Going beyond tuition assistance: How Banner Health is supporting nurses’ education

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Half a million nurses are projected to leave the workforce by the end of 2022, and faced with a nationwide shortage of healthcare workers in a global pandemic, employers must find ways to both retain and cultivate this talent.

To bring more nurses into the workforce, non-profit healthcare services company Banner Health plans to pay the full cost of tuition for their registered nurses to receive a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. The company is partnering with InStride, a company that designs workforce education programs, to launch the Banner Education Achievement program.

Deanna Cuadra
Senior Reporter

Deanna Cuadra is a senior reporter at Employee Benefit News. Her work covers healthcare, U.S. policy and reform, challenges faced by women and parents in the workplace and innovation in work culture … Read full bio


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