More than two dozen health care facilities across the state will receive $22.5 million in awards during the next year for training, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday.
The Increasing Training Capacity in Statewide Healthcare Facilities awards, issued by the State Health Department’s Office of Healthcare Workforce Innovation, will go to 13 hospitals and 15 nursing homes and will provide up to $1 million per year for two years to each health care facility.
Awardees include:
- Samaritan Hospital
- Montefiore Medical Center
- Fort Hudson Nursing Center, Inc.
- Upstate Medical University
- Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation
- St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center
- Auburn Community Hospital
- Orleans Community Health, Medina Memorial Hospital
- St. Barnabas Hospital
- The Friendly Home
- BronxCare Health System
- Jamaica Hospital Medical Center
- The Church Home of the Protestant
- Episcopal Church
- Gurwin Healthcare System
- Schofield Residence
- The Plaza Rehab & Nursing Center
- Sisters of Charity Hospital
- We Care
- Flushing Hospital Medical Center
- King Street Rehab
- Highlands at Brighton
- Loretto Health & Rehabilitation
- Monroe Community Hospital
- Ira Davenport Memorial Hospital SNF
- Chemung County Nursing Facility
- Wayne Health Care
- Rochester General Hospital
- Cayuga Health System
“With the largest ever multi-year investment in health care, we will retain, rebuild and grow our health care workforce and ensure we deliver the highest quality health care for New Yorkers,” Gov. Hochul said. “The health of every New Yorker depends on a strong, stable and equitable health care system, and health care workers are its very foundation.”
Awardees may use their funding to cover various eligible expenses, such as costs related to developing training programs and curriculum and compensating staff attending training.
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