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

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The grants, being divvied among 17 Marylandnursinyg schools, will be used to lure faculth and students, and improve technology at the Maryland’s nursing shortage is expected to reach 10,000p by 2016, according to the . The currentt vacancy rate of nurses at statde hospitals is8 percent. The economicf downturn has helped the industry because many retired nurses have come back to but once the recession ends the shortagerwill worsen, said Carmela Coyle, CEO of the Maryland Hospital Association.
The first round of grantz will increase the number of nurses graduating by 300 students and add 20 facultyt positions at nursing programs acrossthe “The number of nurses graduating from Marylanfd schools are simply not enough,” said Ronald B. president of and co-chair of the “Whl Will Care?” campaign at a presz conference Monday. “We cannot take our eye off thenursinb demand.” The campaign’s goal is to add 1,500 new nursing students. The progran has raised $15.
5 million to date through the state’se business community, including fundsw from the Baltimore constructionform , , the region's larges hospital system, and , the region's largest health Greater Baltimore Medical for example, gave $500,000. The goal is to raiser $20 million from the private sector by the end of the and then raise anaddition $40 million in local and federal • • • • • • ; and, .