Atrium Health Strategic Services

About Atrium Health

Atrium Health, previously known as Carolina's Healthcare System is one of the leading healthcare organizations in the Southeast and one of the most comprehensive, not-for-profit systems in the country with more than 900 care locations. The system includes more than 7,600 licensed beds, employs nearly 60,000 people and accounts for almost 12 million patient interactions each year. Carolina's Medical Center (CMC) is the flagship hospital located in Charlotte, North Carolina and operates at two locations about 1 mile from each other. CMC serves as the region's only Level 1 Trauma Center and is an approved transplant center for heart, kidney, pancreas, and liver. It also serves as one of North Carolina's five Academic Medical Center Teaching Hospitals, providing residency training for more than 200 physicians in 15 specialties and serves as a satellite for the medical school at UNC Chapel Hill. Situated at CMC is the Levine Cancer Institute academic and research headquarters, Carolina's Rehabilitation, and Levine Children's Hospital, which is consistently ranked among the top 50 children's hospitals in the nation.

Atrium Health has a mission to improve health, elevate hope, and advance healing for all. Their vision is to the first and best choice for care. They recognize that their employees are their most valuable asset and have identified four core values including caring, commitment, integrity, and teamwork. Atrium Health (Carolina's Healthcare System is CARF accredited which signals provider's commitment to continually improving services, encouraging feedback and serving the community. They are also apart of The Joint Commission's Disease-Specific Care Certification Program designed to evaluate clinical programs across the continuum of care.

Atrium Health is lead by President and Chief Executive Officer, Eugene A. Woods, MBA, MHA, FACHE. To learn more about Mr. Woods and the rest of the leadership team click here. Atrium Health's key market competitors include Novant Health and CaroMont Health.

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Experience

This summer I am interning for Atrium Health Strategic Services Group (SSG). SSG functions to develop and deploy strategy across the entire entity, business development, facility and capital planning, regulatory planning and development, project management, innovation, and business analytics. This department created the over strategic plan, "Destination 2020" which focuses on three domains; Value, Affordability and Growth. Throughout my internship experience I have been exposed to all three of these domains in varying capacities. Prior to beginning this internship I set several objectives which include:

Critical Thinking: Continue to develop my critical thinking skills through the deployment of the Atrium Health Strategic Plan, and more specifically in the domains of Growth, Value, and Affordability.
Presentation skills: Develop presenting skills which includes story boarding, analyzing data to make meaningful use out of it, designing the information collected into a presentation and then effectively communicating that story.
Networking: Honing the ability to connect with people and build rapport in a short time frame during my internship. Create long lasting relationships that develop into mentor-ships as well as network with other interns and students.
Perspective: Gain exposure into the 7th largest health system in the country and broaden my strategic planning experience for a wider perspective.

So far this summer I have been plugged in to a wide variety of projects. The image to the right is from shadowing the Mobile Medicine and getting a tour of their airplane hangars and helicopter. Please click on the images below to learn more about each project.