Funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The Rural Health Administrator Fellowship creates learning opportunities for second-year master's degree students in health administration who have training and experience in rural health care delivery systems. The program is designed as an experience for committed students who are qualified and represent the populations they will serve in rural America. It provides a meaningful introduction to health services administration in a rural setting. The program seeks to identify candidates who have an earnest interest in rural health care, preferably who are from a rural area or have other personal experience or ties to rural life.
Participation is solicited from accredited rural health administration graduate programs that are willing to make a commitment to the Rural Health Administrator Fellowship. Training programs that choose to participate will make a commitment to the fellowship program by designating a faculty member as the fellowship adviser, establishing a relationship with a health center or facility site and traveling to the site to evaluate its appropriateness. These faculty members will be paid a modest supporting stipend and travel allocation. They also will have opportunities for community and student interaction and augmented research. The fellowship program provides an excellent opportunity for training programs to develop sound and lasting relationships with rural health centers and facilities.
Fellowship applicants will be eligible for placement following a competitive national screening process that includes a review of the basic application goal statements and recommendations, as well as a commitment from the program adviser of the training program.
Upon acceptance, fellows will be placed in rural health centers or facilities. They will master a set of rural health administration competencies during this training.
Fellows will receive an orientation to facilitate the formation of their cohort and begin a networking process that will last throughout their careers.
David Berry, Dr.P.H.
Chairman
Department of Health Care Administration
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada
Brooks Miller
Executive Director
Northeast Missouri Health Council
Kirksville, Missouri
Rhonda Ketterling, M.D.
Johnson Clinic, PC
Rugby, North Dakota
John Rugge, M.D.
Executive Director
Hudson Headwaters Health Network
Warrensburg, New York
Michael Samuels, Dr.P.H.
Associate Professor
Department of Health Administration
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina
James Coleman
Executive Director
West Alabama Health Services
Eutaw, Alabama
Staff:
Donna M. Williams
Executive Vice President
Rosemary McKenzie
Associate Program Director
National Rural Health Association
Kansas City, Missouri
Funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation