Mechanicsburg-based Vibra Healthcare has launched Vibra Travels as a travel nursing and health care staffing business. “We’ve created a custom, flexible approach and we can quickly place quality talent wherever support is most needed,” Amy Slivinski, vice president of Vibra Travels, said in a release. Vibra Travels originated last year as an internal service, recruiting ...
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Lebanon County Career & Technology Center seeks LPN students
The Lebanon County Career and Technology Center’s licensed practical nursing program is looking for students.
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Lebanon Valley College names first-ever nursing chair
Lebanon Valley College announced Tuesday that Colleen Marshall will chair the college’s new nursing program, which welcomes its first class this fall.
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Homeland Center’s new CNA Academy Program receives grant
The Homeland Center in Harrisburg has received $75,000 from the Wilmington, Delaware-based WSFS Cares Foundation to support its Certified Nursing Assistant Academy Program.
Read More »Lancaster sim center provides safe practice for area health care students
Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences has been a leader in the simulation-based education space, having participated as one of 10 facilities across the country chosen by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing for a landmark simulation study in 2011.
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Lebanon Valley College to break ground on new building
Lebanon Valley College will break ground Friday on its new Nursing & Interdisciplinary Health Education Facility.
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LeadingAge PA hires new president, CEO
Pennsylvania senior housing, health care and community services trade association, LeadingAge PA, has appointed a new president and CEO.
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UPMC and Harrisburg University to open new Harrisburg-based nursing school
UPMC is set to bring its Pittsburgh-based UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing to Harrisburg through a partnership with Harrisburg University.
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WellSpan introduces new floating nurse program
A floating nurse program first used at WellSpan York Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic is now being used across WellSpan Health’s midstate hospitals.
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York College expanding online learning for nursing professionals
York College of Pennsylvania, a private, non-profit college located in South Central Pennsylvania, has announced the expansion of its online graduate programs to help meet growing demand in fields such as nursing and healthcare analytics.
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Penn State Health hires former Tower Health VP to help lead Lancaster Medical Center
Reading-based Tower Health's former vice president for nursing operations joins Penn State Health as the new chief nursing officer for the Hershey-based health system’s upcoming Lancaster Medical Center on Jan. 17.
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BAYADA Home Health Care awarded grant to expand nurse apprentice program
Governor Tom Wolf today announced a $297,000 grant to expand BAYADA Home Health Care’s nurse residency apprenticeship program to help adults and children who need home health care in Pennsylvania.
Read More »She’s nursing no more, but it’s a bittersweet milestone
I nursed Coraline until she was two years and seven months old. I never planned to go so long, but I guess I am much more of a hippie parent than I even realized.
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Penn State Health to launch at-home services through partnership with Highmark and Contessa
Penn State Health plans to launch an at-home health care service that includes hospital and skilled nursing care through a partnership with Highmark Health and Nashville-based high-acuity home care company Contessa.
Read More »As the nursing shortage worsens, health systems are raising pay, but the problem goes deeper than that
The nursing shortage in Pennsylvania -- and across the country -- isn’t new, it’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic, according to the head of the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association in Harrisburg.
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