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Governor Jay Nixon (D).
Today Governor Jay Nixon (D) visited the School of Nursing at the University of Missouri-Kansas City for the launch of Caring for Missourians, a new program that “will train more than nine hundred additional Missouri students to enter high-demand, critical-need health care fields.”
The program was established by the Missouri General Assembly in the Fiscal Year 2010 budget – providing forty million dollars to help increase health care training capacity in Missouri colleges.
Governor Nixon speaks with nursing students at a remote site and in a classroom at the UMKC School of Nursing.
Governor Nixon greets individuals in the School of Nursing on his way to the press conference.
“Individual institutions will receive the following appropriations through ‘Caring for Missourians'” (from the office of Governor Jay Nixon):
Linn State Technical College – $154,151
Harris-Stowe State University – $513,870
Lincoln University – $807,161
Missouri Southern State University – $1,100,871
Missouri State University – $2,198,607
Missouri Western State University – $847,724
Northwest Missouri State University – $527,319
Southeast Missouri State University – $1,172,210
Truman State University – $756,339
University of Central Missouri – $1,216,361
University of Missouri – Columbia – $9,422,307
University of Missouri – Kansas City – $11,814,460
Missouri University of Science & Technology – $513,869
University of Missouri – St. Louis – $2,527,563
Crowder College – $135,866
East Central College – $318,765
Jefferson College – $436,101
Metropolitan Community Colleges – $1,017,134
Mineral Area College – $339,666
Moberly Area Community College – $372,266
North Central Missouri College – $304,333
Ozarks Technical Community College – $471,224
St. Louis Community College – $1,490,447
St. Charles Community College – $768,177
State Fair Community College – $407,599
Three Rivers Community College – $365,610Total – $40,000,000
State Senator Jolie Justus (D-10)(second from left)
The Kansas City ABC affiliate had a crew in attendance at the press conference.