Formal mentoring and job training abound for hourly workers at this academic medical center, with 550-plus instructor-led classes, clinical scholarship and advancement programs, comprehensive education on critical care essentials, and courses on improving communication and understanding cultural dynamics. Special succession programs help to boost high-potential staff members into leadership roles.

CEO: Stephen Mckernan

Administrator, HR: James Pendergast

% of employees who are non-exempt workers 91%

% of non-exempt workers who are women 79%

Work hours required for family health insurance: 20

Formal advancement program offered for hourly employees? Yes

% of hourly employees promoted to salaried positions who were women: 81%

Job-skills training offered for hourly employees? Yes

Managers rewarded for helping hourly employees advance? No

Lactation program offered for nursing mother employees? Yes

Paid time off offered to employees? Yes

Employee mothers with one year of service offered extra time off (beyond the 12 weeks required by FMLA) following childbirth? Yes