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Healthcare Purchasing News, May, 2004
Labor Secretary Elaine Chao awarded two grants totaling $5.4 million to fund nurse training programs, the latest grants to be awarded under the Labor Department's $24.4 million initiative to help train healthcare workers. The new awards are a $4 million grant to HCA to address shortages in critical nursing disciplines in Texas and Florida, and a $1.4 million grant to Florida International University School of Nursing to retrain 100 unemployed and underemployed foreign educated physicians to become registered nurses in the U.S.
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The grants are part of the administration's High Growth Job Training Initiative.
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