HHS Providing $2.3M to Train Veterans for Civilian Healthcare Jobs

HHS has announced it will devote $2.3 million to train veterans interested in becoming primary care physician assistants.

"These grants will help ensure veterans who served our country can use their medical training and get good jobs serving patients," HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement.

Twelve medical programs in ten states received five-year grants to fund the training of veterans seeking to work in primary care settings.

Here are the institutions that received grants:
  • Bay Path College in Longmeadow, Mass.
  • Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
  • Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Va.
  • Georgia Health Sciences University Research Institute in Augusta, Ga.
  • Midwestern University in Flagstaff, Ariz.
  • Northern Arizona University in Glendale, Ariz.
  • Pacific University in Forest Grove, Ore.
  • University of Nebraska in Omaha.
  • University of North Dakota in Grand Forks.
  • University of South Alabama in Mobile.
  • University of Texas Health Science Center of San Antonio.
  • University of Washington in Seattle.

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