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Benefits
Brigham and Women’s Hospital offers a comprehensive Flexible Benefit Program, including pre-tax deductions, designed to truly benefit our employees!
You can read a summary of each benefit below. For more detailed information, please click the "Benefits Summary" link on the left navigation of this page or visit the Benefits intranet website at http://is.partners.org/hr/new_web/bwh/bwh_benefits.htm
As one of the nation's most distinguished hospitals, it's only proper that we offer the kinds of salaries you'd expect from a healthcare leader. While salaries vary from position to position, rest assured that they are always competitive with like positions in other area hospitals, and in many cases exceed those of area hospitals.
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BWH's unique Benefit Time program is a flexible paid time-off program giving you up to 29 days off every year — and 33 days off after 7 years of employment. This includes vacation, holidays, and sick time. You also accrue 5 days a year into an extended sick leave bank. This time is available to you should you become ill and need more than five days off.
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We are committed to making sure your time away from work is as rewarding as your career with us. To that end, we've created flexible work schedules that promote a work/life balance you won't find at other hospitals. For more information on our unique work/life balance programs and flexible scheduling, click here to go to our work/life balance page.
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Health Dental, & Vision Insurance
BWH offers some of the best healthcare plans available, with many affordable options designed to fit the needs of you and your family. These include:
- Partners Plus
- Partners Value- This plan is free to benefit eligible employees and their dependents after one year of service!
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan
- Neighborhood Health Plan
- Tufts Associated Health Plan.
- Delta Dental
- Davis Vision
The Partners Plus and Partners Value plan is administered by Blue Cross/Blue Shield and encompasses a very large and comprehensive network of top notch hospitals located throughout New England, including BWH!
All deductions are pre-tax and extend to you, your family, eligible dependents, and same-sex domestic partners. Of course, if you're already covered under someone else's plan, you can opt out of BWH's health coverage and receive a supplement to your paycheck instead.
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Offered at no charge to employees working more than 20 hours per week, our excellent long-term disability coverage will allow you to receive up to 60% of your monthly income should you become sick or disabled.
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Allows you to save money and plan for retirement through pre-tax payroll deductions. Accounts may be set up through Fidelity, Valic and TIAA-Cref.
All employees are eligible to open flexible spending accounts that will reimburse you for out-of-pocket dependent or healthcare costs. Contributions to these accounts aren't subject to federal, state, or local taxes.
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We believe in the security life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance can provide. That's why benefits-eligible employees receive insurance equal to their salary, payable to anyone they choose. Of course, as your salary increases, so does the value of your policy. You may also purchase additional insurance coverage for yourself and your dependents.
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This program is designed to help you save and pay for the cost of health benefits during retirement, as well as provide access to retiree health plans sponsored by the hospital. One major feature of the program provides for a hospital matching contribution to help encourage savings under the program. You are eligible to participate in the RMSA beginning the calendar year in which you reach age 50.
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A voluntary benefit available to employees, spouses, same-sex domestic partners, parents/step parents and parents-in-law. In addition to conventional nursing home coverage, the policy covers services received in your home.
As a teaching hospital, we are firm believers in the value of education. That's why we extend generous tuition reimbursement to all our full-time and part-time benefits-eligible employees who have been employed with us longer than 6 months.
For hospital-related non-degree courses, undergraduate degrees, or graduate degrees, reimbursement is $2,000 per year for full-time (36 hours per week) employees, and $1,000 for part-time (20-35 hours per week) employees.
For job related certifications or job-related continuing education courses, reimbursement is $1,000 per year for full-time (36 hours per week) employees, and $500 for part-time (20-35 hours per week) employees.
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BWH provides two types of Backup Child Care services – the BWH Backup Child Care Center and Parents in a Pinch. The BWH Backup Child Care Center, located at 850 Boylston Street in Chestnut Hill, serves BWH employees who need emergency or planned backup child care for their children, aged eight weeks to 12 years. To learn more, visit us online or call 617-732-9543. BWH also offers "Parents in a Pinch", which can make available a child care provider in your home or referral to licensed family day care homes.
or call 617-732-9543. BWH also offers "Parents in a Pinch", which can make available a child care provider in your home or referral to licensed family day care homes.or call 617-732-9543. BWH also offers "Parents in a Pinch", which can make available a child care provider in your home or referral to licensed family day care homes.
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Subsidized memberships at Fitcorp, a fully equipped and professionally staffed fitness center located at 77 Louis Pasteur Avenue, Boston, MA 02115. Membership is at a reduced rate and is deducted from your paycheck.For BWH/PHS Boston Prices are as follows: $75.00/month, plus $50.00 initiation fee (usually $85.00/month, plus $150.00 initiation fee). Suburban Prices: $45.00/month, plus $50.00 initiation fee (usually $52.00/month, plus $150.00 initiation fee). For more detailed information on FitCorp and the services offered, please visit www.fitcorp.com. There are a variety of locations to choose from.
Boston locations: Longwood (617) 738.9229, Financial District (617) 261.4855, Government Center (617) 248.9797, Cambridge (617)494.9455,and Prudential (617) 262-2050.
Suburban locations: Charlestown (617) 242.6103, Lowell/Crosspoint (978) 454.6800, Waltham/Hobbs Brook (781) 466.6339, Waltham/Reservoir Place (781) 890.8422 and Burlington (781) 270.1121
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EAP is a free and confidential professional resource available to all BWH employees. This department focuses on work-life issues, stress reduction, family matters, crisis intervention and substance abuse, in addition to other areas of expertise. View the
EAP website.
All employees are encouraged to participate in a variety of classes and opportunities offered by both Workforce Development and Organizational Development and Learning that will give them the tools needed to be successful and to grow with the organization. These classes include: time management,continuing education, self assessment and career counseling to name a few.
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This program applies to all Brigham & Women’s Hospital employees(this includes both per diem and temporary employees). BWH offers a 50% subsidy on all MBTA passes. You may purchase one discounted T-pass each month. Monthly discounted MBTA passes are available through a pre-tax payroll deduction. Payroll deductions are taken out of the 4th paycheck of the month and the T-passes are distributed with your last paycheck of the month
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