Case Competition: 2025 All-Star Team

The National Case Competition invites students from CAHME-accredited programs, such as Weber State’s Master of Health Administration program, to competitively apply what they’ve learned to real-life scenarios. 

Held in Birmingham, Alabama, graduate students from across the U.S. and Canada travel to showcase their practical healthcare skills. Weber State’s 2025 National Case Competition all-star team consisted of Colby Lee, Christina Frazier, Noah Bridge, and Rachel Ford. 

Ford had the opportunity to attend the national competition as a student observer, a brand-new role in 2025. 

“I got to participate in the class sessions we had leading up to the case competition, and accompany the team to Alabama to see behind the scenes and learn from our professors as they were prepping for the competition,” she said.

Preparation for the national competition is rigorous. Students are given one month to prepare a solution to a selected case study modeled after real problems that real healthcare organizations face. 

“The issue was to come up with a sustainability plan for a specific hospital in the Advent Health healthcare system,” Frazier said. “We’re given six hospitals to choose from to build our case around.”

The all-star team worked together to study the different elements for each of the six hospitals. 

“It was really important to find the root cause of the problems,” Lee said.    

During this process, the all-star team learned to challenge one another in pursuit of the best answer. The ability to work together toward the best solution became crucial when searching for answers for their selected case study. 

“It’s just like Professor Rand (Kerr) says, ‘It doesn’t matter who’s right. It matters what’s right,’” Bridge said. 

MHA executive in residence Steve Bateman and industry relations expert Rand Kerr advise the case competition students each year.

Watch Lee, Frazier, Bridge, and Ford talk about mentorship, their case study solution, and more: