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Administrative Internship Information Session Friday, January 19th, 2024, at 11 a.m. MST (1 p.m. EST) - Register here

HOPCo Overview

Healthcare Outcomes Performance Company (HOPCo) is the leading provider of musculoskeletal value-based health outcomes, service line and practice management. This includes comprehensive management and optimization of specialties such as orthopedics, spine, hand, pain management, rehabilitation, and neurology.   

HOPCo’s integrated care and analytics platform has proven to increase the quality of patient care and program revenue while reliably reducing the total cost of care across the care continuum for practices, health systems and payors alike effectively bending the cost curve and reducing the total year over year spend for musculoskeletal 
services when most are seeing a 14% year over year increase.  

HOPCo’s affiliated payors, practices and health systems successfully participate in highly efficient value-based contracting (bundled payments, capitated population health programs, and other risk-based arrangements) utilizing HOPCo’s proprietary platforms, IT solutions, integrated analytics, and standardized care pathways. This helps our 
partners obtain real time, actionable insights into their systems, allowing them to comprehensively manage the entire business while improving outcomes for their treasured patients. As a result, HOPCo has become the only organization with proven and sustainable success in population health management of musculoskeletal specialty care. 

Our Mission: To continually define the standard of patient care through the commitment to excellence, 
innovation, and learning.
Our Values: The Patient, Evidence, Commit, Innovate, Grow 
A Culture of Service – Every Patient Every Time

• Accountability
• Excellence
• Integrity
• Originality
• Unity

HOPCo Administrative Internship

HOPCo offers a unique and comprehensive 10–12 week administrative internship program within one of the recognized national leaders in musculoskeletal value-based health outcomes, health system service line and physician practice management.

Interns will receive broad exposure to the breadth of HOPCo’s musculoskeletal integrated delivery system and increase their understanding of management in a dynamic healthcare setting through close participation in a wide variety of meaningful projects, interdisciplinary meetings, and other professional growth opportunities.

Interns will work closely with nationally recognized leaders and experts in clinical care delivery, medical economics, finance, operational management, business development, market intelligence and many more. The hands-on fellowship curriculum fosters enthusiastic engagement from each Intern given the breadth of HOPCo’s platform.

These experiences are gained in a variety of settings including the corporate offices, health systems, clinical settings, and other services within our healthcare and medical economics platforms.  This unique integration of experiences provides unrivaled exposure to the full spectrum of value-based care delivery programs. Throughout the Summer internship, interns will have the opportunity to contribute and refine their skills, abilities, and talents to major projects and initiatives that impact our business, that lives of patients and the future of healthcare.

PROCESS AND TIMELINE

• Application Open: November 13th, 2023
• Application Deadline: February 2nd, 2024
• First round interviews: Early February
• Second round interviews: Late February
• Final Selection: Early March
• The Internship is a 10–12-week program beginning in May and ending late July or August depending on student’s schedule.

Eligibility Requirements
• Seeking a Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) or equivalent degree
• Must be currently enrolled in school, preferably between the first and second year
• U.S. citizens or permanent residents, HOPCo is unable to sponsor work visas

Application Requirements
• Resume
• Statement of Purpose addressing the applicant’s career goals, professional interests, and objectives during the Internship (One-page single spaced)
• Unofficial Graduate Transcripts
• Two Letters of Recommendation: One must be an academic reference and one a professional reference
NOTE: When submitting application materials, please merge all documents into one PDF file in order of resume, statement of purpose, letter of recommendation. Upload this as one file within the application

Current and Past Projects

• Developed Joint Commission and DNV orthopedic and spine certification gap analysis tool
• Crafted an infographic and conducted an exhaustive system walkthrough for HOPCo digital
• Assisted with the development of a specialty hospital’s employee self-assessments and developed strategies to increase participation amongst employees
• Create and lead consumer sentiment survey for health system partner to determine brand position, market share, and opportunities for geographic expansion
• Partnered with Chief Transformation Officer in developing literature reviews and academic research papers on orthopedics and value-based care
• Executed service line transformation for orthopedics and musculoskeletal care across a 5-hospital health system including strategic and marketing initiatives
• Spearheaded roll-out of a musculoskeletal-specific patient engagement platform across partnering health systems and hospitals
• Designed clinic staffing model for 1500+ employees across 50+ clinics nationwide
• Produced ROI analysis of discharge lounge for eligible patients
• Lead annual KPI review for six-hospital health system
• Developed strategic competitive analysis for business development opportunity
• Conducted weekly MSK market intelligence report for HOPCo executives
• Coordinated patient education course based on clinical best practices for total joint replacement
• Utilizing business intelligence tools created OR and block utilization dashboard for hospital systems across the nation

Organization Objectives

• Provide a proven bridge from academia to practice
• Expose talented individuals to the philosophy, mission and values of HOPCo
• Provide the opportunity for executives of HOPCo to develop and exercise teaching and mentoring skills

Program Objective

• Cultivate a philosophy, code of ethics, and set of values in a company dedicated to excellence in patient care and healthcare administration
• Develop leadership skills
• Acquire marketable administrative and technical skills
• Demonstrate management potential in specific areas at various levels through diversified line and/or staff responsibilities that will contribute to the organization

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