2027 FELLOWSHIP
APPLICATION DEADLINE: September 10, 2026
Baptist Health is accepting applications for a Health Administration Fellowship position to begin in June 7, 2027. Diverse Candidates are encouraged to apply. The post-graduate salaried position is for one year. The position will work one half of the year at Baptist Health Louisville, a 490-bed tertiary care hospital in Louisville Kentucky, and the second half of the year out of the system office, also located in Louisville.
The Fellow will have opportunities for interaction with local and system leaders, and may be involved in local and system wide projects. S/he will work with local and system service line leaders, the Baptist Health Medical Group, local and system Community Benefit activities around health access and equity, and the system Performance Advisory Office. Primary mentors for the Fellows will be the President (Dr. Jon Velez) and the Chief Operating Officer (Gretchen Leiterman) at Baptist Health Louisville and the Chief Operating Officer (Patrick Falvey) and Medical Group President (Dr. Isaac Myers) for Baptist Health. Other mentors and preceptors will be assigned according to specific projects in which the Fellow may be engaged.
Required Application Materials:
1. Online Baptist Health application (contact Chera Cummings in Human Resources for instructions on completing: 502.897.8240)
2. Official Resume with undergraduate and graduate GPA listed, including volunteer and work experiences.
3. Four Letters of Recommendation: At least one Academic, one professional, and one personal.
4. Personal Statement – Please prepare a personal statement that addresses the following questions:
• What stimulated your interest in health care?
• Given that you are completing a master’s degree and are fully qualified for many positions in the healthcare industry, what do you hope to gain from the Baptist Health fellowship that you could not gain from other career opportunities?
• Briefly describe your career interests/goals.
• What is something about you that makes you unique or that you would otherwise like us to know about yourself?
Please note: Application packets received after September 10, 2026will not be considered. Your Baptist Health application status must be "complete" or "verified" by this date. Please refer to your school for the packet instructions and whom to submit documents to with BH Louisville.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
1. Work requires the knowledge of theories, principles, and concepts typically acquired through a Master’s degree in Health Administration or Business Administration with emphasis in healthcare.
2. Work requires the analytical skills to resolve problems that require the use of basic scientific, mathematical, or technical problems. Experience in presentation, financial, analytical, and documentation software is expected.
3. Work requires the ability to exchange information on factual matters, schedule appointments, greet visitors, explain System policies, and/or relay messages to appropriate personnel. This type of interaction requires courtesy and tact when dealing with patients, visitors, and/or medical center employees. More sensitive situations may be referred to others as appropriate.
4. This is a post-graduate program. A Master’s degree in Health Administration or Business Administration with emphasis in healthcare, or equivalent, is required.
5. No certification, registration, or licensure required.
Work Experience
Education
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
