BVU, Lakes Regional Healthcare Bond Through Strategic Partnership
Lakes Regional Healthcare seeks to support its employees through a Strategic Partnership with BVU, providing discounted tuition and other educational benefits.
Buena Vista University (BVU) and Lakes Regional Healthcare (LRH) have entered a Strategic Partnership that mutually benefits both organizations as they strive to strengthen the communities they serve.
This partnership allows for employees of LRH, as well as eligible family members of full-time employees, to receive grant funding to lower the overall cost of education while enrolled in classes at BVU’s Storm Lake campus. Partner grant funding also lowers the cost per credit hour for students enrolled in BVU’s convenient online/hybrid undergraduate programs or the organizational leadership graduate program.
BVU professors and staff are also available for training programs, workshops, and more should officials with LRH seek those services and expertise.
“We are excited to partner with Lakes Regional Healthcare and offer education benefits to their employees and their eligible family members.”
Laura Todd, BVU Director of Strategic Partnerships
“A Strategic Partnership through BVU represents another benefit we can add to our toolkit for employees as they look for opportunities for growth or professional development,” says LRH Vice President of Human and Foundation Resources Sonja Hamm. “We are always looking for ways to support our employees as well as invest in our community, and this partnership provided a win-win opportunity.”
Located in Spirit Lake, LRH is a community hospital with approximately 325 employees, of which more than 200 are physicians. Since its opening in 1959, LRH has grown to provide a variety of services including inpatient care, outpatient care, home care, telehealth, and more to patients in Dickinson County.
“We are excited to partner with Lakes Regional Healthcare and offer education benefits to their employees and their eligible family members,” says BVU Director of Strategic Partnerships Laura Todd. “As we join together as partners, we can better work to uplift and support our communities.”
For more information about BVU’s Strategic Partnerships and partner opportunities, please visit the BVU website at bvu.edu/strategic-partnerships or contact Strategic Partnerships at StrategicPartnerships@bvu.edu.