Administrative Fellowship Programs

Administrative fellows will be part of a longstanding and evolving health system, allowing them the opportunity to embrace the mission and ministry of the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis. Each year three Administrative fellows are selected and spend their first six months in functional and operational rotations at our System Services Center in Springfield, Illinois, and then transferring into an operational role within our system. At the end of their 18-month fellowship, our goal for each fellow that successfully completed their internship is to find permanent placement in an operational leadership role based on the needs of the local systems where they will leverage their experience to help implement HSHS programs.

Administrative Fellows report directly to HSHS Senior Vice President and Chief Operations Officer, Kathy Donovan.

The Fellows will spend the first six months of the program shadowing senior operational leaders to orient operations of the system. Project based work in operations providing overlapping involvement with human resources, quality, mission, communication, strategy, supply chain and finance. In the 12 months to follow, fellows will transition into the hospital setting in an operational role at either HSHS St. Vincent’s Hospital Green Bay, Wisconsin or HSHS St. John’s Hospital Springfield, Illinois

HSHS fellows can expect the opportunity to attend local and system board meetings, travel with leaders to locations across the system (Wisconsin and Illinois) and attend professional development conferences.

HSHS is committed to providing the exposure and experience needed to successfully lead operational functions within an acute care setting after 18 months. Placement in operational leadership role is the ideal end goal for this fellowship program. Growing our future leaders of health care one fellowship at a time.

The application for the 2024 Fellowships will open on July 1, 2023. The deadline to apply will be Friday, September 15, 2023. 

• Proof of graduation from baccalaureate program and enrollment in graduate school curriculum to date from a CAHME-accredited program. 
• Two reference letters - one reference letter must be from current MHA program director or advisor 
• Resume 
• Written personal statement of your fellowship and career objectives, including:
  • What you will bring to HSHS in furthering our mission
  • Why you are pursuing an administrative fellowship
  • Your career goals and how the HSHS Administrative Fellowship will benefit you
  • All items must be included in one PDF and uploaded in the resume portion of the online application.