The College of Nursing at University of Nebraska Medical Center opened its Center for Nursing Science yesterday in Omaha, Neb., to help alleviate the state's nursing shortage, according to an UNMC news release.
The $14 million center will remedy the college's problem of turning away hundreds of qualified nursing students each year. The college has had too few nursing faculty and a shortage of facility space, according to the release. The new center will expand the college's Omaha location space by 60 percent and will enable the college to enroll more students.
By 2020, a shortage of 3,800 registered nurses in Nebraska is expected, hitting rural areas the hardest, according to the release.
Omaha philanthropists Ruth and Bill Scott are the lead donors for the center. Students will begin classes in the new center in Jan. 2011, according to the release.
Read the UNMC release about the new Center for Nursing Science.
Read about other hospital expansion projects:
-Wyoming's Campbell County Memorial Hospital Begins $69M Expansion, Renovation
-Kansas' Girard Medical Center Opens $10M Expansion
-Wisconsin's Mercy Walworth Hospital and Medical Center to Triple in Size
The $14 million center will remedy the college's problem of turning away hundreds of qualified nursing students each year. The college has had too few nursing faculty and a shortage of facility space, according to the release. The new center will expand the college's Omaha location space by 60 percent and will enable the college to enroll more students.
By 2020, a shortage of 3,800 registered nurses in Nebraska is expected, hitting rural areas the hardest, according to the release.
Omaha philanthropists Ruth and Bill Scott are the lead donors for the center. Students will begin classes in the new center in Jan. 2011, according to the release.
Read the UNMC release about the new Center for Nursing Science.
Read about other hospital expansion projects:
-Wyoming's Campbell County Memorial Hospital Begins $69M Expansion, Renovation
-Kansas' Girard Medical Center Opens $10M Expansion
-Wisconsin's Mercy Walworth Hospital and Medical Center to Triple in Size