Here are twenty-four organizations launching or expanding nursing programs:
- Washington State Community College in Marietta, Ohio, was approved to launch its bachelor's in nursing program.
- Overland Park, Kan.-based HCA Midwest Health is investing $34.5 million in a new 78,000-square-foot building to increase Kansas City, Mo.-based Research College of Nursing's enrollment capacity.
- Windham-based Eastern Connecticut State University received a $1.2 million grant to add a bachelor's in nursing program.
- Huntington Beach, Calif.-based Golden West College was approved to accept 200 more students each year.
- SUNY Plattsburgh renovated its Damianos Nursing Skills Lab and curriculum.
- University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is launching an accelerated bachelor's in nursing degree program.
- Washington (Pa.) Health System created a residency program to train nurses during their last year of school.
- The Blinn College District and College Station-based Texas A&M University partnered on associates-to-bachelor's pipeline for nursing degrees.
- Fort Worth-based University of North Texas Health Science Center is opening a nursing college.
- After more than a year of investigation into the quality and integrity of Phoenix-based Aspen University's nursing program, it is one vote away from being shut down by the Arizona State Board of Nursing.
- UNC Greensboro (N.C.) is moving its nursing PhD program online with the intent of making it more convenient for working nurses.
- New York-based Clinton Community College and SUNY Plattsburgh created an integrated partnership that lets students graduate with a bachelor's degree and workforce experience.
- University of Central Florida in Orlando plans to construct a 90,000-square-foot building that will help the university expand its nursing program.
- Florida State College at Jacksonville and Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic partnered to create a dedicated education unit that will train students working toward an associate's degree in nursing.
- The University of Arkansas in Fayetteville is offering a dual-degree program with a doctor of nursing practice and an executive master of business administration.
- University of Central Florida in Orlando plans to construct a 90,000-square-foot building that will help the university expand its nursing program.
- Cleveland Clinic partnered with local schools to offer the Aspire Nurse Scholars Programs, which aims to diversify the nursing population.
- Monroe County (Mich.) Community College is offering a five-week certified nurse aide course beginning March 15.
- A bill passed in Oregon in 2019 may soon make it so community colleges can offer four-year traditional baccalaureate degrees, including a bachelor of science in nursing.
- Lexington Medical Center plans to build a 52,000-square-foot nursing simulation center and teaching facility at its campus in West Columbia, S.C.
- West Columbia, S.C.-based Lexington Medical Center and the University of South Carolina are expanding their nurse program with a hospital campus built to train nurses.
- Providence, R.I.-based Johnson & Wales University is launching an accelerated 16-month nursing program.
- Cedarville (Ohio) University's school of nursing will launch a new doctor of nursing practice online degree program this fall.
- The Arizona Department of Health Services gave Tempe-based Arizona State University $5.5 million to put toward its nursing program.