Graduate Healthcare Management Consulting Intern

Graduate Healthcare Management Consulting Intern Strategy, Operations & Growth

Altheda Medical Center is seeking a highly motivated graduate student to join as a Graduate Healthcare Management Consulting Intern. This internship is designed for current MBA, MHA, MPH, MPA, MS, MSBA, healthcare administration, public health, data analytics, operations, technology, or other masters-level students with a deep interest in healthcare, business strategy, operations, growth, and innovation.

This is a project-based internship for a graduate student who wants to work on real business and operational problems inside a growing outpatient healthcare organization. The intern will support Altheda leadership with structured research, problem-solving, project execution, operational improvement, growth initiatives, and practical deliverables.

This is an opportunity for a graduate student who wants meaningful exposure to the business side of healthcare and wants to help improve how a healthcare organization grows, operates, communicates, and executes.

About Altheda Medical Center

Altheda Medical Center is a growing outpatient medical center focused on building a more accessible, efficient, and forward-thinking model of healthcare delivery. Altheda operates at the intersection of patient care, business operations, technology, patient experience, and healthcare innovation.

Altheda is seeking a graduate-level intern who can bring maturity, analytical thinking, structured problem-solving, and execution support to high-priority business and operational initiatives.

About The Internship

The Graduate Healthcare Management Consulting Intern will work directly with Altheda leadership on practical projects that support strategy, operations, patient experience, growth, technology, and organizational execution.

This internship is designed for a current graduate student who can take broad business or operational problems and help turn them into organized, usable work products. The intern will be expected to conduct research, define problems, organize findings, build project materials, create recommendations, and support implementation.

This is not a passive internship. The ideal candidate is someone who can think like a consultant, communicate like a professional, and execute like an operator.

Expected hours: Approximately 810 hours per week

Internship duration: Quarterly project cycle

Hiring: Rolling and highly competitive

Interns are accepted into an initial quarterly project period. Interns who are interested in continuing into the next quarter may be considered for renewal based on performance, project needs, professionalism, reliability, and leadership approval. Continuation into a future quarter is not automatic.

Example Project Missions

Interns may be assigned to broad, high-impact project missions such as:

Build a Better Patient Experience

Launch a Growth Sprint

Redesign a Workflow

Create a Market Intelligence Brief

Build an AI and Digital Productivity Use Case

Improve Training and Internal Communication

Internship Focus Areas

Applicants should identify which one of the following five internship focus areas best fits their strengths and interests:

Business Strategy & Growth Intern Best suited for graduate students interested in business strategy, growth initiatives, market research, healthcare entrepreneurship, service-line development, business cases, strategic planning, and management consulting.

Operations & Process Innovation Intern Best suited for graduate students interested in operations, process improvement, workflow redesign, healthcare administration, implementation planning, project management, operational efficiency, and execution systems.

Healthcare Systems & Patient Experience Intern Best suited for graduate students interested in healthcare administration, public health, medicine, patient experience, care delivery models, service design, access improvement, patient education, and outpatient healthcare operations.

Technology, AI & Digital Productivity Intern Best suited for graduate students interested in data analytics, information systems, AI, digital health, productivity tools, dashboards, workflow automation, technology adoption, and organizational knowledge systems.

Communications & Market Development Intern Best suited for graduate students interested in marketing, communications, public policy, healthcare outreach, community partnerships, patient-facing content, internal messaging, and market development.

Key Responsibilities

The Graduate Healthcare Management Consulting Intern will be expected to:

Support assigned business, operational, growth, and innovation projects.

Conduct research using approved sources and project-specific information.

Help define problems, organize findings, and develop practical recommendations.

Create project deliverables such as memos, trackers, checklists, slides, workflow maps, patient-facing materials, training .