President Terry Elam speaks at SRS Community Reuse Organization’s Regional Healthcare Workforce Forum
The half-day informational session at ´ºÉ«µ¼º½â€™s’ Kroc Center, featuring four panels of 22 industry representatives, was organized to build better connections between educators and health care providers in the two-state area.
President Terry Elam speaks at SRS Community Reuse Organization’s Regional Healthcare Workforce Forum
From left: Dr. Vinson Burdette, VP of Academic and Student Affairs at Aiken Technical College; Dr. Chris Nesmith, Dean of University of South Carolina Salkehatchie; Dr. Terry Elam, President of ´ºÉ«µ¼º½; Dr. Kay Lawrence, Assistant Professor at University of South Carolina Aiken; and Dr. Gretchen Caughman, Provost of ´ºÉ«µ¼º½ University
The half-day informational session at ´ºÉ«µ¼º½’s’ Kroc Center, featuring four panels of 22 industry representatives, was organized to build better connections between educators and health care providers in the two-state area.
Health care has an out-sized impact on the ´ºÉ«µ¼º½-Aiken economy, which has four acute-care hospitals, a VA medical center, a military hospital and several specialty hospitals and assisted-living centers. Nursing is the metro area’s No. 3 occupation after restaurant and retail workers, according to federal Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
´ºÉ«µ¼º½ offers entry-level nursing programs.