Georgia: Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare and Mercer University have formed a partnership that will create several joint initiatives, including nursing, pharmacy, research and other medical and allied health education programs as part of a Center for Health and Learning.(State News)(Brief Article)

Legislative Network for Nurses, June, 2005

Georgia: Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare and Mercer University have formed a partnership that will create several joint initiatives, including nursing, pharmacy, research and other medical and allied health education programs as part of a Center for Health and Learning. One of the first initiatives will be a collaborative nursing partnership designed to help recruit, educate and ultimately place more nurses at Piedmont and in the community at large.

Georgia is expected to need 80,000 nurses by 2020 to meet the state's health care needs. Current projections estimate there will be only 48,000 nurses, 40 percent below what will be needed. The partnership will include efforts to increase the number of nursing graduates, an enhanced nursing clinical practice at...

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