HHS allocates $159M for healthcare workforce training
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary awarded $159.1 million in healthcare workforce training program grants to train nurses and geriatric specialists in order to improve the performance and recruitment of under-represented minority students.
The grants will fund programs in nursing workforce development, interdisciplinary geriatric education and training programs, and Centers of Excellence programs for underrepresented minority students, according to HHS.
Nursing Workforce Development programs will receive $106 million in grants to support all levels of nursing education:
Eighty-five awards totaling $29.5 million will fund three geriatric education and training programs at accredited health professions schools:
Eighteen awards totaling $23.6 million were announced to support Centers of Excellence programs that are designed to improve the recruitment and performance of under-represented minority students preparing for health professions careers.
The program supports activities to develop an educational pipeline to enhance academic performance of underrepresented minority students, support underrepresented minority faculty development, facilitate research on health issues particularly affecting under-represented minority groups, and provide training to students at community-based health facilities for providing health services to under-represented minority individuals.
The award recipients are schools of allopathic medicine, osteopathic medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and allied health, including designated historically black colleges and universities; graduate programs in behavioral health; and other public and nonprofit health or educational organizations.
State by state grant award information is available here: http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2010pres/08/state_charts.html.
The grants will fund programs in nursing workforce development, interdisciplinary geriatric education and training programs, and Centers of Excellence programs for underrepresented minority students, according to HHS.
Nursing Workforce Development programs will receive $106 million in grants to support all levels of nursing education:
- $42 million will support 153 infrastructure grants to increase advanced education to train nurses as primary care providers and/or nursing faculty.
- $16 million will support 351 schools of nursing and individuals requiring advanced education to become nurse specialists.
- $1.3 million will fund 83 nurse anesthetist training programs to pay tuition, books, fees and a living stipend for RNs who have completed at least 12 months in a master’s or doctoral nurse anesthesia program.
- 108 infrastructure grants totaling $29.9 million to expand the capacity of the nursing pipeline, promote career mobility for individuals in nursing, prepare more nurses at the baccalaureate level, and provide continuing education training to enhance the quality of patient care.
- $14.3 million in 44 grants for nursing workforce diversity, to increase nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, including racial and ethnic minorities underrepresented among RNs.
- $2.5 million to support nine grants for faculty development projects in information and other technologies to expand the capacity of collegiate schools of nursing to educate students for 21 Century healthcare.
Eighty-five awards totaling $29.5 million will fund three geriatric education and training programs at accredited health professions schools:
- $17.2 million for Geriatric Education Centers will support 45 awards to improve training of health professionals in geriatrics, develop curricula relating to treating health problems of the elderly, and support faculty training and continuing education for health professionals in geriatric care.
- $8.1 million for 13 grants to geriatric training projects that will train health professionals who plan to teach geriatric medicine, geriatric dentistry, or geriatric behavioral or mental health.
- $4.2 million to supports 27 Comprehensive Geriatric Education Program grants for projects to train and educate individuals in providing geriatric care for the elderly, including curriculum development, faculty training and continuing education for geriatric providers.
Eighteen awards totaling $23.6 million were announced to support Centers of Excellence programs that are designed to improve the recruitment and performance of under-represented minority students preparing for health professions careers.
The program supports activities to develop an educational pipeline to enhance academic performance of underrepresented minority students, support underrepresented minority faculty development, facilitate research on health issues particularly affecting under-represented minority groups, and provide training to students at community-based health facilities for providing health services to under-represented minority individuals.
The award recipients are schools of allopathic medicine, osteopathic medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and allied health, including designated historically black colleges and universities; graduate programs in behavioral health; and other public and nonprofit health or educational organizations.
State by state grant award information is available here: http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2010pres/08/state_charts.html.