Health Beat New York
As New York faces a persistent nursing shortage, more than a dozen hospitals across the state, including three in the Bronx, are poised to receive a significant boost for their recruitment and retention efforts.
A $51 million grant program from the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, a private nonprofit, announced on Wednesday, will fund efforts to strengthen the state’s nursing workforce as New York braces for an estimated shortage of nearly 40,000 nurses by 2030. The funding will help hospitals apply for nursing accreditation programs, which hospital leaders say will improve nurses’ well-being, as well as patient care…
…The foundation launched the grant program following the publication of a 2024 report from the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the University of Albany’s School of Public Health that identified pervasive statewide shortages in registered nurses and licensed practical nurses, driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, a wave of retirements, a diminished pipeline of qualified workers, and the draw of better-paid opportunities outside healthcare.