For Immediate Release
Date: July 20, 2007
Contact: Charlene Wilkins
(703) 670-1236
Tracy Miles, director of Materials Management, Marty Ward, director of Radiology & Imaging Services, and Arash Dabestani, director of Pharmacy, graduated from The Advisory Board Company’s Academy Fellowship in Washington, D.C. Chosen by hospital administration to participate, they successfully completed the program’s accelerated leadership development curriculum.
The Advisory Board Academy Fellowship was founded in 2002 to assist partner hospitals and health systems in selecting, developing, and challenging their highest potential leadership talent. Working with partner hospitals, the Fellowship provides intensive business school-style, healthcare-specific, executive leadership educations, together with a variety of applied learning opportunities.
Over an 18-month period, Potomac’s trio participated in six, three-day development intensives (day-long classes) centered on a wide range of current leadership requirements in healthcare.
Potomac Hospital partnered in 2005 with the Advisory Board to bolster the skills and contributions of these promising employees. Advisory Board Fellowship participants have called the experience “life-changing” and “empowering,” with 98 percent of fellows saying that the program has made them more effective leaders and 94 percent asserting that the program has enhanced their strategic leadership abilities.
“It was a phenomenal experience,” says Ward. “We discovered the reason it was called ‘intensives’ very early into the fellowship and were fortunate to study some of the most successful leaders and companies in the country. We learned about several of today's hot points in leadership, how to develop efficient initiatives and the best ways to execute ideas and strategies.”
The participants didn’t go it alone -- they were mentored by Greg Branner, controller, and Frankie Picard, vice president, who coached them through the entire process.
“Our coaches helped us by reinforcing learning objectives, discussing methods of implementation and providing assessments of our progress along the way,” said Marty.
The Advisory Board Company serves a membership of approximately 2,500 healthcare organizations across the country. Its mission is to identify and analyze best practices within the healthcare setting and then to provide the insight and direction required to ensure both strategic and operational excellence. Its staff prepares over 40 major studies and thousands of short-answer reports annually to assist in sharing best practices information.
The Advisory Board Academies serve healthcare organizations by bringing a national-caliber curriculum, developed in partnership with faculty from Johns Hopkins University, Harvard Business School, and the Harvard School of Public Health, to the hospital setting.
