COPE Health Solutions Launches First Pediatric Hospital Scholar Program with Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC)

ORANGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--COPE Health Solutions is poised to launch its first pediatric COPE Health Scholars Program through a partnership with Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC), a pediatric healthcare system in Southern California.

The COPE Health Scholars programs are experiential educational and career ladder programs that support students and community members to grow their career in healthcare with educational and training opportunities. The program offers clinical and administrative rotations with nurses, doctors, other care team members and administrators by providing direct patient care and preparing the Scholar’s with a career growth pathway.

When the program launches at CHOC in January 2024, it will become the first pediatric health site in the nation to offer this innovative program.

The COPE Health Scholar program is designed for high school graduates, college students and career changers, combining online coursework with a minimum of 280 hours of in-person experience at CHOC and access to best-fit training and job opportunities.

“COPE Health Solutions has a long history of delivering high value experiential education directly linked to targeted career training and job placement, improving access to care, quality and diversity of the health care workforce through the Health Scholar program. Many of our current Scholars and alumni are interested in pursuing careers in pediatrics and this program allows individuals to get a fully immersive experience filled with training and jobs opportunities to work across a broad spectrum of healthcare,” said Margaret Peterson, RN, MSN, PhD, Principal and Health Workforce Solutions Leader with COPE Health Solutions.

CHOC and COPE Health Solutions will welcome their inaugural cohort of Health Scholars in early 2024.

About COPE Health Solutions

COPE Health Solutions is a national tech-enabled services firm with a population health management analytics software solution Analytics for Risk Contracting (ARC), collaboratively implementing proven products with payer and provider clients to power success in risk arrangements and development of the future workforce. Our multidisciplinary team provides payers and providers with the experience, capabilities, and tools needed to plan for, design, implement, and support strategy development and execution. We are driven by our passion to help transform health care delivery, align financial incentives to support population health management, and build the workforce needed for value-based care.

About the Health Scholar Program

The COPE Health Solutions Health Scholar program provides participants with unique experiential education, mentoring, shadowing, targeted job training and placement, and a career ladder in health care. To accommodate participants’ work, education and other commitments, the flexible program can be finished in three to 15 months, based on the number of four-hour shifts attended per week. Graduates of the Health Scholars Program receive a certificate of completion from the Keck Graduate Institute, a member of the Claremont Colleges. Participants have access to additional career training and priority access to jobs.