 Members of Pikeville Medical Center's recruitment team joined Pikeville High School seniors Tuesday morning to talk about career opportunities. Upon their visit, Mountaintop spoke with school staff and students about career paths and their plan to help Eastern Kentucky's future. Well, what I love about it is that it demonstrates to all of our students that there are people beyond these walls here at this school or any school that really care about where they're going and not only about the opportunities that they may have here and how they can put their hands on their back and just push and support them, but that we're trying to show them that, hey, we have opportunities right here at home for them to be connected to professionally, that we can have opportunities for students to go away to college but have avenues to come back here and serve in different ways because there's no better place than home here to help each other out. And again, it's a culture here that we're trying to establish where we lean on each other, we support each other and what better way to really hit that home within our community by having people all over this county showing that they're here for these students. We, our Pikeville Medical Center, and we are an amazing place to work, healthcare heroes of all types work here, all who deserve great rewards, so while our heroes are working hard to take care of our patients and visitors, we are taking care of them with top tier benefits, higher pay rates, and great sign on bonuses, so join our team today. So what are you waiting for? Apply today! Incredible opportunities await at PMCjobs.org. During PMC's visit, recruiters introduced careers without and with secondary education. They include becoming a registered nurse, nursing assistant, phlebotomist, and more. Students Alex Rogers and Kylie Hall explain why they're choosing healthcare as a career path. It really lets them know what other options are out there and how much that these options can actually help people because really they're in need of more staff because there's just too many people per, you know, different like nurse, whatever, whatever career may be needed, there's just too many people to the actual doctor or nurse. I just hope that they realize what is at stake here and what they can be helping if they go into this field. This is my home. I understand why somebody would want to leave and get out, but also this is the community that raised me and everything I have, I have because of this community, I have because of this place and there's a need for doctors of every specialty right here in eastern Kentucky. Statistically we have less doctors in every specialty. There's doctors right now who can't take on more patients because they have too many. Realistically, we shouldn't have to drive to Lexington to see a specialist. I think we need more doctors here and I intend to push that along in the future and hopefully be a part of the change. Also discussed during PMC's visit was financial assistance for students seeking to pursue healthcare as a career. Recreater Christian Haguey reveals more. So we're actually offering an educational assistance program and that's for respiratory therapists, that's for rad techs and that's for medical lab technologists and what this is is a $10,000 payment from Piper Medical Center to you to which you can use that money for whatever you want. It's actually sent to you as soon as you're accepted into that program and you commit to PMC, that money is sent to you up front and that becomes your money. You can do exactly what you want with it. You can buy a new car. You can pay for your educational loans or you can just pay for housing. You do anything you want with that money. To learn more, you can visit PMCjobs.org. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Chorjol.