About Us

Since 1969, UHS-Pruitt Corporation, through its affiliates, has been providing professional healthcare services throughout the Southeast.  With our beginnings as the Toccoa Nursing Center in Toccoa, Georgia; we have grown to over 130 affiliated locations in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.  But through it all, the focus has always been and will continue to be - quality.  Quality care, quality programs, quality services and quality people.

As of June 30, 2002, UHS -Pruitt Corporation currently manages through affiliates 56 nursing homes, four personal care centers, a management company, three pharmacies, a hospice with eight offices and a separate inpatient unit, a care management company, four certified home health agencies, seventeen real estate companies, a transportation company, Part B Enteral and Parental Billing Company and food and linen company. Additionally, UHS-Pruitt Corporation entered into a management agreement with two other facilities owned partly by the sole share holder.

Benefits

UHS-PRUITT WORKFORCE PROGRAM
Health Professional Education Financial Assistance

The UHS-Pruitt Corporation Department of Human Resources has developed the UHS-Pruitt Workforce Financial Assistance Program, and has the responsibility to assist all UHS-Pruitt affiliated organizations to deal with recruiting health professionals, manpower planning, and technical assistance. The UHS-Pruitt Workforce Financial Assistance Program is also responsible for working with existing state and federal programs to maximize community use of primary educational gifts, and local, state, and federal grants and contracts.

Part of the UHS-Pruitt Workforce Financial Assistance Program incorporates recruitment and retention assistance activities, and includes programs which are geared to help rural and underserved urban communities served by affiliated companies in recruiting health professionals. Health professionals covered by the UHS-Pruitt Workforce Financial Assistance Program include: registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified nursing assistants and home health aides, pharmacists, physical, occupational, and speech Therapists, clinical social workers and health care administrators. The program also provides assistance to students who aspire to these professions.  

The UHS-Pruitt Workforce Program also offers recruitment assistance through our Web based posting of available positions throughout the UHS-Pruitt system for those who are not interested in educational loan repayment or scholarship opportunities.



UHS-Pruitt Workforce Financial Assistance Program
The UHS-Pruitt Workforce Financial Assistance Program was created to provide professional education loan repayment assistance to current employees and aspiring health care professionals who are willing to continue their employment with a UHS-Pruitt affiliated company.  A minimum two year service commitment at an employment site approved by the Human Resources Department is required by those individuals who are awarded educational loan repayment funding. Aspiring health care professionals may also be eligible for assistance if they are willing to enter into an agreement which provides for a minimum two year service commitment post graduation.

Health Care Professional educational loan repayment applications to the Program are available from the UHS-Pruitt Human Resources Department and from many UHS-Pruitt affiliated company locations. Applications are considered quarterly. Award recommendations are made quarterly to the Executive Leadership Team.  Award and Denial letters are mailed out the end of each calendar quarter.

A current list of assistance opportunities is available from the Human Resources Department.  A current list of available employment opportunities by type of service and location is available by clicking on the “Employment” tab on our web site (www.uhs-pruitt.com) or by contacting any local affiliated UHS-Pruitt office or facility.

Schools/Training Institutions may also apply to have outstanding students received educational loan repayment assistance. The School/Training Institution must complete an Application to the Program. School/Training Institution Applications are available from the Human Resources Department.