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Healthcare Project Management Training

Leading projects in a healthcare setting is complicated. Healthcare projects often cross departments that are naturally siloed in most healthcare organizations. This means that leaders must plan carefully and enlist colleagues to work on their projects.

Projects drive change in healthcare and successful change requires effective project management. Whether you’re introducing improvements, redesigning processes, or launching new initiatives, project management skills are essential. From patient care and facility operations to IT systems and administrative processes, healthcare professionals juggle tight schedules, limited budgets, scarce resources, and complex tasks every day – all while navigating bureaucracy and managing stakeholders with different priorities and agendas. This curriculum teaches practical tools that bring clarity and control to both special initiatives and daily work, helping you achieve better outcomes regardless of your role.

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Transform your healthcare practice through project management. 

Effective project management can help control costs, reduce risk, and improve outcomes. Learn project management concepts, methodologies, and techniques required to lead healthcare projects with confidence and earn PMI credits along the way.

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Project Management Foundations for Healthcare
Success in healthcare initiatives demands more than just good intentions—it requires effective tools and methods. This course teaches essential skills to deliver results on time, within budget, and according to specifications. Learn how to set clear direction, break down complex work into manageable pieces, anticipate and manage risks, engage stakeholders, and maintain control even when faced with constraints and changes. This practical toolkit brings structure and clarity to any healthcare initiative, whether large or small.

Beyond Foundations: Making Projects Work in an Uncertain World.
Most healthcare initiatives start with clear objectives—like improving patient care or reducing wait times—but the path to achieving them isn’t always straightforward. This course teaches how to navigate this uncertainty. When implementation paths are clear, participants learn to define and manage requirements efficiently. When solutions need to emerge gradually, they master flexible approaches that help teams explore options and adapt as they learn. Through requirements gathering techniques, stakeholder analysis, process mapping, and iterative planning methods, participants gain essential skills for leading any type of change in healthcare settings. Whatever methodology is practiced, the goal remains the same: build the right thing, the first time!

Curriculum
This curriculum consists of two self-contained courses that can be taken independently. While each course delivers complete value on its own, taking both courses starting with Foundations creates a synergy that reveals the bigger picture and builds deeper connections between all aspects of project management.

Course Format
Learn by doing! Participants work in small groups on an accessible healthcare project that anyone can understand, regardless of their role. Teams apply each new tool and concept directly to their case study project, building up to presenting and negotiating their project plans with “senior management.” This hands-on approach ensures participants gain practical experience they can apply immediately to their work.

PMI® Credits
Our partner training company, Total Systems Education Ltd, is a Premier Approved Training Partner (ATP) of the Project Management Institute (PMI®). All their courses are approved by PMI® and award Contact Hours (classroom hours) or PDUs (Professional Development Units) toward acquiring or maintaining any PMI® Certification.

Upon completion of the Foundations course, participants will receive a certificate of completion and 24 PDUs/Contact Hours. An additional 24 PDUs/Contact Hours will be awarded upon completion of the Beyond Foundations course. These credits never “expire” and can be applied at any time in the future toward applying for or maintaining a PMI® certification.

Foundations for Healthcare Course

  • Design clear project roadmaps that keep everyone aligned and focused
  • Build realistic schedules that account for your team’s existing responsibilities
  • Identify and manage risks before they become problems
  • Lead teams effectively across departments and specialties
  • Build trust through effective communication and negotiation
  • Navigate conflicts and find win-win solutions
  • Track progress and adapt plans when circumstances change
  • Engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels
  • Apply project management tools to improve daily work efficiency

Beyond Foundations: Making Projects Work in an Uncertain World.

  • Recognize when to use detailed (predictive) plans vs. flexible (iterative) approaches to get better results
  • Uncover what stakeholders actually need (which may not be what they ask for!)
  • Transform strategic objectives into actionable requirements
  • Keep projects moving forward when solutions aren’t clear at the start
  • Keep delivering value even as priorities shift
  • Use process insights to validate and improve solutions 

Weekly sessions are online from 9:30 – 11:30 AM on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Project Management Foundations
April 2 – May 8, 2025

Beyond Foundations
October 15 – November 20, 2025

Please note: the class meets twice a week for 2 hours per session, over 6 weeks.

$1,800 per person, for each course. 
Bundle pricing is available. $2,675 per person for both courses. 
Group discounts are available for 3+ attendees. 

Program fee includes course materials and a certificate of completion.

A digital Certificate of Completion will be awarded to participants upon successful completion of the program. Successful completion of the program will be based on attendance of virtual sessions.

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Sacha Adele Field (Soja), PMP, CPP, CSSGB, LEED Green Assoc.

Sacha has developed her skills as a project leader, mentor, and negotiations concierge with over 30 years of experience in cross-functional project management. She worked with change management and agile methodologies before those terms were coined and, whatever you do, don’t tell her that “we have always done it that way.”

Sacha started her career at Morgan Stanley in NYC, relocated to Los Angeles where she ran projects in both tv and film production (Agile anyone?). She then went on to manage themed entertainment engineering and fabrication projects (think exploding barrels and Tinkerbell) where she honed her skills in international negotiations and leading cross-functional teams. As Director of Project Management at the California Science Center, Sacha successfully negotiated everything from exhibit design and fabrication to construction and building air rights among the Science Center, Foundation, and State of California representatives. No small task. In 2010 Sacha’s passion for teaching and work as a practitioner collided. She met the Total Systems Education, Ltd. (TSE) team during this time, and also became the Lead Instructor for PMI Metrolina’s PMP prep course. Sacha was hand-picked to join the launch team at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC.  in the role
of Director of Operations for the Museum. After opening the museum in a mere 18 months, Sacha accepted a role as Director of Property Management at the Catalina Island Conservancy, overseeing 42,000 acres of protected and privately owned land. Whew, what an adventure!

In 2022, Sacha reignited her passion for helping women learn how to negotiate transitions in their lives. In 2023, she eagerly joined the team at TSE as Director of Innovation. Sacha’s goal is to combine her own unique skillset with TSE’s extensive project management expertise to positively impact as many lives as possible.


Stephen A. Campitelli, PH. D, PMP®, PMI-ACP®, CSM

Stephen Campitelli has been a management, systems and audit professional for over twenty years.  His early career began in programming (within IBM mainframe environments), and then progressed through Systems Analysis and Design, and Project Management of on-line, data base and distributed data-base applications.  He has also managed projects to research and advise corporate management on the application of artificial intelligence, databases and software ergonomics within the banking environment.  While working at one of the largest banks in the United States, Stephen also ran a technology support team within the Auditing Division.  He was responsible for designing and implementing data analysis and reporting systems for the corporation.  This outstanding member of the Total Systems team brings personality, strong managerial and audit backgrounds, and detailed software technical skills including the use of Relational Database and Object-Oriented Technologies.  

Stephen has developed and taught a number of courses, for both technical and business audiences.  Course topics include Project Management, Business Analysis, PMI-PMP®/CAPM® Exam Prep, The Development Life Cycle, Systems and Structured Testing for the Technical Staff (Dynamic Testing) and Non-Technical Users, Nontechnical Business Analysis, Determining Business Requirements and Creating Functional Specifications, Data Modeling and Design, and Testing Techniques.  Stephen is also known for being the lead developer of our critically acclaimed workshop with the simple name, “Communicate or Die!”  Most recently, Stephen was the lead developer of our newest Project Management for Healthcare Certificate.  

Having begun his career in the mainframe world, Stephen remains on the leading edge of business technology in Project Management, Agile and Object-Oriented based applications.  He is also a frequent speaker at testing conferences and presents training courses covering this critical issue.  

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