July 19, 2006 
Berlin, Vt – Helen Spring RN, MSN, Chief Nursing Officer at Central Vermont Medical Center, recently completed the Johnson & Johnson-Wharton Fellows Program in Management for Nurse Executives at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
For three weeks each year, 40 senior nurse executives in health care organizations from around the nation and world are competitively selected to study strategic, financial, managerial and leadership approaches to organizational development.
The fellows program, funded by Johnson & Johnson, was established in 1983 at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania. It is the world’s first effort to provide management and leadership education for senior nurse executives in a business school setting.
“The advantage of the Wharton experience for me,” said Helen, “is being able to bring back to our organization the things I learned about state of the art business thinking and strategy, to mesh with our high quality nursing care.”
In seminars, workshops, and computer simulations, fellows learn new ways of thinking and working to help them understand the process of change in and across health care organizations and how that change can be managed effectively.
“Working closely with CVMC leadership and our nursing team,” she continued, “I hope we will be able to implement new and innovative strategies to meet constant ongoing health care challenges, as cost effectively as possible, while still maintaining CVMC’s high quality standards.”
Helen Spring RN, MSN is only the second nursing executive from Vermont to be accepted into Johnson & Johnson-Wharton Fellows Program in Management for Nurse Executives at the Wharton School since it’s inception in 1983. She graduated on June 30, 2006
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