Hazleton, community college receive $1 million grant for downtown nursing expansion
A state grant will support expanded nursing and other educational programming by Luzerne County Community College in downtown Hazleton.
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Parkview Logansport Hospital reports more than $15 million in first-year investment
One year after joining Parkview Health, the 83-bed Logansport hospital says it has invested more than $15 million and maintained full-service operations.
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South Dakota begins five-year rural-health transformation project
The South Dakota Department of Health is launching a statewide effort for rural and frontier communities, with work focused on care access, staffing, technology and data-sharing through fiscal year 2030.
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Roanoke-Chowan Community College gets $1 million grant for Ahoskie allied-health expansion
Roanoke-Chowan Community College says a $1 million Golden LEAF Foundation grant will fund equipment, installation and professional development for an allied-health training expansion on its Ahoskie campus.
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Montana begins Medicaid work requirements as budget pressure cancels provider raise
Montana has begun rolling out community-engagement requirements for some Medicaid Expansion adults while canceling a planned 3% provider-rate increase because of a human-services budget shortfall.
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Colorado forecast warns of shrinking labor force and weakening housing market
A June forecast from Colorado’s Legislative Council reports a 1.5% year-over-year decline in the labor force and a more than 7% drop in average single-family home prices.
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Connecticut payroll jobs hit record high as unemployment rises to 5.2%
Connecticut reached a record 1,726,500 payroll jobs in June, even as the unemployment rate climbed from 4.3% in December to 5.2%.
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Utah’s rural health workforce grant deadline passed; awards remain pending
Utah’s RISE 2.5 application deadline passed Tuesday for a program offering up to $20 million in first-year workforce funding, but no intermediary grantees or facility-level awards had been announced as of Wednesday.
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Ann Arbor U-M nurses ratify three-year agreement after strike vote plan
More than 7,200 U-M Health nurses and related clinical staff ratified a three-year agreement after a planned strike-authorization vote was no longer needed.