First-Year
Health Administration
Case Competition
The Ohio State University First-Year Health Administration Case Competition provides first-year graduate students from health administration programs across the country an opportunity to put what they have learned into practice with a real-life case. It is designed to be a superb supplementary exercise to the graduate school experience, especially for first year students, who often do not have the chance to participate in case competitions.
Our case competition is capped at 24 teams.
This is the only health administration case competition in the country that is organized, coordinated, and executed solely by students. The Association for Future Healthcare Executives (AFHE) is the student group that is responsible for the planning and execution of the event. The Ohio State University is very proud of the effort made by its MHA students to put on this annual event, and of how the case competition has grown every year to include more top-tier programs and schools. This year's case competition will allow teams an opportunity to present their recommendations before a national team of judges who are all working professionals in fields related to health administration.
Thanks to generous OSU MHA alumni contributions, we have increased our prize amounts, and we are now awarding 1st, 2nd, 3rd, AND 4th place!
1st place: $6,000
2nd place: $4,500
3rd place: $3,000
4th place: $1,500
Questions?
Email us at MHA-CaseComp@osu.edu
13th Annual
Case Comp Details
April 4-5, 2024
The Blackwell Inn &
Pfahl Conference Center
Located on OSU's campus. Teams will receive a link to book in our hotel room block upon registering.
Rooms are limited.
Registration opens 1/8/24
Registration closes 2/16/24 at 11:59pm
Case Comp is limited to 24 teams.
Registration is now OPEN!
Email MHA-CaseComp@osu.edu for the link.
Case Writing Partner
The case will released on March 1st at 5pm, and teams will have 3 weeks to complete the case (due 3/22 at 11:59pm). All teams who submit a case will travel to OSU to present. Teams will submit a slide deck as their final deliverable. Once submitted, teams may not make changes to their slide deck. Teams will be assigned a team letter. Teams may name themselves in their slide deck, but names must not be identifiable to team members or related to school names.
Tentative Schedule
April 4, 2024 (The Blackwell Inn)
Early afternoon....................................................Teams arrive in Columbus & Check in @ The Blackwell
5:00PM.......................................................................................................................................Team Registration & Team Photos
5:30PM...................................................................................................................................Networking Happy Hour (Cash Bar)
6:30PM.................................................................................................Dinner & Leadership Development Symposium
A unique aspect of this case competition experience include the keynote speaker address from the Case Writing Partner and dinner at the annual Leadership Development Symposium (LDS), an event that takes place the evening before the case competition itself. This networking opportunity allows student teams to interact with one another, as well as students, faculty and MHA alumni from The Ohio State University. Preliminary Round presentation times will be drawn at the end of LDS.
April 5, 2024 (Multiple Locations)
7:00AM.................................................................................................................................Breakfast provided (location TBD)
8AM - 11:30AM.................................................................................................................Preliminary Round (location TBD)
12:00PM.........................................................................................................................................Lunch provided (location TBD)
1:00PM..................................................................................................................................Final Round, Top 6 (The Blackwell)
5:30PM...............................................................................................................................Awards Ceremony (The Blackwell)
6:00PM.................................................................................................................................Dessert Reception (The Blackwell)
8:30PM.......................................................................................Post-Comp Happy Hour (Location TBD, optional)
Meet The Leadership Team
Kyle Hall
Finance Director
MHA '24
Fellowship: UNC Health Rex
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Joy Mason
Chair, Case Competition
MHA '24
Fellowship: Cleveland Clinic
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Tate Sheppard
LDS Director
MHA '24
Fellowship: UK Healthcare
Case Comp Leadership Team
Aside from Advisors, every member is a 1st or 2nd year MHA student
Case Writing Committee
Chair: Lydia Kotowski
Dallas Ward & Erin Kane
Participants Committee
Chair: Lily Baker
Sydney Gray & Cortney Martin
Judges & Gift Committee
Chair: Shruti Asodaria
Evan Highland & Kaitlyn Mooney
Communications Officer
Jordan Johnsamson
Operations & Volunteers Committee
Chair: Alexis Reynolds
Rohit Lingamneni, Sebastian Imitola, & Gina Nguyen
Advisors
Finance Support
Julie Robbins, PhD, MHA
Kelly Scheiderer, MHA
Aram Dobalian, PhD, JD, MPH
Emma Klemanski
A Special Thanks to Our Sponsors
The Ohio State University
Wexner Medical Center
Association for Future
Healthcare Executives
at The Ohio State University
The Ohio State University
College of Public Health
Past Winners
2023
1st Place: Xavier University
2nd Place: University of Alabama at Birmingham
3rd Place: Baylor University
2021
1st Place: University of Alabama at Birmingham
2nd Place: The Ohio State University
3rd Place: University of Michigan
2019
1st Place: The Ohio State University
2nd Place: St. Louis University
3rd Place: Baylor University
2022
1st Place: University of Minnesota
2nd Place: University of Alabama at Birmingham
3rd Place: University of Kentucky
2020
1st Place: University of Alabama at Birmingham
2nd Place: The Ohio State University
3rd Place: University of Michigan
2018
1st Place: University of Michigan
2nd Place: The Ohio State University
3rd Place: Rush University
