Build a stronger healthcare talent pipeline
with COPE Health Scholars.Create a structured experiential-learning partnership that develops future healthcare professionals while supporting workforce, patient experience, quality, and community priorities across your organization.
Build relationships with future healthcare professionals through academic and community connections.
Align screening, training, competency, and defined responsibilities with your environment.
Create clearer pathways toward relevant entry-level opportunities and long-term career growth.
Recruitment reach across colleges, universities, and community organizations helps partners build earlier connections with future healthcare talent.
Scholars report that the experience helps clarify career goals, reinforcing a partnership model centered on learning, growth, and informed next steps.
Partnership models can be shaped across inpatient, ambulatory, administrative, and other approved pathways based on organizational priorities.
Build a partnership that strengthens your organization and the Scholar experience.
The strongest model creates value on both sides. Healthcare organizations gain a structured way to develop future talent and support priority initiatives, while Scholars gain meaningful experience, mentorship, professional development, and clearer career direction.
Build a stronger talent pipeline
Recruit, prepare, and develop future healthcare professionals while creating clearer connections to relevant entry-level opportunities and priority pathways.
Support patient experience priorities
Align approved Scholar responsibilities with patient support, rounding, navigation, communication, mobility, and escalation workflows where appropriate.
Strengthen community connection
Create a visible local pathway between students, families, schools, communities, and your organization as a place to learn, contribute, and grow.
Turnkey operations
COPE Health Scholars manages the program end to end, including recruitment, screening, preparation, scheduling, tracking, ongoing Scholar support, communications, reporting, and continuous program refinement. Your team stays aligned on site-specific priorities, approvals, and requirements while we manage the operational heavy lifting.
Organizations build a sustainable pathway to future talent. Scholars build experience, confidence, professional readiness, and clearer direction for their healthcare careers.
Structured Scholar support can complement care-team priorities while protecting training, scope, and staff direction.
Connect Scholar learning with priorities your teams are already advancing.
Examples can include patient experience, quality and safety, navigation, workforce development, and community-focused initiatives. Activities are customized with partner leadership and aligned with approved Scholar training and responsibilities.
Patient experience support
Support approved workflows such as hourly rounding, call-light responsiveness, patient comfort, mobility, and navigation.
Quality and safety initiatives
Participate in selected audit, infection-prevention, safety, and process-improvement workflows designed with appropriate site leadership.
Priority talent pathways
Help prepared Scholars understand relevant entry-level opportunities and create stronger connections between experiential learning and future employment.
Top-of-scope team support
With clearly defined Scholar responsibilities, care teams can focus licensed expertise on work that requires clinical credentials while Scholars contribute within their approved role.
Choose one Scholar pathway, or build the right mix for your organization.
Health Scholars, Junior Health Scholars, and Care Navigator Scholars each bring a distinct kind of experiential learning and talent-development value. Organizations can begin with one program or explore multiple pathways across a site or system based on goals, capacity, care settings, and community needs.
One program. Multiple programs. One partnership strategy.
There is no one-size-fits-all model. We can work with your team to identify the combination that best supports your workforce priorities, Scholar experience, and long-term partnership goals.
Health Scholars
A hospital-based experiential learning pathway for aspiring healthcare professionals, combining structured patient and unit support with clinical and administrative exposure, mentorship, and professional development.
- Patient and unit support
- Clinical + administrative exposure
- Future talent pipeline
Junior Health Scholars
An early healthcare exposure pathway for students beginning to explore healthcare careers, with structured hospital-based learning, mentorship, professional readiness, and a stronger understanding of the care environment.
- Early hospital exposure
- Mentorship + readiness
- Community talent development
Care Navigator Scholars
A navigation- and systems-focused pathway that builds experience in patient communication, care coordination, population health, healthcare operations, and how people move through care.
- Patient navigation
- Care coordination + communication
- Systems + operations learning
We can help shape the right pathway for your organization.
Some partners begin with a single program and expand over time. Others may benefit from more than one Scholar pathway. The right model depends on the organization, setting, community, and priorities.
A partnership operating model built around your environment.
COPE Health Scholars works with appropriate stakeholders to align recruitment, screening, preparation, responsibilities, workflows, reporting, and ongoing support with your organization’s standards and priorities.
Align
Clarify workforce priorities, patient experience goals, target departments, community needs, stakeholders, and desired measures.
Design
Build the Scholar scope, workflows, screening criteria, preparation plan, stakeholder roles, and site-readiness requirements.
Recruit & prepare
Recruit locally, screen applicants, complete required clearances, deliver role-aligned preparation, and assess readiness before placement.
Operate & improve
Coordinate scheduling and tracking, maintain partner communication, review progress, and thoughtfully expand or refine the model as needs evolve.
Scope is built collaboratively.
Scholar responsibilities are aligned with completed training, role competencies, clinical leadership, compliance requirements, safety expectations, and the local operating environment.
Stakeholder-aligned design
Clinical, workforce, quality, compliance, and other appropriate leaders.
Scheduling & tracking
Structured coordination of Scholar participation across approved areas.
Progress reporting
Regular visibility into program activity, priorities, and agreed measures.
Ongoing review
Periodic stakeholder conversations to refine workflows and responsible growth.
Healthcare leaders on the value of building future talent from within.
Partner voices show what becomes possible when workforce development, community connection, and meaningful Scholar experiences are designed together.
“This program has allowed us to make a record number of job offers in our more rural markets and fill very critical roles that allow us to maintain operations and provide the utmost quality of care to the patients we serve.”
Human Resources Executive · Adventist Health
Explore partnership case studies.
These downloadable PDFs provide examples of workforce strategy and healthcare partnership implementation. Results reflect specific partner circumstances and are not guaranteed for every organization.
Start with a real conversation about what your organization needs.
Connect with Alexis Pierce to explore how COPE Health Scholars could align with your workforce, patient experience, quality, community, and talent-development priorities.
Tell us what your organization wants to build.
Share your priorities and the partnership opportunity you want to explore. Your inquiry is prepared as a direct email to Alexis Pierce, Assistant Vice President.
Site-aligned experience and scope design
Scholar recruitment, preparation, and ongoing support
Talent pipeline and priority-role pathway planning
Patient experience, quality, and community priorities
Tell us about your organization
Our partnership team reviews every inquiry.