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Indiana Behavioral Health Commission recommends expanding on previous investment, building Indiana's workforce and addressing care for vulnerable populations.

The Indiana Hospital Association predicts the state needs 5,000 more nurses by 2031. Colleges would need to graduate about 1,300 nurses every year to meet the future demand. They're getting to work.

Ivy Tech’s new lab grows the Marchant School of Nursing’s training facilities and reunites the program with the main campus building.

Nearly 450 new undergraduate students enrolled this year. It's a step in the right direction for solving Indiana’s nursing shortage.

A Chicago-based medical consulting firm found the average travel nurse in the United States makes $132 per hour, which is more than double the 2019 average.

Beginning this fall, new faculty and staff will be hired and enrollment for 2023 will begin. The funding will also help first-year students who serve as technicians or certified nursing assistants.

A handful of states – including Minnesota and Massachusetts – have passed laws putting wage caps on how much staffing agencies can pay nurses. But in Indiana, lawmakers haven’t discussed any solutions.

Hospital officials and health care organizations supporting the proposal have told legislators that some 4,000 nursing jobs are unfilled across the state in a shortage exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic.