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CHicagoland

Healthcare Workforce Collaborative

uniting employers and industry partners

Education &
Training

Bridging the gap by uniting a variety of partners across the healthcare industry

Local &
Targeted Hiring

Focusing recruitment efforts in areas with higher concentrations of unemployment

Retention &
Career Pathways

Supporting career
pathways and opportunities to advance for employees

Upcoming Events

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02.20.25

11:00am - 12:00pm

Career Pathway Programs Across the Nation Series: Boston Hospitals Recruit & Train With Condensed Curriculum International

Join us to learn how Condensed Curriculum International (CCI) worked with UMass Global and Mass General Brigham to build the Ready-To-Work program, designed to offer no-cost, short-term training programs to underemployed Boston residents and existing employees seeking advancement. Through their partnership with CCI, the Ready-To-Work team has successfully recruited and enrolled over 15,000 candidates, resulting in more than 750 job
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02.25.25

9:00am - 10:00am

Equitable Workforce Health as a Sustainable Business Strategy: Research Findings From UIC’s Center for Healthy Work

Do employer-based health and well-being initiatives exacerbate health inequities? Join researchers from the University of Illinois Chicago’s Center for Health Work to learn about their ongoing collaborative project with a regional mid-Atlantic health system, studying the organization’s efforts to implement an equitable culture of health and well-being (HWB). The research focus has at its center the idea that health equity
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03.04.25

8:30am - 10:00am

March 2025 Quarterly Meeting

Quarterly meetings are open to all stakeholders invested in creating a stronger, more inclusive healthcare workforce in Chicagoland. Meetings typically include updates on our work, presentations about new programs and partnership opportunities, and networking. Exact agenda TBD ~ to be added closer to the meeting date.
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"The biggest benefit to being a CHWC member is being able to truly collaborate and connect with other healthcare organizations in Chicago: to see the work they’re doing in workforce development, benchmark best practices, and see how each of us is addressing similar challenges. 

I’ve been able to glean a lot of insight into ways we can build up our strategy at Advocate Aurora Health. We were even able to build a collaborative program with a couple other providers and receive funding because CHWC created the space to start that dialogue. It’s an important space that we need to continue to build up as our workforce challenges evolve."

- Michele Smith, CHWC Steering Committee Chair, Director of Workforce Development, Advocate Aurora Health