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11/06/07
The Maryland Hospital Association unveiled a new plan to alleviate the state's nursing shortage - a move that would cost millions of dollars and create hundreds of nursing faculty positions. Find Us On Facebook
The organization worked with hospitals and colleges around the state to address the nursing vacancy rate, which was 13 percent for the past two years and is growing. Without any changes, officials said, the state will be short 10,000 nurses by 2016.
The plan, which would cost $34 million in the first year, would increase the number of first-year nursing students by 1,800 beginning in 2009. An additional 360 nursing faculty members would...
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