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Porter and Chester Institute says Enfield campus teach-out completed; board notes notification lapse
Summary
Porter and Chester Institute told the Board of Examiners for Nursing that it stopped enrolling students at the Enfield campus in 2021 and taught out roughly 70 students by October 2024; PCI apologized for an administrative oversight in formally notifying the Department of Public Health and the board.
Porter and Chester Institute representatives told Connecticut’s Board of Examiners for Nursing on Dec. 18 that the Enfield campus has completed a teach-out begun during the COVID period and that no students remain enrolled.
Sherry Greifsue, PCI’s director of nursing, outlined a timeline saying the school ceased day enrollments in April 2021 and evening enrollments in October 2021 and then worked with students and the Office of Higher Education on a phased teach-out. She said the institution “did everything we could to do the right thing for the students” and that the final two students graduated in October 2024 and subsequently passed their licensure exams.
Julie Trasky, who helped compile student results, reported that 55 students from the day program and 27 from the evening program sat for licensing boards in 2023–24. She said the day cohort had a 91% pass rate (51 passed) and the evening cohort had about a 79% pass rate (21 passed), and that in total about 70 students were taught out during the closure.
Board members pressed PCI on notice and documentation. Member Mary Dieitman said she and others were “not informed of this closure” by formal letter; PCI acknowledged that while the plan and references to the closure appeared across meeting materials and a five‑year plan, the specific formal letter to the board was an administrative oversight. PCI offered to provide the board with the letters, student notification samples and other documentation it used during the teach-out.
Attorney Alina Bricklin Goldstein reminded the board that regulations expect a written closure plan and timetable when a program closes, but advised that in this case the board has no further required regulatory action. Chair Gina Reiners noted the school’s lease ends in January 2025 and that copies of student records are being routed to the corporate office.
The board treated the presentation as informational (no vote). Members thanked PCI for completing an apparently orderly teach-out while stressing the importance of formal notification to DPH and the board in future closures.
