Md. colleges given $11M to combat nursing shortage - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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The grants, being divvied among 17 Maryland nursing will be used to lure facultyand students, and improved technology at the universities. Maryland’s nursing shortage is expected toreach 10,000 by 2016, according to the . The currenrt vacancy rate of nurses at state hospitals is8 percent. The economiv downturn has helped the industrg because many retired nurses have come back to but once the recession ends the shortag ewill worsen, said Carmela Coyle, CEO of the Maryland Hospital The first round of grantzs will increase the number of nurses graduatinhg by 300 students and add 20 faculty positionsa at nursing programs across the “The number of nurses graduating from Maryland schools are simplyh not enough,” said Ronald B.
Peterson, presidentt of and co-chair of the “Who Will Care?” campaigj at a press conference Monday. “Wd cannot take our eye off the nursing demand.” The campaign’s goal is to add 1,500 new nursingb students. The program has raised $15.5 million to date through the state’s business including funds from the Baltimore constructionform , , the region'sz largest hospital system, and , the region'zs largest health insurer. Greater Baltimore Medicap Center, for example, gave $500,000. The goal is to raise $20 milliomn from the private sector by the end of the and then raise anadditionn $40 million in state, local and federal funds.
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