Lutheran Health Network Pathways Benefit Helps Employees Pay Down Student Debt
5/18/2022
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (May 18, 2022) – Lutheran Health Network employees are now eligible for new and enhanced benefits to help eliminate existing student debt faster, pursue additional professional education and advance their careers.
The Lutheran Health Network Pathways benefit program was created to support and retain employees and attract a strong workforce – especially frontline nurses, technicians, therapists and other clinicians and caregivers, along with support personnel.
“Lutheran Health Network appreciates our employees, and we want to support them,” said Scott Teffeteller, Lutheran Health Network market chief executive officer. “We hope the Lutheran Health Network Pathways initiative will ease the burden of student loan debt and allow employees to focus on achieving their goals and career success.”
Benefits include a new student loan repayment program, which enables employees with outstanding student debt to consolidate loans, reduce interest rates and benefit from employer-sponsored payments. For most clinical employees, Lutheran Health Network will directly pay a portion of loan premiums as long as the employee remains current with payments, offsetting student loan balances up to $20,000 per employee.
A new employee reimbursement program has also been established for license or certification renewals required for all job classifications and can be used for any testing or renewal not already offered for free by the hospital.
In addition, a long-standing tuition reimbursement program providing employees up to $5,000 in tax-free reimbursement annually is being expanded and can now be used for continuing education related to any role within the hospital. Previously, employees could only use the tuition reimbursement program toward studies in their current field of work.
Visit lutheranhealth.net/career-opportunities to learn more about careers at Lutheran Health Network.
Back