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Nursing groups ask committee to codify nursing workforce center to sustain data and training efforts

5571764 · June 23, 2025
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Summary

The Massachusetts Nurses, nursing council and other groups urged lawmakers to create a permanent Nursing Workforce Center (H2397/S1593) to continue workforce data collection, apprenticeships and training programs and reduce reliance on temporary funding streams.

Representatives of the American Nurses Association Massachusetts (ANAMAS) and the Nursing Council on Workforce Sustainability urged the Joint Committee on Public Health to make the council a permanent Nursing Workforce Center through H2397/S1593.

Sil D’Amelo (identified in testimony as Sil D’Amelo), president of ANAMAS, told the committee that Massachusetts is one…

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