Northwest Healthcare’s Pathways Benefits Help Employees Pay Down Student Loans; Renew Licensures and Certifications
7/26/2022
Northwest Healthcare employees are now eligible for Pathways, new and enhanced benefits to help them eliminate student debt faster, pursue additional professional education, and advance their careers. Our organization is growing – we recently resumed in-person orientation and plan to have well over 100 employees join our organization before the end of July, including dozens of newly-graduated nurses.
Pathways is designed to support and retain employees and attract a strong workforce, especially frontline nurses, technicians, therapists and other clinicians and caregivers, along with support personnel.
These exciting benefits include a new student loan repayment program that allows employees with outstanding student debt to consolidate their loans, reduce interest rates, and benefit from employer sponsored payments. For most clinical employees, Northwest Healthcare will directly pay a portion of loan premiums as long as the employee remains current with payments, offsetting student loan balances up to $20,000 per employee.
In addition, a new employee reimbursement program has been established for licensure or certification renewals required for all job classifications. The reimbursement can be used for any license or certification testing or renewal not already offered free of charge by the hospital.
Finally, a long-standing tuition reimbursement program providing employees up to $5,000 in tax-free reimbursement annually is being expanded – it can now be used for continuing education related to any role within the hospital. Before Pathways, employees could only use the tuition reimbursement program toward studies in their current field of work.
“We appreciate our colleagues in all they do and want to support and celebrate them,” said Brian Sinotte, FACHE, market CEO of Northwest Healthcare. “We are confident that Pathways benefits will ease the burden of student debt and allow the members of our professional family to focus on achieving their goals and career success.”
To learn more about career opportunities at Northwest Healthcare, visit healthiertucson.com/career-opportunities.
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