Leapfrog Group Bruce Bradley Fellowship 2023 Application

Fellows will gain expertise in Leapfrog’s measurement of and advocacy for health care quality and safety, as well as effective methods of steerage. After training, Leapfrog expects that fellows will become recognized leaders, facilitating and promoting employers’ selection of higher-quality, safer, high-value care locally, regionally and nationally.

Check Also:  Foster Youth (FYI) 2023 Internship Program |Apply Now

The Leapfrog Group seeks applications from experienced professionals who work actively with or for organizations that purchase health care for employees or who lead community organizations such as business coalitions that advocate for purchasers. Applicants can be directors of coalitions who work with employers; HR or benefits professionals for public or private employers; or individuals playing influential roles in corporate medical
departments, or in benefits or health plan design.

Special consideration will be given to individuals or pairs of applicants who represent both a community coalition
and a corporate representative within the coalition. We have found great value in having two committed members
(or one applicant playing dual roles) in the same community. Corporate representatives who also participate
actively in national coalitions such as the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchasing Coalitions, the Business Group on Health, or the Business Roundtable are encouraged to apply; synergies among purchaser organizations will be a specific focus.

The fellowship is not designed for health care providers, or those who are employed by a company where more
than 50% of revenue is through health care services, unless those individuals also have responsibilities as an
employer providing health care benefits.

The selection committee will favor candidates with:

• Passion and enthusiasm for promoting purchasers’ role in health care system improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement innovative ideas that successfully create positive change in
  their organization and/or community.
• The position, connections and collaborative skill to influence purchasers and health systems in their
  communities.
• Leapfrog will select three Fellows for the 2023 program.

You may Like: EPP Group Traineeships & Programmes For EU Citizens

Fellowship Objectives

Fellows will participate in a variety of learning opportunities throughout the year, attending three in-person (or
virtual) events (including the Leapfrog Annual Meeting) and four webinars. Each in-person event will last one to
two days, and will include facility tours, networking opportunities, and specific educational programming. Fellows
will receive reading and reference materials to supplement these learning events.

The fundamental learning will come from your project. Fellows will be asked to design (with assistance) an effort
for their own community or organization that would use principles learned during the fellowship as well as
Leapfrog Survey results or Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades to increase the safety and quality of care received by
their population. These projects can take upwards of 100 hours throughout the year and many past fellows have
found that it works best to incorporate their projects into their current roles with leadership approval. Fellows can
expect to build out a project timeline and present a mock presentation. Fellows will then present these projects to
Leapfrog members and other stakeholders in December 2023.

We expect our fellows will develop a relationship with Leapfrog such that they become recognized national leaders
in quality and safety measures and advocates for transparency. After completion, we expect fellows to remain
highly engaged with Leapfrog leadership, play an ongoing role in promoting health care value on a national level,
and to contribute substantially to the safety and quality dialogue in their own communities.

Fellowship Content

Leapfrog expects that fellows will gain an understanding of the:

• Politics and science of measuring health care performance
• Commonalities among Leapfrog and other rating systems
• Implications of quality and safety on lives and dollars
• Effective methods of steerage toward higher-quality, safer facilities
• Case studies of effective quality improvement
• Motivations of hospitals and ASCs that do and do not report safety measures
• Incorporation of safety and quality into the health care value equation
• Responses to frequent objections or criticisms about measurement of quality

Fellows will also gain from the opportunity to learn from and speak with national experts in the areas of
hospital and ASC safety, quality improvement, national health policy, health benefit plan design, and health
industry leadership

Funding

In addition to receiving a $3000 stipend, Leapfrog will cover travel expenses to in-person events.

See Also: Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH) Doctoral Internship Programme

Application and Selection Process

To apply, candidates must submit the following:

• Completed application form
• CV and short biography
• Two letters of support (including one from the candidate’s organization or company)

Completed applications should be sent to Jill Berger (jberger@leapfrog-group.org) by November 15, 2022

For more information, visit Bruce Bradley Fellowship

Application Deadline: 15th November, 2022