Benefits

Every one of our employees plays a critical role in caring for our patients. We recognize you can best care for patients when you’re able to take care of yourself and family. We offer an excellent benefits package and several career development opportunities to ensure you can be the best in your role and thrive throughout your Highland career. 

Health and Dental Insurance Plan

Group health insurance plans are available for eligible employees, their spouses, and dependent children. Employees can chose among varying levels of medical and dental coverage to find the plan that best fits their individual and family needs. All medical options are available on a pre-tax basis.  Employees have access to a provider network which allows for quality care at a lower cost. 

Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA)

Full- and part-time employees may elect these savings accounts to have money deducted pre-tax to help pay for certain qualified health or dependent care expenses.

Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance

To those employees who qualify, short- and long-term disability insurance is available to help protect against the loss of salary or wages if you become disabled.

Life Insurance

Eligible employees are covered by a group term life insurance policy. You can also purchase supplemental life insurance in varying amounts for yourself and dependents. 

Paid Time-off

Highland offers a competitive paid time-off allotment for all eligible employees for vacation, holidays, and sick time.

Tuition Assistance

Highland encourages you to continue your professional development through the Tuition Assistance Program.

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

This free and confidential service provides information, education, counseling, and support for you and your family members.

Retirement Plan

The benefit provided by this plan is based on an established formula, which incorporates length of service, age, and average salary. Employees are automatically enrolled in the retirement plan after being employed by Highland for two years and completing 1,000 hours per calendar year. Employees also have the opportunity to make contributions into this plan via payroll deduction.

YOU 365

Highland’s comprehensive lifestyle program is designed to empower all employees to support all aspects of your life – physical, mental, emotional, financial and social. 

Home Ownership Incentive Program

Highland has teamed up with the City of Rochester and Advantage Federal Credit Union to offer a financial benefit towards the purchase of a home in designated neighborhoods. 

Group Rates and Discounts

Highland negotiates opportunities for our employees for a variety of special discounts ranging from automobile insurance and homeowner's insurance to travel and entertainment to retail goods and services.

Education

Highland Hospital offers a comprehensive internal training program, as well as a generous tuition reimbursement program and several scholarship opportunities each year. We encourage you to continue your professional development through our in-house training or at an accredited education institution with our Tuition Assistance program. 

We have also have a robust online library of training courses, offering you many resources for your professional training, growth, and development.

Growth

Whether you are seeking your first job or you are at the top of your field, your growth and development are important to us. And, we think that once you are here, you’ll want to stay, so we have designed programs that allow you to grow throughout your entire career at Highland. Our Career Ladder Program makes it easy to see how to advance in your current career or, perhaps, explore a career path that takes you in a different direction.

We are equally committed to building and helping great leaders, and our Leadership Development Program offers ongoing training to help managers and supervisors lead effectively.