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Our Story

America’s largest kind of healthcare educator

Every community needs more healthcare professionals. We exist to help meet that need — at scale.

Our approach

Opening doors at every stage

America faces a workforce shortage across healthcare, veterinary medicine and beyond. We built a different model to close the gap.

  • Expanding access

    We make quality education accessible to working adults and career-changers that conventional education misses.

  • Practice-ready graduates

    Our graduates enter the workforce clinically skilled and ready to contribute from day one.

  • Connecting students to careers

    We partner directly with employers to build programs that lead to jobs after graduation.

  • Serving communities that need care most

    We place graduates in underserved communities, closer to the people who know them best.

Every year, our institutions graduate thousands of healthcare professionals — more than any other educator in America. We’re unlocking talent at scale, through a model built for how people actually live and work.

Dana Whitfield

Chief Executive Officer, Covista

Our name

Covista (pronounced co-vis-tah) blends two ideas: “co” for community, collaboration and partnership, and “vista” for vision and what lies ahead. Together, it points to a shared vision of the future.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Covista is a healthcare education company built to expand access to healthcare careers and grow the workforce the country needs.

Colleagues join a purpose-driven culture with room to grow — combining strong performance with meaningful impact.

We design programs around working adults and career-changers, pairing flexible access with practice-ready outcomes.

Curious what this looks like in practice?

See how these commitments show up in the communities we serve.

physician and patient

Meet our alumni

Discover the nurses, physicians, mental health counselors and veterinarians who graduated from our five institutions and are now transforming healthcare in their communities—from frontline providers to C-suite executives shaping the future of care. Total alumni is currently at 400K and growing!