Education Assistance Programs

All benefits are pro-rated for part-time employees.

• Education Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Scholarships
• Educational Affiliations

Education Leave
Twelve days paid leave a year for full-time employees.
* Pro-rated for part-time employees.

Tuition Reimbursement
Full-time employees may receive up to $1,000 per calendar year for job-related approved education and training.
*Pro-rated for part-time employees.

Scholarships
Mills-Peninsula offers a variety of scholarship opportunities to employees and their children:

• Student loan forgiveness program for employees hired as Staff Nurses and Pharmacists.
• Mills-Peninsula Scholarship Program funded by the Auxiliary and the Hospital Foundation -- scholarships for MPHS employees and San Mateo County residents who are seeking health care careers.

Download 2011 Scholarship Application >>

• For information about the Peninsula Health Care District financial aid loan forgiveness program, visit www.peninsulahealthcaredistrict.org.
• Sutter Scholars, a competitive scholarship program to support the college education of children and grandchildren of Sutter Health employees.
• Mills-Peninsula’s School of Diagnostic Imaging -- the Radiologic Technologist (Radiographer) plays an extremely important role working closely with the Radiologist (doctor) to produce high-quality images on X-Ray film that are crucial to proper diagnosis and treatment.

Our School of Diagnostic Imaging was given a rare eight-year accreditation in 2002, the maximum allowed. Onces students graduate, they are eligible to take the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists and California Diagnostic exams in radiography. Graduates can work in more than a dozen subspecialties such as MRI, CT scans, cardiac catherization and mammography.

Educational Affiliations
Mills-Peninsula has a close, long-standing relationship with local colleges and universities such as University of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, Skyline College, Notre Dame de Namur University and College of San Mateo. Many of these nursing students do their internships with Mills-Peninsula.