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 – $365,610

Total – $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.