Capstone Project Presentations
As part of the Capstone Integrative Seminar scheduled at the end of the MHA program, second-year MHA Program students are organized into teams of three or four to tackle select projects submitted by provider organizations in the Seattle area. These are short-term projects designed to provide students with maximum hands-on experience. The student teams work hard to produce a report of real use to participating organizations.
Recent MHA Capstone projects:
- Hospital Admission Patient Welcome & Orientation (video
and hard copy)
St Francis Hospital, Federal Way, WA - Developing a Business Plan to Build a Geriatric Practice in the
Kent-Des Moines Service Area
UW Medicine Neighborhood Clinics, Seattle, WA - Developing a Business Plan to Build an Eye Services Practice at
the UW Medicine Belltown Clinic
UW Medicine Neighborhood Clinics, Seattle, WA - Implementation of an Urgent Care Service Based in the Primary Care
Setting of the Issaquah Neighborhood Clinic
UW Medicine Neighborhood Clinics, Seattle, WA - Operational Integration of a Strategic Environmental
Sustainability Program
EnviroMason, VMMC Conservation Initiative
Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA - Mama Maria's Path to Sustainability
Mama Maria Wellness Clinic (Kenya), Seattle, WA - Building Benchmarks and Optimizing the Utilization of Interpreter
Services
Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA
In the Executive MHA program, most students do individual Capstone projects connected to their place of employment, although teams may be formed. EMHA presentations are held at the end of summer term.
Recent EMHA Capstone projects:
- Fixing the Phones at Sound Family Medicine
Sound Family Medicine, Puyallup, WA - Pharmacy Order Imaging (Cerner)
UW Medicine, Seattle, WA - Business Plan Development-Cardiac Stem Cell Program
Providence St Vincent Medical Center, Portland, OR - Strategic Assessment/Recommendations for Operating Rooms at
Overlake Hospital
Overlake Hospital Medical Center, Bellevue, WA - Emergency Department Misutilization
Highline Medical Center, Burien, WA - Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Data Driven
Quality Improvement Program Within OHSU Family Medicine
Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR - The DNA of Compliance
Yakima Regional Medical and Cardiac Center, Yakima, WA - Corporate Compliance Auditing and Monitoring
Seattle Children's, Seattle, WA - Selection of an Enterprise-Wide Electronic Document Control System
and Development of a Departmental Implementation and Migratory Plan
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA - Decreasing VAP through Appropriate use of Sedation in the Trauma
Surgical ICU
Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA - Epic Device Integration
Cedars Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, CA - Marketing Plan for NWHMC Diagnostic Imaging Department
Northwest Hospital Medical Center, Seattle, WA - Facilitating the Implementation of Hepatitis C Therapeutic
Innovations for HIV Co-Infected Patients through Network Analysis of
Individual HIV Care Delivery Systems
Roche Labs, Portland, OR - Developing a Comprehensive Bone Health Center at Swedish Ballard
Campus
Swedish Health Services, Seattle, WA - Improving Knowledge Management and Workflow with Information
Technology
Veterans Health Administration Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA - Evaluation of Rehabilitation Department (inpatient and
outpatient)
Providence Regional Medical Center Everett, Everett, WA - Demonstrating the Business Case for Quality: Excess Cost and
Length of Stay Associated with Selected Patient Harm Events
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA - Cerner Security Information and Event Management with
Arcsight
Perot Systems Corporation, Seattle, WA - Economic Analysis of Early Intervention and Risk Based Prevention
for the Access to the Baby and Child Dentistry Program
Department of Pediatric Dentistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA - Optimizing the Role of Acute Rehabilitation Therapy
Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA - Health Record Bank Pilot Patient and Provider Participation
Project Evaluation
Washington State Health Care Authority, Olympia, WA