San Mateo, Calif.-based Gurnick Academy of Medical Arts opened a campus in Sacramento, Calif., to train medical assistants, ultrasound, X-ray and MRI technnologists and fill the area shortage of people in those professions, reports The Sacramento Bee.
Here are three things to know.
1. Classes are slated to begin at the Gurnick's Sacramento campus in July, according to the report. Students will be able to receive certificates and two-year associate degrees.
2. Barry Broome, president and CEO of the Greater Sacramento Economic Council, told The Sacramento Bee the goal of the campus is to help train students in those roles to fill the hundreds of open positions at health systems in the Sacramento area.
"We're just on the cusp of being one of the top healthcare markets in the country, but there's a skills gap. We have 2,000 [healthcare] jobs [in the area] that aren't filled because they don't have the trained talent," he said.
3. Gurnick hopes to have up to 30 X-ray technologists, 20 ultrasound or MRI technologists and 20 medical assistants enrolled at the Sacramento campus when classes begin there this summer, according to the report.
Read the full report here.