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Federal grant addresses healthcare worker shortages

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, March 19, 2004

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Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao has announced a $24 million initiative to boost the country's healthcare workforce. According to the Associated Press State and Local Wire, the President's High Growth Job Training program awarded its first grants of $3 million to The Johns Hopkins Health System and $1.5 million to the state of Maryland. The Johns Hopkins Health System grant will fund training for about 500 current workers to provide GED and diploma preparation. The state's grant will be used to create scholarships for nurses to become nursing teachers and to train and hire people to replace the nurses leaving to pursue credentials to teach at the college level. Officials hope the money will help to stimulate a segment of the economy that is predicted to grow at a rate of 28 percent by 2012.

Source: 2004 Associated Press
 



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