Healthcare company-building profile
Nursing Innovation Lab and Nursing Innovation Fellowship
OSF HealthCare (OSF Innovation)
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Health system accelerator
- Organization
- OSF HealthCare (OSF Innovation)
- Organization type
- Hospital or health system
- Location
- Peoria, Illinois
- Company stage served
- Not publicly documented
- Cohort or participation model
- Not publicly documented
- Investment or funding offered
- Not publicly documented
- Published investment terms
- Not publicly documented
- Equity or fee model
- Not publicly documented
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Yes
- Application status
- Active
- Founded
- 2024
Public description
About the program
OSF HealthCare runs a dedicated Nursing Innovation Lab inside OSF Innovation that develops nurse-led solutions to improve care delivery and nursing workflow. Alongside the lab, OSF launched a Nursing Innovation Fellowship in 2024 for experienced bedside nurses, who continue working two clinical shifts a week while spending the rest of their time on innovation and education work. Fellows are selected through a competitive process requiring four to five years of experience, documented outcomes, a 1,000-word essay, a CNO recommendation and a panel interview, and each is paired with a mentor. The program deliberately builds peer coaches rather than concentrating innovation among executives, on the theory that peers are the most powerful influencers at the point of care. Lab projects include a partnership with the University of Illinois on detecting and mitigating early signs of nurse burnout and intent to leave.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
- Category: Health system accelerator
Publicly documented people and network
Program leadership and alumni
- Program leader
- Nikki Graham — Vice President of Nursing, Clinical Practice, Innovation and Education, OSF HealthCare
- Notable alumni named in public materials
- Inaugural 2024 fellowship cohort of five bedside nurses; multiple fellow-generated innovations advanced to prototype development; peer coaches on medical-surgical units improved patient experience metrics and decreased patient harms through coaching alone; University of Illinois partnership on detecting and mitigating nurse burnout and intent to leave
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