28 healthcare facilities statewide will receive $22.5 million in awards during the next year for training – a part of the Governor’s $10 billion multi-year investment in healthcare – to help rebuild and grow the healthcare workforce and help strengthen the healthcare system. The Increasing Training Capacity in Statewide Healthcare Facilities awards were issued by the State Health Department’s Office of Healthcare Workforce Innovation, to increase training in the healthcare workforce.
In 2022, Governor Kathy Hochul announced a $10 billion multi-year investment in healthcare, the largest in State history, to rebuild and grow the healthcare workforce and strengthen the healthcare system. The need to rebuild and grow the healthcare workforce with programs designed to improve the career pipeline, expand access to healthcare training and education, recruit care workers to underserved areas, and strengthen home care was a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the continuing and existing health care professional shortages in New York State.
28 contracts have been awarded to 13 hospitals and 15 nursing homes and will provide up to $1 million per year for two years to each healthcare facility. Awardees may use their funding to cover various eligible expenses, such as costs related to developing training programs and curriculum and compensating staff attending training. Awardees include:
- Samaritan Hospital
- Montefiore Medical Center
- Fort Hudson Nursing Center, Inc.
- Upstate Medical University
- Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation
- St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center
- Auburn Community Hospital
- Orleans Community Health, Medina Memorial Hospital
- St. Barnabas Hospital
- The Friendly Home
- BronxCare Health System
- Jamaica Hospital Medical Center
- The Church Home of the Protestant
- Episcopal Church
- Gurwin Healthcare System
- Schofield Residence
- The Plaza Rehab & Nursing Center
- Sisters of Charity Hospital
- We Care
- Flushing Hospital Medical Center
- King Street Rehab
- Highlands at Brighton
- Loretto Health & Rehabilitation
- Monroe Community Hospital
- Ira Davenport Memorial Hospital SNF
- Chemung County Nursing Facility
- Wayne Health Care
- Rochester General Hospital
- Cayuga Health System
“With the largest ever multi-year investment in health care, we will retain, rebuild and grow our health care workforce and ensure we deliver the highest quality health care for New Yorkers,” Governor Hochul said. “The health of every New Yorker depends on a strong, stable and equitable health care system, and health care workers are its very foundation.”
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