving patient access to Trinity Health Medical Group clinics
Organization of Trinity Health Safety Net Clinics
Improving provider efficiency within TogetherCare, Trinity Health’s Epic EMR instance
Establishing a 24/7 virtual primary care platform
Develop standardized workflows for core processes like referrals, prescription refills, etc.

John Caruso, VP Medical Group and Ambulatory Strategy will serve as the preceptor to the fellow. The fellow will collaborate with all Trinity Health Medical Group colleagues depending on the specific initiative(s) and/or projects assigned.

Trinity Information Services – Livonia
Primary Preceptor: Matt Trimmer
Work Location: Hybrid

The Trinity Information Services (TIS) Administrative Fellowship offers postgraduates an exceptional opportunity to hone their skills and leadership potential within the intricate landscape of information technology at a national healthcare system. This position provides comprehensive exposure to Trinity Health's extensive operations, encompassing IT functions in both enterprise and regional settings, planning, finance, and strategy, through diverse project work, informational meetings, and shadowing experiences.

As a OneTIS Fellow, you will have the opportunity to engage in and lead projects that support the technological infrastructure and the entirety of Trinity Health across the continuum of care. The fellowship is designed to offer flexibility, allowing you to gain exposure to a wide range of system operations under the guidance of the Preceptor. This experience will enable you to delve into leadership and executive decision-making processes, business operations, strategic planning aligned with organizational goals, application implementation and optimization, process improvement, and project management.

Throughout the fellowship, you can expect to participate in various activities and experiences, including:

Attending Information Technology Executive Leadership Team meetings.
Engaging in collaborative discussions to develop OneTIS strategy through Business Management Meetings, OneTIS Town Hall Meetings, and IT Operations Lunch & Learn Meetings.
Participating in IT Operations Senior Leadership meetings.
Creating high-visibility deliverables that contribute to innovative program development and design.
Shaping workforce leadership and management strategies.
Designing and organizing deliverables for presentations to local, regional, and system-level executives.
Collaborating on regional or Ministry-level submissions for strategic financial planning and budget processes.
Networking with leaders across the system.
Traveling to various Regional Health Ministries, offering unique learning environments, networking opportunities, and insights into day-to-day operations in all care settings.

This fellowship is structured to provide a comprehensive and enriching experience, equipping you for future leadership roles in the field of information technology within the healthcare industry.