New Pathways Program Helps Northwest Health Team Pay Down Student Loans
5/31/2022
SPRINGDALE – Team members of Northwest Health are now eligible for new and enhanced benefits designed as pathways to help them eliminate existing student debt faster, pursue additional professional education and advance their careers. The goal in offering the Pathways benefits is to support and retain Northwest Health team members and attract a strong workforce, especially frontline nurses, technicians, therapists and other clinicians and caregivers, along with support personnel.
Benefits include a new student loan repayment program that enables team members with outstanding student debt to consolidate their loans, reduce interest rates and benefit from employer sponsored payments. For most clinical team members, Northwest Health will directly pay a portion of loan premiums as long as the individual remains current with payments, offsetting student loan balances up to $20,000 per team member.
A new reimbursement program has been established for licensure or certification renewals required for all job classifications and can be used for any license or certification testing or renewal not already offered for free by the hospital.
In addition, a long-standing tuition reimbursement program that provides team members up to $5,000 in tax-free reimbursement annually is being expanded and can now be used for continuing education related to any role within the hospital. Previously, individuals could only use the tuition reimbursement program toward studies in their current field of work.
“This is another exciting way we can care for our team and support them in their career goals,” says Chris York, market chief executive officer for Northwest Health. “Through these enhanced and expanded benefits, we hope our Pathways program will ease the burden of student debt as well as allow our team members to continue growing personally and professionally.”
To learn more about career opportunities at Northwest Health, visit NorthwestHealth.com/Career-Opportunities.
If you are interested in joining the Northwest Health team, a career fair will be held Monday, June 6 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux in Rogers.
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