Purpose Pathways · University-to-Epic-Certified Talent Pipeline · Purpose Health
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Purpose Pathways

Your community's graduates. Your Epic team.

Grown here, certified, and yours to keep. We recruit graduates from your regional universities, pay them through a 13-week Epic academy, place them on your team for 24 months at roughly half the cost of a traveler seat, then hand them to you as employees with no conversion fee.

~50%

Of a traveler seat during the 24-month placement1

13 wks

Paid Epic academy, taught by certified Principal Trainers

24 mo

Placement on your team, mentored two-in-the-box

$0

Conversion fee when they join your payroll

The Problem

Certified Epic talent is scarce, expensive, and leaves.

Health systems fill analyst seats with travelers who cost twice what a permanent hire does and rarely stay past the contract. Meanwhile the communities those systems serve are full of capable graduates with no path into the field. Purpose Pathways builds that path in your community and ends it on your payroll.


How It Works

Five steps. Twenty-four months. Zero conversion fee.

STEP 01

You commit the seats

Name the analyst seats and application tracks the cohort will fill before we recruit anyone, and take a governance seat as founding partner.

STEP 02

We recruit locally

Eight graduates selected from your regional universities through aptitude screening and panel interviews. One interviewer per track is yours.

STEP 03

We train, you sponsor

A 13-week paid academy toward Epic certification, delivered by our certified Principal Trainers. You hold the sponsorship as the direct Epic customer; we pay every course, exam, and travel dollar.

STEP 04

They work 24 months on your team

Associates join at roughly half a traveler seat, mentored two-in-the-box by our named senior analysts, with quarterly KPI reviews.

STEP 05

They convert, no fee

At month 24 they become your employees: certified, two years deep in your build, rooted in your community. You write the offer letters; we charge nothing.


What the Numbers Look Like

Priced against the traveler seat it replaces, learning curve counted.

We model associates at 80% of an experienced analyst's output in year one and 95% in year two, and the saving reports as identified temporary-labor reduction. We rebuild the model with your seats and your rates before you commit to anything.

Placement

~50% of a traveler seat

During the 24-month placement, at a two-year fixed rate.1

Academy

13 weeks paid

Before the first day on your team, funded in full by us.

Conversion

$0 fee

At month 24. You write the offer letters.

Risk

0 recruiting dollars

Spent before seats are committed.


Who It Serves

Three partners. One pipeline.

Replace contract-labor spend you already carry with analysts who stay.

You name the seats, hold the Epic sponsorship, and take a governance seat. We carry recruiting, academy wages, certification costs, and two years of senior mentoring. At month 24 the cohort is yours.

Seats priced at roughly half a traveler, with a two-year fixed rate

Quarterly KPI reviews and named senior analysts two-in-the-box

A workforce-development line your board, regulator, and state RHTP office read the same way

Certified analysts who know your build and live in your service area

Placed-graduate outcomes you can publish, at no cost to the institution.

We ask for candidate referrals and career-services channel access, roughly 60 qualified applicants for eight offers. Campus events run with your career center. Curriculum co-design is open to faculty who want it.

Eight placements per cohort into certified healthcare IT careers with a regional anchor employer

An employer partnership that repeats every year the program runs

First position on any future credential or internship pipeline built on it

Program costs carried entirely by Purpose Health and the health system

A certified healthcare IT career that stays home.

Paid from day one, no unpaid internship. An Epic credential you cannot self-enroll for, sponsored by the health system and funded by us. Two years of mentored work on a live production build, then a permanent role with the region's largest healthcare employer.

13-week paid academy, five weeks core curriculum then eight weeks in a technical track

Epic certification, with course, exam, and travel costs paid by Purpose Health

A step-raise schedule over the two-year placement and a designed conversion at month 24

Applications open through your university career center, not through this site


Program Calendar

One cohort a year, on a fixed rhythm.

Months 1 to 2

Seats committed

Founding-partner memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed. Application tracks named, governance seat filled.

Months 3 to 5

Campus recruiting

Events at partner universities, aptitude screening, panel interviews, and a client interview per track.

Month 6

Eight offers accepted

Two-year commitment terms, step-raise schedule, and the designed conversion in writing.

Months 7 to 9

Academy and certification

Thirteen weeks paid, then Epic certification exams under your sponsorship.

Months 10 to 33

Placement, then conversion

Twenty-four months on your team with quarterly reviews. Offer letters at month 24 of placement.


Why Purpose Health

We already run the environments the cohort will join.

Purpose Pathways sits inside programs we deliver today: Epic L1 to L3 managed services at academic medical centers, an Epic Connect Accredited Community Connect program built end to end, and named analysts renewed six-plus years on our anchor account. The mentors are the people who run those environments.

7+ yrs

Continuous tenure at our longest-standing Epic client

6+ yrs

Named-analyst renewals on our anchor account

Since 2024

Epic Connect Accredited Community Connect delivery

2-in-box

Every associate paired with a named senior analyst

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Footnote register: ¹ Planning estimate at base-case rates; seat pricing confirmed in the founding-partner MOU. Epic, MyChart, Agent Factory, Art, Emmie, and Penny are trademarks of Epic Systems Corporation. MEDITECH and Expanse are trademarks of Medical Information Technology, Inc.