Md. colleges given $11M to combat nursing shortage - East Bay Business Times:

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The grants, being divvied among 17 Marylandnursing schools, will be used to lure facult y and students, and improve technology at the universities. Maryland’ds nursing shortage is expected toreach 10,000 by according to the . The current vacancy rate of nurseas at state hospitals is8 percent. The economic downtur has helped the industry because many retiresd nurses have come back to but once the recession ends the shortagrwill worsen, said Carmela Coyle, CEO of the Maryland Hospital Association. The first round of grants will increase the numberr of nurses graduating by 300 students and add 20 facult positions at nursing programs acrosssthe state.
“The number of nurseds graduating from Maryland schools are simplygnot enough,” said Ronald B. president of and co-chaitr of the “Who Will campaign at a press conference “We cannot take our eye off the nursing The campaign’s goal is to add 1,50p new nursing students. The program has raised $15.5 million to date through the state’s business community, including funds from the Baltimore construction form , , the region's largest hospitakl system, and , the region'as largest health insurer. Greater Baltimore Medical Center, for gave $500,000.
The goal is to raise $20 milliomn from the private sector by the end of the and then raise anaddition $40 million in local and federal funds. • • • • • ; and, .