Richard J. Stull Student Essay Competition in Healthcare Management

Richard J. Stull Student Essay Competition in Healthcare Management

The Foundation of the American College of Healthcare Executives is pleased to sponsor the annual Richard J. Stull Student Essay Competition in Healthcare Management. The purpose of the competition is to stimulate and demonstrate the ability of future healthcare executives to identify and describe important issues and developments in their chosen profession.

Submit essay by December 5, 2022

Topics

ACHE invites eligible students to submit essays with a focus on healthcare management topics such as:

• strategic planning and policy 

• accountability of and/or relationships among board, medical staff and executive management 

• financial management 

• human resources management 

• systems management 

• plant and facility management 

• comprehensive systems of services • quality assessment and assurance 

• professional, public, community or interorganization relations 

• governmental relations or regulation 

• marketing 

• education 

• research 

• law and ethics 

Entries and Awards

Only one entry per program in ACHE’s Higher Education Network will be accepted. Program faculty must select and submit the student essay entered into the competition. Schools with both graduate and undergraduate degree programs may submit separate entries for each. 

Cash prizes will be awarded to the first-place, second-place and third-place essayists in both the graduate and undergraduate divisions. Each student who has his/her essay submitted to ACHE will receive a certificate and keepsake in recognition of being selected to represent his/her program.

The graduate and undergraduate students whose essays are judged the winning entries will each receive $3,000; their programs will receive $1,000. The second- and third-place graduate and undergraduate finalists will receive $2,000 and $1,000, respectively.  All six finalists will be invited to attend the Congress on Healthcare Leadership, March 20-23, 2023, in Chicago, as guests of ACHE, with transportation and accommodation expenses for two nights paid by ACHE. Awards will be presented at the Leon I. Gintzig Commemorative Lecture and Luncheon on Wednesday, March 22.

Publication

The two first-place entries will be published in future issues of the Journal of Healthcare Management. These two essays will become the permanent property of the Foundation of the American College of Healthcare Executives and may not be published elsewhere without written permission from the editor.

For complete rules and details, including eligibility requirements, visit ache.org/StullEssayComp.

Stull Essay Competition

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Stull Essay Competition

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Stull Essay Competition

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Stull Essay Competition

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Stull Essay Competition

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Stull Essay Competition

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Stull Essay Competition

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Stull Essay Competition

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Stull Essay Competition

ache.org/StullEssayComp

Stull Essay Competition

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