Some of Boston’s top hospitals, including Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s, are attracting national attention for their workforce development and mid-level employee training programs, according to a Boston Globe report.
An unexpected shortage in medical workers left many hospitals concerned about finding workers to fill midlevel positions that require higher education or certification. A 2007 grant of $1.5 million from the non-profit Boston Foundation gave Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Medical Center and Partners HealthCare approximately $500,000 each to increase training efforts for low-skilled, low-income workers.
As a result, more than 1,200 employees received career counseling and enrollment in certification programs and college-level courses. Boston Foundation agreed to provide money for the hospitals to build training programs over a three-year period, as long as each hospital keeps the programs alive for an additional three years.
Other health systems and hospitals, such as Cleveland Clinic, are now looking at the model and hoping to adopt something similar.
Read the Boston Globe report on Boston hospital training programs.
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