UVA Health program builds nurse workforce

An American Hospital Association podcast explores UVA’s Heath “Earn While You Learn” program. Wendy Horton, PharmD, CEO of UVA Health, and Beth Mehring, the program manager, explain how the program builds and retains UVA Health’s nursing workforce by enabling community members to work at the hospital while they pursue their certified nursing assistant degrees. They also discuss how their approach to sustaining the nursing workforce can provide solutions for hospitals.