{"id":2375,"date":"2023-10-10T09:40:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T16:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/news\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2025-09-26T12:32:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:32:18","slug":"samaritan-health-services-osu-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/news\/samaritan-health-services-osu-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"6,000 Samaritan employees eligible for scholarships to learn online thanks to new Oregon State collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"editor-note\"><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-size: 1.6rem;\">This story was originally published on the Oregon State University <a href=\"https:\/\/educationalventures.oregonstate.edu\/news\/samaritan-health-services-osu-collaboration\/\">Division of Educational Ventures news site<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. \u2014 Oregon State University is expanding its relationship with Samaritan Health Services to provide thousands of the regional health system\u2019s employees with more affordable access to academic programs and workforce education opportunities online.<\/p>\n<p>All 6,000 Samaritan employees in the mid-Willamette Valley and central Oregon coast are eligible for reduced tuition scholarships through a collaboration with Oregon State Ecampus, the university\u2019s online education unit.<\/p>\n<p>The Samaritan workers have access to more than 100 Oregon State degrees, programs and microcredentials online, including undergraduate- and graduate-level offerings in fields related to health, public policy, business, social sciences and engineering. Microcredentials are three-course bundles that enable learners to quickly gain new skills to meet industry needs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"textBox\" style=\"width: 20%;\">\n<h4>MEDIA CONTACT<\/h4>\n<p><a title=\"Send an email to Tyler Hansen, OSU Ecampus senior writer and communications manager\" href=\"mailto:tyler.hansen@oregonstate.edu\">Tyler Hansen<\/a><br \/>\n541-737-5740<\/p>\n<h4>SOURCE<\/h4>\n<p><a title=\"Send an email to Lisa L. Templeton, OSU Ecampus associate provost\" href=\"mailto:lisa.l.templeton@oregonstate.edu\">Lisa L. Templeton<\/a><br \/>\n541-737-1279<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis collaboration is a natural and exciting extension of Oregon State\u2019s land grant mission to make learning more accessible and affordable for people throughout the state,\u201d said Lisa L. Templeton, vice provost of OSU\u2019s Division of Educational Ventures. \u201cThrough Oregon State\u2019s high-quality online programs, we\u2019re honored to support all Samaritan employees, who do so much good throughout our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The agreement follows the recent opening of Oregon State\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/studenthealth.oregonstate.edu\/student-health-services-moving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health Center<\/a>, \u00a0a partnership between Samaritan and OSU\u2019s Student Health Services. Samaritan offers primary care and SamCare Express services to OSU students, faculty and staff as well as the public at the 30,000-square-foot facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Samaritan Health Services, we value lifelong learning and helping open doors for our employees to achieve personal and professional growth,\u201d said Scott Russell, Samaritan\u2019s vice president of human resources. \u201cWe are excited to team up with Oregon State University to make higher education more accessible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest in a series of similar corporate collaborations\u00a0Oregon State Ecampus has formed with organizations, including Amazon, Guild, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and Peet\u2019s Coffee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-30-<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Oregon State University Ecampus:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>As a national leader in online education, Oregon State Ecampus provides access to exceptional learning experiences that transform the lives of students in Oregon and around the world. OSU Ecampus \u2014 a part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/educationalventures.oregonstate.edu\/\">Division of Educational Ventures<\/a> \u2014 delivers more than 100 degrees, programs and microcredentials and over 1,750 classes online and in a hybrid format. Learn more at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/\">ecampus.oregonstate.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Samaritan Health Services: <\/strong>Samaritan is a\u00a0nonprofit regional health system that brings together community hospitals, physician clinics and health insurance plans to serve more than 265,000 residents of Oregon\u2019s Benton, Lincoln and Linn counties. Samaritan is governed by a board, which includes community members, physicians and hospital leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\"><\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute read<\/span><\/span>Oregon State University is expanding its relationship with Samaritan Health Services to provide thousands of the regional health system\u2019s employees with more affordable access to academic programs and workforce education opportunities online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,661,6,702,2],"tags":[662,598],"class_list":["post-2375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-corporate-and-workforce-education-unit","category-ecampus","category-educational-ventures","category-in-the-news","tag-division-of-educational-ventures","tag-workforce-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/news\/assets\/CEU-Samaritan-1280x550-1.jpg?fit=1280%2C550&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7BNSE-Cj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2692,"url":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/news\/oregon-association-chiefs-of-police-collaboration\/","url_meta":{"origin":2375,"position":0},"title":"OSU teams with Oregon police chiefs association, offers tuition benefit to 6,500+ employees","author":"Tyler Hansen","date":"December 4, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Editor's note: This story was originally published on the Oregon State University Division of Educational Ventures news site. 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