Kaiser Permanente Northwest 2016 Health Care Career Scholarship Ceremony
Channel: Kaiser Permanente
Date: 2016-07-26

Kaiser Permanente Northwest hosted a celebration for recipients of its 2016 Health Care Career Scholarship on Saturday, May 14 at Oregon Health & Science University. In recognition of the positive connection between education level and health, the organization awarded more than half a million dollars in scholarships to 141 high school seniors and 25 college students pursuing health care careers.

Scholarships are awarded annually in amounts of $2,000, $5,000, and $10,000 to graduating high school seniors and continuing Kaiser Scholars (college sophomores who originally received the scholarship as high school seniors).

The majority of scholarship recipients are diverse or underrepresented, first-generation college-bound, bilingual, and/or in financial need. Scholarship recipients represent the Kaiser Permanente Northwest service area, which spans from north of Longview, Wash., to Eugene, Ore.  

Kaiser Permanente has awarded more than $2.5 million in scholarships to more than 900 students since the scholarship program’s inception in 2008.

For more information, visit: http://k-p.li/scholarship