Kathy Schuler, Vice President of Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer of Winchester Hospital, Graduates from Wharton Program for Nurse Executives

Winchester, Mass. – Kathy Schuler, vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer of Winchester Hospital, recently graduated from the Johnson & Johnson - Wharton Fellows Program in Management for Nurse Executives, an intensive, three-week management education program held at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Schuler was one of 38 senior nurse executives selected to participate in the program, which provides participants with critical business and management skills that enable them to be effective leaders in the ever-changing health care industry. This year’s participants are from the U.S., Australia and Canada.
 
The Johnson & Johnson - Wharton Fellows Program has been enhancing the leadership capabilities of nurse executives for more than 25 years. The program recognizes the important and influential role nurse executives play in strategic planning within their own health care institutions and in shaping health care policy issues regionally, nationally and globally. Their input and influence have added significance today, given the challenges associated with health care reform in the U.S.
 
“Once again, the Johnson & Johnson - Wharton Fellows Program has participants from numerous countries, as well as from for-profit, not-for-profit, acute inpatient as well as outpatient, and the U.S. military,” said Gregory Shea, Ph.D., academic director of the Johnson & Johnson – Wharton Fellows Program. “This variety of backgrounds and yet surprisingly similar set of challenges promotes creative reflection and boundary breaking thinking in the face of the growing and daunting challenge of how to provide better health care at a lower cost.”
 
Wharton Executive Education competitively selects nurse executives to study strategic, financial, managerial and leadership approaches to organizational development. During the program’s Executive Forum, nurse executives collaborate with their health care institutions’ chief executive officers to analyze the role of nursing in hospital management and strategic planning.
 
“I’ve gained enhanced skills as an executive,” Schuler said, “both from the formal program and through networking with nurse leaders from different countries.”
 
About Winchester Hospital
Winchester Hospital is the first community hospital in Massachusetts to earn Magnet recognition, the American Nurses Association’s highest honor for nursing excellence. As the northwest suburban Boston area’s leading provider of comprehensive health care services, the 229-bed facility provides care in general, bariatric and vascular surgery, orthopedics, pediatrics, cardiology, pulmonary medicine, oncology, gastroenterology, rehabilitation, radiation oncology, pain management, obstetrics/gynecology and a Level IIB Special Care Nursery. Winchester Hospital has clinical affiliations with several nationally recognized hospitals in the region, including Children’s Hospital Boston, Tufts Medical Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. To learn more, visit www.winchesterhospital.org.

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