BVU, UnityPoint Health Partner to Expand Education Benefits to More Than 33,000 Healthcare Workers
Through BVU Strategic Partnerships, businesses, like UnityPoint Health, are able to offer educational benefits to their employees. These mutually beneficial partnerships help strengthen organizations and their communities.
Buena Vista University and UnityPoint Health are teaming up to extend educational benefits to more than 33,000 UnityPoint Health team members. UnityPoint Health team members throughout the system’s three-state footprint can now access grants and tuition discounts from Buena Vista University to continue their education. Spouse/domestic partners and dependents of full-time team members are also eligible.
“Our team members do so much for our patients and our communities, every day. They are truly extraordinary,” said Rumame Samuels Bryant, executive director of total rewards at UnityPoint Health. “We’re grateful to add this exciting addition to our current tuition-assistance program. We hope this helps even more team members take the next step in their educational journey.”
“BVU’s mission in this initiative mirrors the goals and objectives of UnityPoint Health in that both organizations are working together, doing all they can to strengthen our students, their families, and, ultimately, the communities they serve.”
Katie Smith, BVU Director of Strategic Partnerships
BVU Strategic Partnerships aim to strengthen organizations by making grant funding available to the employees of partner organizations who take BVU classes. Grants are available for those who take classes at BVU’s Storm Lake campus, while discounts per credit hour in the form of BVU grant are offered to students enrolled in BVU’s convenient online/hybrid undergraduate programs or the Organizational Leadership graduate program.
Grants are available to spouses/domestic partners and dependents (age 26 and below) of UnityPoint Health full-time team members.
“We’re extremely excited to be working with UnityPoint Health as a new Strategic Partner with BVU,” says Katie Smith, BVU Director of Strategic Partnerships. “BVU’s mission in this initiative mirrors the goals and objectives of UnityPoint Health in that both organizations are working together, doing all they can to strengthen our students, their families, and, ultimately, the communities they serve.”
UnityPoint Health is an integrated health system, providing care to both metropolitan and rural communities across Iowa, western Illinois and southern Wisconsin. Headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa, UnityPoint Health has relationships with more than 400 physician clinics, 20 regional and 19 community network hospitals, seven community mental health centers, four accredited colleges and home care services throughout its nine regions.
For more information about BVU’s Strategic Partnerships and partner opportunities, please visit our website at bvu.edu/strategic-partnerships or contact Katie Smith at SmithK@bvu.edu.