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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.

A vacant surgical tech, sterile processing, or EKG seat can cost a rural hospital up to twice a staff wage in traveler pay, every week it's open. Here's the math, and why training beats recruiting.

RHTP, WIOA, Workforce Pell, and more are putting real money into rural hospital workforce pathways. The barrier isn't funding, it's building one plan that braids the programs together.