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Operational Excellence

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Mary Reich Cooper, MD, JD
Program Director

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Michael Anderson, MSIS, CSSMBB
Associate Program Director

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Alison Hong, MD
Assistant Program Director

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Curriculum

Courses

Advanced Practice Certificate (APC) in Operational Excellence

  • OPX 520: Change Management
  • OPX 530: Applied Leadership Strategies for Effective Change*
  • OPX 532: Project Management Essentials

Graduate Certificate

  • OPX 530: Applied Leadership Strategies for Effective Change*
  • HQS 500: Introduction to Healthcare Quality & Safety
  • OPX 520: Change Management
  • OPX 532: Project Management Essentials
  • OPX 525: Executing Lean Improvements

Master's Degree

  • OPX 530: Applied Leadership Strategies for Effective Change*
  • HQS 500: Introduction to Healthcare Quality & Safety
  • OPX 520: Change Management
  • OPX 532: Project Management Essentials
  • OPX 525: Executing Lean Improvements
  • HQS 512: Business Case for Quality
  • OPX 535: Strategic Execution
  • OPX 531: Evaluating Healthcare Organizations
  • Elective #1 (Program Director approval needed)
  • Elective #2 (Program Director approval needed)
  • OPX 650: Capstone

The Capstone is designed by the student and is tailored to their career trajectory.

There is a maximum number of credits that can be waived or substituted. Students must request applicable waivers at time of admission - they are not automatically applied. See Student Handbook for more details.

*Waived for members of the Pennsylvania Medical Society.

Additional Elective Options

 
  • HQS 504: High Reliability
  • HQS 508: Quality in Post Acute Care Settings
  • OPX 516: Teaching Operational Excellence
  • OPX 540: Baldrige
  • OPX 550: Fundamentals of Six Sigma DMAIC (additional fee)
  • OPX 551: Advanced Fundamentals of Six Sigma DMAIC (additional fee)

For course descriptions, please view the Jefferson College of Population Health Course Descriptions page.

Program Outcomes

The OpX program prepares leaders to be effective agents of change within their organizations by equipping them with the knowledge and skills to facilitate and lead system and process-level improvements.  Graduates will be able to:

Graduate Certificate
  • Apply the foundational concepts of quality and safety measurement, improvement, and analysis
  • Utilize project management tools and framework to design and implement improvement projects
  • Distinguish the various evaluation methods used to externally and internally assess a healthcare organization’s performance
  • Identify and evaluate appropriate healthcare situations to utilize operational excellence tools
Master’s Degree (above plus)
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of various performance improvement evaluation approaches as well as improvement interventions
  • Integrate quality, safety, and transformation/change management tools to promote quality, safety, and process efficiency
  • Design and implement operational excellence tools and strategies at a system level
  • Develop systematic approaches to drive broad-impacting improvements across a healthcare organization