Posted on 08/25/2022 5:09:05 AM PDT by Silentgypsy
A state effort to ease Colorado’s dire shortage of health care workers will offer tuition-free training for several thousand students, providing a much-needed boost to hospitals and clinics.
The Care Forward Colorado Program will invest $26 million of federal COVID stimulus funding into the program for two years, guaranteeing free schooling for students interested in becoming certified nursing assistants, emergency medical technicians, pharmacy technicians, phlebotomy technicians, medical assistants or dental assistants.
The program, created through legislation supported by a bipartisan group of lawmakers during the last legislative session and signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis, has the potential to reach more than 4,000 students. Still, that’s far short of filling the workforce holes in hospitals and health systems: Colorado will have an estimated deficit of about 54,000 workers in lower-wage health care jobs by 2026, according to a 2021 report from Mercer, a human resources consulting company. But the new program is one way the state is working to close the workforce gap, particularly in rural regions.
(Excerpt) Read more at coloradosun.com ...
Remind me again how many medical professionals did the government fire/force to quit/force into early retirement or force into a new field of work due to unconstitutional jab mandate?
These shortages are entirely government / lieberal made.
Will they be teaching the classes in Spanish?
Or other illegal alien languages?
This is what happens when you displace Americans with illegal alien invaders who can't do the jobs.
The spot price of labor is set BY THE MARKET and follows the same supply/demand curve as ANY OTHER TRADED COMMODITY.
If you more of ‘X’, then offer more and you will get more of ‘X’.
True but communities full of illegal aliens on the public dole can’t afford more.
Wait, what? Explain how I should care what an illegal can and cannot afford again?
Because our taxes are going to Colorado to pay health care students' tuition for them to work in subsidized health care companies to care for illegal aliens.
I can’t read this stupid article because I don’t have an account.
Raise wages. That is the only way to close a “workforce gap”.
The program, created through legislation.
Well there’s the problem fix it.
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