A new partnership is giving health care employees the opportunity to move up in the workplace – Working Nation
Medical assistants are learning to become LMRTs while on the job
As a working mom, attending career-building classes outside of work does not fit well into Kandyce Ashlock’s life.
Based in Las Vegas, Ashlock works at CareNow Urgent Care, an integrated line of business for HCA Healthcare. A partnership between her employer and The College of Health Care Professions (CHCP) in Texas is affording the medical assistant the opportunity to take a step up in her career by training online—and while at work—to become a limited medical radiography technologist (LMRT).
“We are taking on that burden of paying for their tuition to help them realize those goals and for them to move on to future paths,” explains Jami Rimer, market manager for CareNow Urgent Care. “This program was designed to really keep our frontline workers working. It offers them the flexibility to be able to do that didactic training online. They don’t have to attend a brick and mortar [school].”
Ashlock is part of the program’s first cohort with students in both Las Vegas and Houston. “Most of us are moms, so it definitely appealed to all of us. We actually all talked about it. We were like, ‘This is actually really flexible with our schedules.’ Being a mom working, being a wife, everything like that.”