JET moves to Arnot Health campus, management

ELMIRA — Joint Education and Training, Inc., (JET) is now operated by the Arnot Health education department and has moved to the Arnot campus on Roe Avenue.

Previously, three area hospitals — Arnot Ogden, Ira Davenport Memorial, and St. Joseph’s — jointly operated JET, which provides professional-development training for the health-care field. However, now that Arnot Health oversees the operation of those three hospitals, it just made sense to have Arnot Health operate JET as well, says Linda MacAuslan, assistant director of education at Arnot Health. (Arnot took over operation of Ira Davenport in 2010 and St. Joseph’s in early 2011.)

JET moved into the Arnot Health building at 600 Roe Ave. in Elmira from its former location at 2205 College Ave. in Elmira Heights during Christmas week, MacAuslan says. But other than changing locations and management, not much else has changed, she says.

“JET still provides the same quality education services that they have provided in the past,” MacAuslan says. JET provides an array of professional-development courses including management and supervisory training, team building and communication-skills training, computer courses, and leadership courses.

Many students come from the three hospitals, MacAuslan says, but JET also attracts students from outside the hospital network. It provides state-required, infectious-disease-prevention training, which all registered nurses in New York are required to have every four years.

Founded in 1972, JET provides training primarily to the Southern Tier and Finger Lakes regions as well as the northern part of Pennsylvania. 

JET trains between 600 and 800 people every year, according to MacAuslan, but hopes to grow that number even more.

“We hope to branch out to online courses and that will help our attendance also,” she says. “We’re in the investigation stages, and we’re going to work on it this summer.”

MacAuslan is hopeful that JET can begin offering online classes by the end of this year or early next year.

Information about courses is available online at www.arnothealth.org under the “Events and Classes” listing.

JET currently employs two people, one full time and one part time, with no plans to change that, according to MacAuslan.

Arnot Health is a three-hospital regional health-care system that provides diagnostic, secondary, and tertiary care as well as rehabilitative and wellness services across the Southern Tier and into northern Pennsylvania. The system has 809 licensed beds, including 493 acute care, 231 long-term care, 40 physical-medicine rehabilitation, 25 psychiatric, and 20 substance-abuse rehabilitation beds. The system has more than 300 physicians.

According to Arnot’s 2010 Form 990 on file with www.guidestar.org, the organization employs 2,565 people and reported revenue of $257.5 million and expenses of $251.1 million.