In mid-April 2020, as Covid-19 shutdowns and lockdowns were being put in place across the U.S., my grandmother’s health started to decline. With so many unknowns, the assisted living facility where ...

The Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation has awarded a transformative grant of up to $1.1 million to the Westchester Community ...

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When Ranyah Thabit came to Boston from Yemen, she wanted to find work that involved taking care of the elderly, but found it hard to make a connection until she enrolled in a program offered by Hub ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The need for nurses continues to grow in Chicago. To help bridge the gap caused by the nursing shortage, Northwestern Medicine launched a program where after four months, a person can ...

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On a Monday morning, Austin Community College students bustle around a classroom full of hospital beds. The students pull mock fluids from the high-tech manikins and practice taking vitals as a ...

Slidell Memorial Hospital and Ochsner Health partnered recently with Northshore Technical Community College and Tri-Parish Works to offer students a Certified Nursing Assistant program at no cost to ...

The island has 18 more certified nursing assistants following a three-month apprenticeship program provided by the University of Guam and the Guam Department of Labor. They are employees of Catholic ...

Nearly 1,300 certified nursing assistants have signed on and begun training under a Minnesota program aimed at building up the state’s pipeline of caregivers. Gov. Tim Walz and Higher Education ...