Teaming up to build
healthcare’s workforce

Covista recruits and enrolls qualified candidates into a dedicated cohort for your health system. Your team gets to know applicants, and students complete clinical rotations in your facilities—taught by our faculty and yours, following your protocols. Throughout the program, students engage with your leadership through customized experiences that build institutional belonging before graduation. They’re ready to contribute from day one because they’ve already learned your workflows, technology systems and culture.

Traditional recruitment brings candidates who have been educated at any number of schools and systems. These recruits need to learn your organization and may need to “unlearn” what they have learned elsewhere. Covista partnerships deliver graduates who understand your workflows, technology, culture and standards because they developed their skills exclusively in your facilities with your workforce. This drives down the costs of turnover—travel nurses, repeated onboarding and care gaps—while ensuring continuity and consistency in patient care. You're building a sustainable workforce pipeline, not just filling open positions.

Covista is America's largest healthcare educator, graduating more than 24,000 healthcare professionals annually across our five accredited institutions. We partner directly with 270+ hospitals and healthcare systems across the country. We expand access to talent pools others can't reach—working adults, career changers and students in underserved communities—unlocking healthcare workforce capacity at scale. Our SSM Health partnership demonstrates what's possible at scale: 400 practice-ready nurses annually across four states, delivering consistent care quality across every facility from day one. 

Yes. Covista builds custom workforce pathways designed around the specific needs of each health system we partner with—their markets, clinical environment and workforce needs. The Advocate Health collaboration is purpose-built this way: an Acute and Progressive Care specialty track tailored to their high-demand roles, delivered through Chamberlain University, the largest school of nursing in the U.S., through its Practice Ready. Specialty Focused.® model. As America's largest healthcare educator, Covista has the education infrastructure, clinical expertise and geographic reach to build this kind of custom pathway for any health system. 

The model that works is built around the people in those communities rather than competing for nurses who already exist elsewhere. Covista's programs are built around the way people live—online, evenings, weekends and hybrid—reaching working adults and career changers that traditional nursing education overlooks. Rather than redistributing talent that's already too scarce, we build new nurses trained and rooted in the communities that need them most, with a direct line of sight to employment. By addressing cost, scheduling and career uncertainty, the model removes the three barriers most likely to keep qualified people out of nursing—and because Covista builds custom pathways around each system's needs, it can be scoped to a rural or critical access system's specialty gaps and geography.