Crotonville, N.Y. - June 5, 2013 - GE Healthcare today announced it will renew its collaboration with The Health Management Academy (The Academy) and expand the currently existing fellowships to include a Nurse Executive track. The Academy GE Fellows Program, first launched in 2006, offers leadership development and mentoring to health-system administrative, financial and physician leaders that aspire to significant corporate level positions within their health system. The Nurse Executive fellowship highlights GE Healthcare's commitment to supporting healthcare providers' senior executives, including a focus on nursing leadership.

"We are thrilled to renew and expand our work with GE Healthcare through the Fellows Program," said Sherrie Jones, president of The Health Management Academy. "GE is both a key industry leader and a valuable partner in our efforts to enhance leadership development programs and services to the executives leading the nation's top health systems."

The Academy GE Fellows Program is a two-year program for health system executives to expand their leadership development skills. The Fellows Program includes annual meetings at GE's training and development center in Crotonville, NY, Actions Projects, Learning Networks and the opportunity to rotate through The Academy's Executive Forums.

The Academy's fellowship offerings will now expand into the nursing field with a Nurse Executive Fellows Program. With the full support and encouragement of The Academy Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) Forum and The Academy membership, The Academy welcomes the creation of the Nurse Executive Fellowship Program for high-potential nursing executives. With curriculum focused on care integration, coordination across the continuum, population health, patient-centered medical homes and team-based care, the program is well positioned to foster education and share best practices for those who aspire to become CNOs of leading health systems.

"As we enter our seventh year of collaboration with The Academy, we are proud to reflect on the mentoring and leadership the Fellows Program has fostered to date and we look forward to expanding the program into nursing," said Marcelo Mosci, president and CEO of GE Healthcare, US and Canada. "Nursing leadership is essential to driving efficient, high quality patient care across hospitals nationwide, and we are proud to work with The Academy to support these leaders as they work to meet today's most pressing challenges in healthcare."

The first class of Nurse Executive Fellows will be welcomed at The Academy CNO Forum meeting in Chicago this September.

"Traditional management solutions are no longer as effective as we meet the challenges of healthcare today and in the future," said Wilhelmina Manzano, Senior Vice President and CNO, New York-Presbyterian Hospital and The Academy GE Fellows Program CNO Advisory Committee Chair. "We need to develop innovative partnerships and programs that will focus on essential nurse leadership competencies at the health-system level. I am thrilled to be able to work with GE and The Academy. They are visionary, innovative, and committed. Something extraordinary happens when you bring together people who care and want to make a difference."

About The Health Management Academy:

The Academy is a knowledge-based company exclusively for the largest integrated health systems and prominent health and medical technology companies. The Academy has a material record of independent research and advisory services. The Academy was formed in 1998, during the same decade that many of the large health systems were created.

The Academy services include industry-leading benchmarking and best practices research comparing the performance of Leading Health Systems; expert networks housed in 14 executive forums and the Trustee Institute; a learning laboratory for interdisciplinary teams collaborating on advancing new care delivery models; policy development and analysis conducted by The Academy Advisors; and Fellowship programs for high potential administrative, financial, physician and nurse executives, located in The Academy GE Fellows Program. The Academy is an accredited CE provider. More information is available at www.hmacademy.com.

About GE Healthcare:

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services to meet the demand for increased access, enhanced quality and more affordable healthcare around the world. GE (NYSE: GE) works on things that matter - great people and technologies taking on tough challenges. From medical imaging, software & IT, patient monitoring and diagnostics to drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies and performance improvement solutions, GE Healthcare helps medical professionals deliver great healthcare to their patients.


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