{"id":11739,"date":"2012-10-05T11:08:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T17:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=11739"},"modified":"2012-10-05T11:08:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T17:08:51","slug":"idaho-falls-hospital-becomes-first-medical-center-to-receive-training-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/10\/05\/idaho-falls-hospital-becomes-first-medical-center-to-receive-training-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Falls Hospital Becomes First Medical Center To Receive Training Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11740\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/Eastern-Idaho-Regional-Medical-Center.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11740\" title=\"Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/Eastern-Idaho-Regional-Medical-Center-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/Eastern-Idaho-Regional-Medical-Center-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/Eastern-Idaho-Regional-Medical-Center-620x428.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center will receive up to $31,500 to train ten registered nurses and a child life specialist for its new Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, according to the Idaho Department of Labor.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital is the first medical center to receive a <a title=\"Understanding Workforce Development Training Grants\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/workforce-training-grants\/\" target=\"_blank\">workforce development training grant<\/a> through the Labor Department.\u00a0 The grants are a reimbursement of training dollars, paid for by a 3 percent tax on businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The department reports the average wage for these jobs is $24 per hour.\u00a0 In order to receive a training reimbursement, businesses must pay at least $12 an hour plus benefits.\u00a0 <!--more--><div class=\"related-content alignleft\"><h4 class=\"related-header\">Related<\/h4><div class=\"links\"><h5>Posts<\/h5><ul><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/06\/26\/clawbacks-in-connecticut-what-idaho-could-learn-from-how-one-state-handles-breaks-for-business\/\">Clawbacks In Connecticut: What Idaho Could Learn From How One State Handles Breaks For Business<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/06\/25\/companies-receive-idaho-training-grants-but-make-no-long-term-promises\/\">Companies Receive Idaho Training Grants, But Make No Long-Term Promises<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/10\/04\/how-idaho-is-trying-to-boost-its-number-of-doctors\/\">How Idaho Is Trying To Boost Its Number Of Doctors<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"topics\"><h5>Topics<\/h5><p class=\"topic\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/06\/WelderHandsCU_Small.jpg\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/workforce-training-grants\/\">Understanding Workforce Development Training Grants<\/a><\/p><p class=\"topic\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/09\/Smither-Petrie.jpg\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/doctor-shortage\/\">Understanding Idaho\u2019s Doctor Shortage<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Workforce Development Council, which oversees the training fund, authorized access to the fund for health care providers a year ago to help them cope with the state\u2019s shortage of personnel in many health care occupations. Until then, the fund was open only to businesses that sold products or services outside their region of the state.&#8221; &#8211; Labor Department<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>BioLife Plasma Services has also received a training grant of up to $524,000.\u00a0 The company is training 77 new employees for its offices in Meridian, Ammon and Hayden.\u00a0 These jobs pay $14.88 on average.<\/p>\n<p>Since the workforce development training fund was created in 1996, it has reimbursed 200 companies more $38 million, according to the department.<\/p>\n<p>Still, as <em>StateImpact<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/06\/25\/companies-receive-idaho-training-grants-but-make-no-long-term-promises\/\" target=\"_blank\">has reported<\/a> over the last year, companies that receive these training grants don&#8217;t have to commit to retaining these employees for any length of time.\u00a0 At least <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/06\/25\/companies-receive-idaho-training-grants-but-make-no-long-term-promises\/\" target=\"_blank\">11 training grant recipients<\/a> no longer do business in Idaho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center will receive up to $31,500 to train ten registered nurses and a child life specialist for its new Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, according to the Idaho Department of Labor. The hospital is the first medical center to receive a workforce development training grant through the Labor Department.\u00a0 The grants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":11740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[165],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}