Speaking to Current Issues students at the Northern Marianas College earlier this month, Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. CEO Esther Mu\u00f1a encouraged them to pursue careers in healthcare to build up the hospital\u2019s workforce.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a job for everyone at CHCC\u2026such as healthcare finance if you like numbers. If you like medical records and understanding concepts, medical coding is a good job,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Mu\u00f1a said that, as a member of the State Development Board, they often discuss how to encourage more students to get into the medical field. <\/p>\n
\u201cI often tell the students that you don\u2019t have to be a nurse or a doctor to pursue a career in healthcare as you can be anything you want be,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Speaking from experience, Mu\u00f1a said she started by getting a degree in accounting, became a medical transcriber, went into healthcare management, hospital administration, medical office manager, business office manager, chief finance officer, hospital administrator, chief operating officer, and finally, chief executive officer.<\/p>\n
Right now, Mu\u00f1a is working on providing incentives for students who want to pursue nursing and eventually hire them at CHCC.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are finding ways how we can provide incentives for students who are pursuing the course of nursing and we talked about incentives like [student] loan repayment and provide bonuses if you sign a contract with CHCC because giving incentives is a practice in the U.S.,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe love our [foreign workers] but the reality is we also have the young generation that are coming in who more educated now and are passionately pursuing degrees. I want to say is, if you have questions, visit us at CHCC and I\u2019ll be here to mentor you,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Mu\u00f1a said the door at CHCC is always open to local hires.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe law specifically says that if you are going to apply a nurse as H1-B\u2026one requirement is that the applicant must have a bachelor\u2019s degree. The reason we opted against it is we are basically preserving the pipeline of NMC because, if we are going to require that everyone has a bachelor\u2019s degree, then even the nurses from the Philippines that have bachelor\u2019s degrees can be processed as H1-Bs,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we do that, it means we are blocking the college students that are coming from NMC. We don\u2019t want to do that as we want to preserve our pipeline, preserve local hires, and also take care of those who have been here for quite a long time,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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