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Hospitals give $1 million to educate nurses

Ambulatory Safety Monitor, May 20, 2004

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Three South Carolina hospitals will donate $1 million over the next three years to increase nursing education at the University of South Carolina and Midlands Technical College.

The donations will help add two faculty members at the USC nursing school and will allow 16 extra nurses to graduate each year. The college graduates 96 nurses per year.

South Carolina had 5,000 fewer nurses than it needed in 2003. That number could increase to 15,000 in 2015, according to The State of Columbia.



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