{"id":11120,"date":"2025-02-25T12:46:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T17:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/?page_id=11120"},"modified":"2026-01-16T14:01:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:01:59","slug":"center-for-excellence-in-healthcare-management","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/center-for-excellence-in-healthcare-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Center for Excellence in Healthcare Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-9\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<h2>About the Center<\/h2>\n<p>The Center for Excellence in Healthcare Management advances Marshall University\u2019s strategic priority of fostering innovative business thinking and measurable economic impact within the University\u2019s Health Sciences Area of Distinction. The Center focuses on applying <strong>leadership, management, and organizational science<\/strong>\u00a0to the grand challenges facing health care organizations in the tri\u2011state region of West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Our work emphasizes how business principles\u2014strategy, finance, operations, organizational behavior, and leadership\u2014can strengthen the performance, resilience, and long\u2011term sustainability of health care organizations operating within challenging economic, demographic, and geographic environments.<\/p>\n<h2>Vision<\/h2>\n<p>To become a leading source of research-driven insights that strengthen the leadership capacity, strategic decision\u2011making, and operational excellence of health care organizations in West Virginia and the surrounding region by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Informing the development of effective <strong>health care management policies and administrative systems<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Enhancing the adoption and successful implementation of <strong>organizational innovations<\/strong>, including emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>Providing a deeper understanding of the <strong>economic, managerial, and workforce dynamics<\/strong>\u00a0that shape health care delivery in rural and underserved communities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Activities<\/h2>\n<p>The Center conducts research that is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interdisciplinary and Practice-Oriented<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bringing together scholars and practitioners from business disciplines (e.g., management, leadership, economics, accounting, finance, information systems), as well as health professions, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and public health. We integrate organizational theory with practical, field-level insights to generate a holistic understanding of how health care organizations function and how they can improve.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Focused on Leadership, Management, and Organizational Challenges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our work applies business and management scholarship to develop new knowledge and solutions related to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Strengthening and sustaining the health care workforce<\/strong>, including leadership development, burnout prevention, workplace culture, and organizational design.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Improving organizational performance in rural and resource\u2011constrained environments<\/strong>, including operational efficiency, strategic planning, financial sustainability, and systems redesign.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Addressing major service-delivery challenges<\/strong>\u2014such as obesity, addiction, and aging populations\u2014by examining how health care organizations can lead change, innovate service models, redesign care delivery processes, and manage cross-sector partnerships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-3\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<h3>Center for Excellence in Healthcare Management Contact Information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/files\/2024\/06\/Larson-Headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10499 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/files\/2024\/06\/Larson-Headshot-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/profile\/jeff-larson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeff Larson<\/a>, Director, Center for Excellence in Healthcare Management; MS in Healthcare Administration Program Coordinator; Assistant Professor<br \/>\nManagement and Health Care Administration<br \/>\nMarshall University<br \/>\nLewis College of Business<br \/>\nOne John Marshall Drive<br \/>\nHuntington, WV 25755<br \/>\nOffice: SBUS 234<br \/>\nPhone: 304-696-3676<br \/>\nLewis College of Business<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:larsonj@marshall.edu\">larsonj@marshall.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11120","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11120"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11722,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11120\/revisions\/11722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}