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Vermont State Colleges report rising health-program enrollment, evaluate dental-therapy plan
Summary
Vermont State Colleges leaders told the Senate Health and Welfare Committee that nursing and allied-health enrollments and graduations have grown after recent state investments; the system is assessing a dental-therapy program and highlighted scholarship and forgivable-loan supports.
The chancellor of the Vermont State Colleges system (name not stated on the record) told the Senate Health and Welfare Committee that state investment has increased enrollment and completion in health-related programs and that the system is focusing on workforce pipelines across nursing, dental hygiene and allied health.
Why it matters: Committee members were presented data the colleges say show growth in health-care training that directly feeds local hospitals and clinics; the colleges asked the committee to sustain support for scholarship and workforce programs that helped increase enrollments.
Chancellor (on the record, name not provided) said the system educated 328 new nurses for Vermont and that graduation rates rose after the legislature funded critical-occupation scholarships. “We have educated 328 new nurses for Vermont,” the chancellor told the committee, adding that NCLEX pass rates for the system’s…
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