Jackson Hospital | US Healthcare Employer

 Let's take a moment to do some quick introductions. Keith, let's start with you.  

All right thank you, Danielle. Hello, and welcome, everyone. My name is Keith Pressman. I'm the Assistant Vice President of Human Resources here at Jackson Hospital. And I'm just excited to be here today to share with you the Jackson Hospital and family clinic, clinic and family. Hi, guys. I'm Rebecca I am director of nurse recruitment simulation and professional development here at Jackson Hospital and I'm excited to be here. 

All right well Keith and Rebecca, we're happy to have you here and excited to hear all about what you have to tell us about Jackson Hospital. And let's turn to fame next hi, good morning my name is Fame Mercado. I'm an international medical lab technologist working here in Jackson the hospital. And I've been working for 10 years. And I just moved here last December and so far I'm pretty. I'm pretty happy with all the transitions going on here. And I'm excited for more. 

All right, well, I'm sure our nurses around the world they're gonna have lots of questions for you fame. Sounds like you just started and we can't wait to hear about your experience. So if you are watching the Jackson hospital team and you have questions, please put them in the chat. They will try to take them live and if not, they will get to them in the chat after their 10 minutes. So Jackson team, you know the rules you have 10 minutes on the clock. We are so looking forward to hearing all about your facility and your state. Let's get ready and go. All right before I share an overview video of our organization, I just want to say our partnership with Connetics and AMN Healthcare. It's been a wonderful experience and we're eagerly awaiting our first group of RNs that we recruited with that partnership to arrive hopefully later this year. So let's start off with the video please. 

Hello, I'm Joe Riley, the CEO of Jackson hospital and clinic in Montgomery, Alabama. Our Jackson team enjoys a rich history of 77 years caring for the communities in the River region. I invite you to join our Jackson team, where you'll find a family that cares for you and your professional growth. Most importantly, you'll help us live our mission of caring for all those we serve. As with anything, any great company, it starts with a team. Everyone plays their role. And they bring it together. 

All the patients belong to everybody. You know, we help each other, we bounce ideas and thoughts off each other and we get the help that is needed to really do the best for our patients I feel like everybody communicates really well here. It's a very welcoming environment. I don't ever feel uncomfortable to approach physicians or even the power management here is a good support system. I didn't know everything when I came over here, but there are people who are willing to have working you feel that you're working with your family and friends, not about me. It's not about the nurses or more. It's about the patient. Just this morning, I ran into the CEO, and he knows you by name and that's what I just love about him. You're not just an employee it's a good place and somehow relatively peaceful. 

It's just very welcoming, quiet there's a lot to do a lot to see. We have a great zoo here. The biscuit stadium for baseball, a new waterpark. There's a lot of entertainment downtown Montgomery, good food, who doesn't like good food. That's a diverse area you could do pretty much anything that you want to do. For me, it's really the weather situation. Nice and sunny most of the time on our LinkedIn sales were cheap here compared to other states since relatively affordably. It's really good being here Montgomery. 

I think you see a free minute you see a dream come true. I look forward to welcoming you to the Jackson family all right, we're gonna go into a little more detail about Montgomery and our facility. So if I pull up the slideshow Next slide, please. A little bit about a Jackson hospital clinic we're nonprofit community hospital, we're serving patients in the Montgomery area plus the surrounding area, which we call the River region. And we've been doing that for 77 years here. Our facility is licensed for 344 beds and we have over 2000 employees that we serve the community in our patients. The next slide, we also are fortunate we have a multi specialty clinic here at the facility. We have over 100 providers in this clinic and IT services patients with over 22 specialties. So we're very fortunate there. Next slide, a new residency program. We started last year Family Medicine Residency Program, we started off with our first group of PGY ones in a few PGY twos and this summer, we will be having our first group of PGY threes and a new group of PGY ones into so it's a great service to the community and the patients that we serve. So we're very fortunate to have started that a year ago.  

All right, the next slide is Jackson Hospital, well known for providing exceptional patient-centered care to those in our communities. We've received many special awards and designations that highlight the technology and skill used throughout our hospital. And we are accredited through CIHQ. So I just wanted to mention some of our few technologies, innovations and awards. In the next slide, guy a little bit about living in Montgomery we are centrally located in the state of Alabama. Montgomery is also the capital city of Alabama. excellent place to raise families, the medium home price is well below the national average. Also, the safety here we have a steady for the past decade, there's been a steady decline in crime here. And in the crime rate here is also lower than the national average. So we're very fortunate there. So it's a great, great family environment. family-oriented geographic location.  

