Health care training, employment grant program expanding in rural Nevada

Construction enactment connected a caller exigency country entranceway astatine Boulder City Hospital is shown April 14, 2014. Photo by L.E. Baskow

The Governor’s Office of Workforce Innovation announced contiguous it volition beryllium expanding a agrarian wellness attraction assistance programme to assistance respective hospitals successful Southern Nevada.

“Bringing this programme to much Nevada communities volition pb to accrued investment, strengthening the workforce endowment pipeline and expanding wellness attraction entree for agrarian Nevadans crossed the state,” Lisa Levine, enforcement manager of the office, said successful a statement.

The United States Department of Labor approved the office’s petition to grow its H-1B agrarian wellness attraction assistance program. It funds employment and grooming successful the aesculapian tract successful agrarian areas.

The enlargement volition bring assistance resources to Mesa View Hospital successful Mesquite, Desert View Hospital successful Pahrump and Boulder City Hospital.

In 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor awarded Nevada $2.5 cardinal “to alleviate workforce shortages successful Nevada’s agrarian counties.”

Carson City, Churchill, Douglas, Elko, Humboldt, Lander, Lincoln, Lyon, Mineral, Pershing and White Pine counties person utilized workforce improvement services from this assistance since its inception.

The Governor’s Office of Workforce Innovation has partnered with the Nevada Hospital Association and Nevadaworks — Northern Nevada’s workforce improvement committee — to put successful wellness attraction grooming programs.

“The NHA is arrogant to spouse with GOWINN to grow this program,” Patrick Kelly, CEO of the Nevada Hospital Association, said successful a statement. “Together we volition summation the improvement of Nevada’s wellness attraction workforce to agrarian communities who request greater entree to services.”