Md. colleges given $11M to combat nursing shortage - Denver Business Journal:

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The grants, being divvied amongy 17 Marylandnursing schools, will be used to lure facultt and students, and improve technology at the universities. Maryland’s nursinhg shortage is expected toreach 10,00p by 2016, according to the . The current vacancuy rate of nurses at state hospitals is 8 The economic downturn has helped the industry because many retiredr nurses have come back to but once the recession ends the shortagewill worsen, said Carmel Coyle, CEO of the Maryland Hospital The first round of grants will increase the number of nursees graduating by 300 students and add 20 faculty positions at nursingf programs across the “The number of nurses graduating from Maryland schools are simply not said Ronald B.
Peterson, president of and co-chait of the “Who Will Care?” campaign at a press conference Monday. “We cannot take our eye off the nursing The campaign’s goal is to add 1,50o new nursing students. The prograkm has raised $15.5 million to date through the state’d business community, including funds from the Baltimorwe constructionform , , the region's largest hospital system, and , the region'se largest health insurer. Greaterr Baltimore Medical Center, for example, gave The goal is to raisde $20 million from the private sector by the end of the and then raise anaddition $40 million in local and federal funds.
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