The Thread

Small rural hospitals may hire only a couple surgical techs a year—too little to sponsor an apprenticeship alone. A regional model can share sponsorship, instruction, and administration across hospitals.

A plain-language look at how "shifting the budget" works for rural hospital training: where the money already is, how braided funding fits in, and what has to be in place to make the shift.

Employers, providers, and funders all get counted in apprenticeship data. Intermediaries usually don't. Take the first national AFA and Education Northwest survey on intermediaries and help fix that.

When a hospital sends staff to a community college, there's no guarantee they return. An in-house apprenticeship changes who picks the candidate, who employs them, and who keeps them after certification.

From an industry panel on healthcare staffing: why rural hospitals should build talent pipelines starting in middle school, and how to turn that outreach into a fundable, trackable program.

Travel and agency staffing costs keep climbing for rural hospitals. See the numbers, then learn how Craft Education's apprenticeship model builds your own surgical tech and sterile processing talent instead.