MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia healthcare system has partnered with a junior school on a program geared toward addressing the scarcity of nurses within the state.
Mon Well being System and West Virginia Junior Faculty signed a letter of intent on Monday to launch a nursing training program that can put college students on the college on an accelerated path to changing into nurses, officers mentioned throughout a signing ceremony.
Mon Well being nurses will function school and the scholars can have digital coursework in addition to studying by way of work on the hospital, what Mon Well being System President and CEO David Goldberg known as patient-side, The Dominion Publish reported.
This system plans to open enrollment in September and begin its top quality subsequent April.
The collaboration, Goldberg mentioned, will serve “to carry not solely one of the best nurses to patient-side by way of Mon Well being, however hold folks on this neighborhood, develop our personal, handle our personal neighbors, members of the family and mates, so we proceed to be one of the best well being care location in north-central West Virginia and enhance our well being care outcomes.”
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West Virginia Junior Faculty CEO Chad Callen mentioned nursing shortages are at close to disaster ranges in some areas of the state.
“Such challenges require daring considering and progressive, out-of-the-box approaches,” he mentioned.
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Winfield (W.Va.) 2025 tight end Toby Laughery grew up following the West Virginia football program so he was thrilled to receive an opportunity to play for the Mountaineers.
Laughery, 6-foot-3, 218-pounds, performed at the first one-day camp of the summer and his efforts caught the attention of tight ends coach Blaine Stewart.
“He said that I had a great camp and he really wants me to be a part of this team,” he said.
At the end of the event the in-state prospect received word that the Mountaineers were offering him a preferred walk-on opportunity from Stewart.
“I was in shock. West Virginia has been a dream of mine since I was a kid,” he said. “Being an in-state kid makes it ten times better.”
Stewart has been in contact with Laughery since he took an unofficial visit in the fall and he stopped by his school at the end of the evaluation period to invite him to camp. He is being targeted as a tight end and the coaching staff was impressed with his physicality, ability to catch in traffic and athleticism.
Laughery is no stranger to Morgantown as he’s been to several games in the past and has grown up a fan of the football program.
The plans for Laughery is to next make a camp stop at Marshall and then will head to Eastern Kentucky, Kent State, Appalachian State, Elon and Davidson. He also plans to head back to West Virginia for another look at the program in the fall.
Laughery still has a ways to go in his recruitment but the preferred walk-on offer from West Virginia is one that certainly has his attention at this stage of the process.
According to rankings released by PFF college football analyst Max Chadwick, the West Virginia Mountaineers have the 10th-best running back room in college football.
WVU had one of the best rushing attacks in FBS last season, with over 3,000 yards gained on the ground. Freshman running back Jahiem White lead the attack with 842 rushing yards, averaging 7.7 yards per carry on the season.
White, was followed by sophomore running back CJ Donaldson, who had 798 rushing yards. Donaldson added the second-most touchdowns on the ground with 11, trailing only quarterback Garrett Greene.
The thunder-and-lightning combination of Donaldson and White is a running back duo that may continue to be highly revered come the end of next season, with White only emerging midseason in 2023. They are joined in the backfield by Jaylen Anderson, a rising redshirt junior who’s added over 400 rushing yards and three touchdowns in his career at WVU and incoming freshman Traevon Dunbar, who rushed for over 3,000 yards his senior year, becoming one of South Carolina’s top running back prospects.
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