Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (MLH) recently announced a partnership with the University of Memphis (UofM) to help their employees earn certifications or college degrees in an affordable and flexible manner.
The partnership will also help fill the number of high-demand health care positions within the region.
“We could not be more delighted with the partnership with the University of Memphis to help our associates realize their dreams and to help us attract and retain the very best,” said Carol Ross-Spang, chief human resources officer at MLH.
Dr. Richard L. Irwin, executive dean of UofM global and academic innovation, said the established programs will positively impact the community.
“More people will be appropriately trained, more people will be educated and it puts them individually and then collectively as a community in a much better standing,” he added. “We know that a better educated population leads to better economic standing to all parties involved.”
The new initiatives established under the partnership are part of MLH’s Associated Advancement Program (MAAP), which provides employees with career pathways and career advancement programs to help them reach their goals as well as meet the workforce need.
“We were starting to have internal conversations about how we could take our current career development programs and processes and make them even more robust,” said Ross-Spang.
