McKnight's November 2, 2023
Another creative campaign to bring new workers into the long-term care sector is succeeding beyond expectations, officials in Arizona announced Wednesday.
The AHCA WORKS program, launched by the Arizona Health Care Association in 2022, is well ahead of its two-year goal of recruiting and training 1,500 healthcare workers in the state.
AHCA WORKS has partnered with 211 employers across Arizona to enroll more than 1,400 students so far. The program is on pace to enroll 1,650 by its end, according to Jeff Barrett, the director of workforce development at the Arizona Health Care Association.
“We still have funds available so we are incrementally increasing the amount of enrollees until the funding is out,” he told McKnight’s Long-Term Care News...
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