LMU Management Students Help Local Hospital

Management students from Loyola Marymount University have helped to bring an important grant to a local hospital. The downtown hospital was looking for a way to increase the number of health professionals coming from Boyle Heights and South Los Angeles.

The students in Professor Charles Vance’s management consulting class were tasked with producing a portion of what has become the California Hospital Medical Center’s grant proposal. The joint effort resulted in an award of $150,000, which the hospital is now using to implement the program.

The students’ portion of the grant application was to create a model of what the hospital’s education program would look like. The plan that the team developed will offer weekend classes, lectures and job shadowing opportunities. Once up and running it will recruit high school and undergraduate students who are interested in a career in healthcare, particularly primary care such family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics.

A major goal of the program is for the participants to eventually return to the hospital to work.  The LMU students learned a lot about the challenges the hospital industry faces in recruiting healthcare workers from their own neighborhood.

Charles Vance is a management professor at LMU with expertise in human resource management, training and development. Vance was a Fulbright Lecturer and is still active in the design and conduct of employee training, management development, executive education and other human resource consulting services with corporations and non-profit organizations in North and South America, Europe and Asia. He is a member of the Academy of Management and the Society for Human Resource Management and is the editor of the European Journal of International Management.

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