What is a Healthcare Leader? Healthcare leaders are the forward-thinking professionals who work to stay in tune with health care advances and in touch with the needs of consumers, caregivers, the corporate world, and the welfare of our nation.
Our Mission: We want to help students across the nation network and learn from each other as well as from today's professionals, provide resources for students to be prepared for the professional world or continuing education, and encourage student involvement in community activities and academic excellence.
Our Vision: We envision a national network of undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate students who are pursuing degrees in healthcare type majors that can someday say we made a difference for the greater good of our country.
Our Motto: “Let the practice of our growing knowledge be the cornerstone on our journey to help others.”
What it takes to be a Healthcare Leader
Communication skills
Strong written and oral communication skills
Ability to develop and present reports and proposals
Adaptability/organizational fit
Personal and career objectives that mesh with those of the organization
Ability to work well with others, including superiors, subordinates, and peers
Attitude and appearance that communicate confidence, maturity, and competence
Dependability, judgment, character
Maturity to make decisions and take responsibility for them
Honest and ethical business conduct
Willingness to make a commitment to the organization
General management skills
Leadership that inspires and motivates others
Ability to train, delegate, evaluate, coordinate, and negotiate
What Can We Expect to Face in the Near Future? Healthcare is changing more rapidly than almost any other field. The field is changing in terms of how and where care is delivered, who is providing those services, and how that care is financed. These changes are being driven primarily by the growth of managed care. A number of other current trends are expected to continue, including:
· Integration of healthcare delivery organizations to create accessible, appropriate, and comprehensive care pathways for all people
· Continual advances in medical technology
· Collaboration among provider organizations, physicians, businesses, insurers, and others to improve community health status
· Increased emphasis on disease prevention and wellness promotion
· An elderly population that will grow exponentially with the "Baby Boomer" generation
· Better-informed patients demanding high-quality care
· Pressure from business, government, insurers, and patients to control costs and demonstrate the value of the services delivered
· Efforts to implement continuous quality improvement initiatives similar to those found in other fields
How you can get involved: Currently, the founding members are in progress of structuring the first student chapter at The University of Alabama in Birmingham. We hope that you have the same passion as we do in bettering our future and the future of our children and decided to create a chapter at your own university. If so, please email one of us and we can direct you to the completion of this process and help unite the nations future healthcare leaders.
Founding Member’s Statement: We encourage a diverse background to form the school chapters of FHLA. Ideally each school within the University would have some sort of representation; included but certainly not limited to law students, psychology majors, nursing students, political science majors, and our future engineers. Everyone has an important role in how the future of our nation’s healthcare takes shape. We are the future and it is never too early to plan and take action. So stand with us and let our generation do the impossible. Let it be us that cure the incurable. We will be the ones that improve, not damage our only planet. Communication and education is key, and that key opens the box to OUR minds.