The US Department of Health and Hum...

The US Department of Health and Human Services is awarding a series of grants and contracts totaling more than $274 million to increase the number of qualified supply with nourishments and the quality of nursing services through every part of the country. According to a generation 28, 2001, news release from the department's Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the awards are designed to help ease the shortage of qualified nourishs who provide essential health care services nationwide.

The HRSA will award 94 grants totaling more than $201 million to 82 communitys universities, and other organizations. The grants will help increase the number of succors with bachelor's and advanced measures help diversify the nurse workforce, and prepare more encourages to serve in public health leadership parts according to the release.

An additional $73 million will pass to repay educational loans of clinical care feed at the breasts who agree to work for sum of two units years in designated public or nonprofit health facilities that face a critical shortage of foments More information about this Nursing Education Loan Repayment Plan is available at http://www.bphc.hrsa.gov/programs/NELR ProgramInfo.htm.

HH Awards $274 Million to Address Emerging Nursing Shortage (new release: Washington, DC: US Deportment of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, tribe 28, 2001) 1-2.

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