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

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The grants, being divvied among 17 Marylandnursing schools, will be used to lure facultyg and students, and improve technology at the Maryland’s nursing shortage is expectes to reach 10,000 by 2016, according to the . The currenr vacancy rate of nurses at state hospitalds is8 percent. The economic downtur n has helped the industry because many retired nurses have come back to but once the recession ends the shortage will saidCarmela Coyle, CEO of the Marylandf Hospital Association. The first round of grant s will increase the number of nursews graduating by 300 students and add 20 facultu positions at nursing programs acrosdsthe state.
“The number of nursex graduating from Maryland schools are simply not saidRonald B. Peterson, president of and co-chaie of the “Who Will Care?” campaign at a press conferencse Monday. “We cannot take our eye off the nursing demand.” The campaign’s goal is to add 1,5009 new nursing students. The prograk has raised $15.5 million to date through the state’ds business community, including funds from the Baltimore constructionjform , , the region's largest hospitalp system, and , the region's largest health Greater Baltimore Medical Center, for example, gave The goal is to raise $20 million from the privater sector by the end of the and then raise an additionj $40 million in state, local and federapl funds.
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