MetroHealth develops diverse healthcare leaders through nation’s first high school inside a hospital

In 2016, MetroHealth and the Cleveland Metropolitan School District opened the Lincoln-West School of Science & Health, the nation’s first high school located inside a hospital.

The year-round school focuses on modern science, health and medicine. Students are immersed inside the vibrant MetroHealth System where they can interact with real-world opportunities and explore a range of career fields beyond health, including HR, IT, marketing, food service, engineering, and more.

The first graduating class in 2019 had a 100% college acceptance rate.

Equity drives the focus at the Lincoln-West School of Science & Health at MetroHealth, with a mastery-based learning model that helps ensure students graduate with the skills they need. The school also offers job mentoring plus internship experience at MetroHealth which ensures students graduate prepared for college, career and citizenship.

Knowing that the healthcare industry lacks diversity, MetroHealth is encouraging diverse students, especially underserved youth, to develop passion and interest in health and leverage their talents to serve their communities. Healthcare leaders that represent the communities they serve can help patients feel more welcome and included plus address equity and discrimination issues as well as look for the underlying causes or social determinants of health impacting patients’ overall health and wellbeing.

Find out more about CHC’s partnership with MetroHealth. MetroHealth Partnership | CHC: Creating Healthier Communities (chcimpact.org)

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