Jennifer Hunt Selected as Member of Tri-Cities Business Journal's 40 Under Forty
Jennifer Hunt, MPH Program Advisor and Lecturer in the Department of Health Services Management and Policy in the East Tennessee State University College of Public Health, was selected as one of the honorees in the 2018 class of the Tri-Cities Business Journal's 40 under Forty.
The excerpt on her award states:
Hunt is a full-time faculty and program coordinator with the Department of Health Services Management and Policy in the College of Public Health (CPH) at East Tennessee State University. She has previously worked for the former Mountain States Health Alliance, now Ballad Health, at their flagship hospital, Johnson City Medical Center, in the Value Optimization Systems department where she conducted several quality improvements and Lean process improvement events in clinical process redesign. In addition, Hunt has a Certified Materials and Resource Professional designation from the American Hospital Association. She also received Green, Bronze, and Silver Lean certifications through Simpler Business Systems and the University of Iowa. She is an excellent teacher, having earned Best Teacher at the 2017 annual CPH faculty and staff awards. In terms of research, her latest study on Lean process improvement that centered on Congestive Heart Failure patient identification was published in the Journal of Nursing Care Quality.
All honoree nominations were accompanied by letters of recommendation from places of employment and service organizations. Nominees are 39 years old or younger as of October 19, 2018, live and work in East Tennessee or Southwest Virginia, are involved in their communities and show the potential to be a leader in the business community during the next decade.
Former College of Public Health Assistant Dean for Student Services Paula Masters was also selected.
In addition to being recognized at the ceremony, honorees are featured in the December edition of The Business Journal of Tri-Cities Tennessee/Virginia .