November 10, 2022 – Leading healthcare organizations are partnering with Dignity Health Global Education (DHGE), a CommonSpirit Health company, to support the national workforce challenges by investing in their most important asset, their people. Providence, a not-for-profit health system serving the Western U.S., and Premier Inc., a healthcare improvement and technology company with an alliance of more than 4,400 U.S. health systems and 250,000 providers and other organizations, will partner with DHGE to bring its solutions to hundreds of thousands of healthcare professionals nationwide.
A 2022 NSI National Health Care Retention & RN Staffing Report found that more than one in four (25.9%) hospital and staff RNs have switched employers or exited the bedside in 2021, an increase of 6.4%. Approximately ⅓ of all new hires left within their first year.
DHGE’s learning solutions support healthcare organizations in retaining, upskilling, and reskilling their workforce. DHGE partners with leading academic institutions such as Duke CE, Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University, and the Pepperdine Graziadio Business School, as well as top industry experts such as CEOs, CNOs, and CFOs to develop degree and certificate programs specifically for healthcare professionals, alongside fully customized education solutions for healthcare groups. Most recently, DHGE launched the country’s largest and most comprehensive nursing residency program across 21 states with CommonSpirit Health to address national high attrition rates among first-year nurses.
DHGE was established in 2019 as a joint venture between CommonSpirit Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems with 150,000 employees, and Global University Systems, a worldwide education network with over 70,000 students. The investment by Providence and Premier will expand DHGE’s impact and help re-engineer how education gets delivered across the country.