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More than 550 Boston health care workers will have an opportunity to get the training and education they need to advance up the career ladder, thanks to an innovative new partnership of hospitals, Harvard Medical School, the City of Boston, the state, community colleges, neighborhood development and job training organizations.
BWH president Gary Gottlieb, MD, MBA, joined Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and other hospital leaders on May 28 to announce the Boston Health Care and Research Training Institute, which will be located at Harvard Medical School. It will provide skills training, workshops, English as a Second Language, GED, pre-college, college, and supervisory training for front-line employees in seven Boston hospitals, including BWH and Faulkner Hospital, and enable them to advance within their own workplaces and build a career in health care. The City of Boston and the Commonwealth Corporation have provided funding of $750,000 for the career ladder programs.
“Through the leadership of Mayor Menino and with financial support from both the City and the state, hospitals have come together to build something we desperately need, a workforce for the future. The Boston Health Care and Research Training Institute is an important step toward addressing the severe shortage of nurses and allied health workers who are so essential to our ability to provide outstanding health care to our patients,” said Gottlieb.
Participating employers represent 35 percent of health care jobs in Boston.