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$1m in workforce development grants to help hospital workers

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Two workforce development grants are helping staffers at a Boston hospital get training and credentials to advance their careers.

Through a new program supported by a $500,000 grant from the Boston Foundation, workers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center can receive free career counseling, college placement testing, and pre-college and college-level science courses at their workplace. Another $500,000 grant, from the state Workforce Competitiveness Trust Fund, is funding classes for a new Med Lab Technician program created in conjunction with Children’s Hospital Boston, New England Baptist Hospital, and Bunker Hill Community College.

About 200 Beth Israel Deaconess employees have enrolled in existing “pipeline” programs designed to help workers qualify as nurses, surgical technologists, or research
administrators.

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