The Cultural Competency Education Training Program enables new and existing employees to obtain training in diversity. Healthcare continues to hold the Annual R.E.A.C.H Out for Diversity Celebration and other cultural activities in various hospital locations. Outreach, Recruitment, and Selection UCSD Healthcare targets its outreach efforts with various local and systemwide organizations including the staff associations, Black Nurses Association, Hispanic Nurses Association, Maric College Recruitment Group, San Diego Urban League, San Diego Workforce, San Diego Nurse Recruiter Association, and the Department of Rehabilitation. It also places job announcements in a wide range of journals, including publications that are predominantly targeted for females and people of color, e.g., La Prensa, Asian American Journal, San Diego Voice and Viewpoint, and Minority Recruiter. The HR Generalist Teams continue to participate in various job fairs including Nurse Week Career Fair, Veteran's Employment Committee Job Fair, and Latino Book and Family Festival.
Hospital departments continue to conduct community outreach and recruitment activities.
As such, several departments work with local community colleges and private schools that offer technical and professional training certificates or degrees. These departments have helped the colleges develop curricula, to provide practical training and internships for the students, and to recruit graduates from these colleges. In working closely with the Staffing Unit of UCSD Healthcare HR, departments actively recruit diverse pool of applicants for their job vacancies, especially for those that are underutilized at the management and professional levels. Serving as a member of the Maric College Executive Advisory Board, the Healthcare Generalists reached out to students who are interested in obtaining a career in the patient care arena. UCSD Healthcare uses the Continuous Quality Improvement Model to recruit patient care and patient care support positions.