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Durbin Supports $1-Billion for National Health Service Corps

The healthcare workforce is being stressed and severe shortages could be on the way.

 

Data says more than half of the 195,000 registered nurses in Illinois are older than 55 and a quarter expect to retire in the next 5 years. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin recently held a Rural Health Summit and said he heard loud and clear that more needs to be done to train new nurses and keep the ones we already have on the job.

 

 

Durbin says that $1 billion in funding he’s proposing for the National Health Service Corps could help to train and retain nurses.

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