Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oscar Mateo dreamed of being an artist, but after he contracted leukemia when he was 20, his life plans abruptly changed. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California must invest in competitive faculty pay, loan-repayment incentives and faculty diversity initiatives to tackle the ...

Since the pandemic, nursing in California has taken a hit. With an estimated the shortage of 36,000 licensed nurses, a decade long shortage that was exacerbated by COVID-19 and limited capacity at ...

Vaccine support specialist Joselyn Ascencio administers a monkeypox vaccine to nurse practitioner Dr. Johnny Jimenez during a press demonstration at UCSF Fresno’s COVID-19 Equity Project medical ...

Across California, health care costs continue to rise, but another crisis is threatening patient care: a growing shortage of registered nurses. Without a coordinated system that connects nursing ...

Lorena Burkett, a registered nurse at Emanuel Medical Center in Turlock, says the state’s nursing shortage is rooted in heavy workloads that dissuade young people from entering the field and drive ...

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As California faces a critical shortage of registered nurses, Samuel Merritt University (SMU), a leader in health science education for over a century, is taking ...

Nurse assistant Christina Torrez works on a patient’s chart at work at Doctors Medical Center in Modesto, Calif., on Tuesday, April 17, 2018. Andy Alfaro aalfaro@modbee.com We all valued the ...

Nearly 60% of California counties face nursing shortages. Nurses blame management-driven staffing crises and poor working conditions, while hospital administrators cite skyrocketing costs and federal ...

California is facing a serious nursing shortage, and our communities feel the strain every day. Fewer qualified, diverse nurses mean longer wait times, gaps in culturally competent care, and widening ...

Nursing programs across the state turn away thousands of qualified applicants, not because students lack interest, but because schools lack enough faculty to teach them. Faculty salaries lag far ...

TURLOCK — California, like much of the nation, is not producing enough nurses working at bedsides to meet the needs of an aging and diverse population, fueling a workforce crunch that risks ...