Capstone Projects
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The Resident divided her residency between the Administration Department and Bronx Health REACH, a CDC funded initiative to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities in the Southwest Bronx. In Administration, the Resident was responsible for …
Institute for Urban Family Health
The Resident was involved in a number of projects originating from the office of the Chief Operating Officer. The Resident played a key role in the preparation and analysis of the annual budgets for various operations departments including Radiology, …
Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens
The Resident was involved in numerous projects within Planning and Business Initiatives (PBI), which functions as an internal consulting unit to the executive leadership at the School of Medicine (SoM). Supported by the department, the Resident was …
New York University School of Medicine, Planning and Business Initiatives
Planned Parenthood of New York City (PPNYC) tasked the Capstone team with forecasting the impact to the organization when emergency contraception (EC), now available only by prescription, becomes an over-the-counter (OTC) drug. The specific objective of …
Planned Parenthood of NYC
The residency consisted of two six-week rotations at each of the four system hospitals. At each site, the Resident was introduced to a new area of hospital administration under the mentorship of executive and/or senior management. Each site offered a …
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Health System
"The World Bank Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PRMPS) group has done considerable work on public sector decentralization and has recently become interested in exploring the historical, political, and institutional context in which …
The World Bank
International Education and Resource Network (iEARN) is a nonprofit organization made up of over 20,000 schools in more than 115 countries. iEARN empowers teachers and students to collaborate virtually using the Internet and other new communication …
International Education and Resource Network
Housing Stability Plus (HSP) is a rental assistance program designed to facilitate the process of moving homeless clients out of shelter and into permanent housing. Launched in December 2004, the program includes several innovative features. Most notably, …
New York City Department of Homeless Services
Save the Children USA is an international NGO dedicated to increasing the quality of life for children around the world. Save the Children USA requested a Capstone team to assist in developing performance measurement indicators, both programmatic and …
Save the Children USA
"The Capstone team worked with World Bank Institute (WBI) staff to develop capacity building tools for strengthening the Guatemalan Municipal Planning Offices (OMP) and enhancing the skills of OMP officials. During the decentralization process OMPs were …
The World Bank Institute
Chronically ill patients in the final six months of life spend on average more days in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at New York University Hospitals Center (NYUHC) than nearly every highly ranked academic medical center within the United States. The …
New York University Hospitals Center
The residents responsibilities focused on the analysis of various factors affecting ACN practices ranging from patient volume variance to provider …
New York Presbyterian
Long Island College Hospital (LICH) is a 516-bed teaching hospital located just over the Brooklyn Bridge in the neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill. The senior management at LICH charged the Capstone team with evaluating the operations of …
Long Island College Hospital
Founded in 1915, Helen Keller International (HKI) provides eye health and nutrition programs in 22 countries to the worlds most vulnerable and disadvantaged populations. The Capstone team worked with HKI to analyze its financial processes and determine …
Helen Keller International
The United Nations Office for Internal Oversight (UN-OIOS) assists the Secretary-General in internal oversight activities including audits, monitoring, inspections, evaluations, consulting, and investigation activities. The UN-OIOS mandate for the …
United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services
The presence of lice is a public nuisance, the impact of which extends beyond the scalp. Not only can treating lice be costly with treatments ranging from $10 to $100, but also students may miss multiple days of school as a result of strict lice policies, …
The Primary Care Development Corporation (PCDC), a health care consulting firm, was created in 1993 with the mission to improve access to primary and preventive healthcare for low-income and medically underserved populations through partnerships with many …
Primary Care Development Corporation
The Inter-American Development Banks (IADB) Building Opportunity for the Majority initiative, launched in June 2006, identified that inadequate access to basic infrastructure services (water, sanitation, electricity, urban transport and rural roads) …
Inter-American Development Bank
While Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) Hospice Care provides an extensive array of bereavement resources to loved ones of hospice patients, the organization currently offers only limited grief and loss services to the non-hospice community. As …
Visiting Nurse Service of New York
The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty is an organization representing and coordinating the efforts of Jewish Community Councils citywide. It advocates for the needs of the poor and near-poor through provision of social services and legislative …
Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty
Empirical research is a fundamental pillar upon which public policy is built. It is also a means for the evaluation of current policy and, if appropriately applied, the basis for change. This residency gave the student an opportunity to be part of that …
Center for Vision Care Policy
Asphalt Green is a sports and fitness facility located in Manhattans Upper East Side, known best as New York Citys premiere aquatics facility. Catering to a diverse group of New Yorkers, Asphalt Green serves fee-based clientele through youth and masters …
Asphalt Green
At the Childrens Hospital of New York- Presbyterian (CHONY), the resident had the opportunity to work on various projects that were related to both the financial and operational aspects of the organization. The resident was involved in the Service …
Childrens Hospital of New York- Presbyterian
Working directly with the Vice President of Operations, the resident was able to develop and tailor a program that would suit her needs and interests. Subsequently, the resident worked on projects throughout the hospital that exposed her to all aspects of …
CMC St. Vincent's Medical Center