The weather here is excellent. It's you're not going to see snow here probably for a while. I think I've seen snow here once in the last decade. But if you'd like warm weather, this is the place for you. We have very mild winters. But and, you know, we do experience the four seasons, but generally it's going to be pretty warm here, especially during summer and winter. We're very fortunate to in this area to have several higher education facilities here, close to us. And in Montgomery. We have five universities that are located here. And there's many more throughout the state that that you would have access to. And then we also have a very diverse entertainment. Our sports entertainment culture here, and you saw that in the video. You know from the food definitely restaurants zoo, we have a minor league baseball team called the briskets. Yeah, a new whitewater facility located here in downtown Montgomery, so we're very diverse when it comes to entertainment as well. 

 All right, next slide. Also, just one last thing about us geographically, like I said, we're in located in Central Alabama, but we are close to beaches, we're close to the mountains. You can get to the beaches, the Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, in about three hours. If you go about two and a half hours, three hours north of us, you will be getting into the foothills of the mountains, the Appalachians and then you can get to Atlanta in about two hours. Actually, you can get to the airport Atlanta airport in less than two hours. So we're very geographically the location is perfect, depending on what types of activities you want to experience and what kind of geographic areas you want to experience. I'm gonna pass it on next slide to Becca, she's going to talk a little get more specific about nursing here at Jackson Hospital. 

Hi, guys as I mentioned before, I'm Rebecca, I am the director of nurse recruitment simulation and professional development here at Jackson hospital. I was also born and raised here in the River region area and I'm currently raising my family here. It is a great place to live. I think the greatest place I love about it is this hometown feel. Nursing a little nursing. Sorry, getting a little feedback there nursing at Jackson hospital. We have so many different specialties to offer and we actually have a eligibility and all of our specialties right now. So we have core seven er, we're a level three Trauma Center, we have critical care, we have a really awesome CVICU program with those open heart surgeries or pacu, Endo. And then of course, all of our acute care units like our ortho neuro or post surgical. We do a lot of urology and medical oncology, we also have a little palliative care as well.  

And we do also see some pediatrics, of course, we have labor and delivery postpartum. So as you can see just a wide range of it. Next slide, please. Professional development here, we have a awesome professional development program here. That is one of the things that I'm so excited about, I get so excited when I get new people in is I love to find out what will help you meet you how I can help you make your professional development call. So I will meet you, as early as in whenever you come into orientation, and some reviews of different things with you. We have a simulation program, we have a clinical ladder program. We've also just recently started a unit Champion Program, which you could also qualify for if you have a bachelor's degree. Next slide, please and that is for Jackson hospital and then same Why don't you tell us a little bit about your experience real quickly since you've been here the last couple of months. 

So, Jackson hospital and Montgomery Community. The laboratory staff and HR have been very helpful since day one. They have been very supportive and informative on how to go about living here. And personally, it's a whole different transition. So all of us, all of us here would really have been very appreciative of each and everyone here around us that they keep on just introducing us to the full court here in Montgomery. And I'm very fortunate to be here and joining the rest of the team here in Jackson hospital. 

All right, Jackson team exactly in 10 minutes great job. Thank you guys for sharing all of that information about your hospital about your community. You know, I was, as I was watching along in that video, you had one of your employees said, the CEO knows you by name, you're not just an employee. And I think by the way that all of you are talking about Jackson, you can really tell I mean, you know, Rebecca said it's a home away from home faith, talked about the fame talked about the community support that she's been receiving since she's been there. And I know that's so important for a lot of our nurses who are watching from around the world and wondering, Am I going to have that support when I arrived? Because it is a really big change.  

Just some other things that you also mentioned that I absolutely know our international nurses who are watching around the world are very interested in was that crime rates that's lower than national average and the cost of living that's well below the national average. I mean, those are huge factors that international nurses take into consideration, knowing that you're going to be able to buy a home. I live in California where buying a home is almost impossible. So knowing that you're going to live in a place that you can raise your family, the cost of living is affordable I think those things are invaluable.  

And I'm sure our nurses who are watching around the world are very, very excited to hear about all of those things. So thank you so much to the Jackson hospital team. We really appreciate our partnership and we appreciate having you on today. If you would like to apply to work at Jackson Hospital in Montgomery, Alabama, you can apply at AMNHealthcare.com/International and our recruiters are on hand ready and waiting and excited to take your applications and help you start your American dream.