SUNY Schenectady and Ellis Medicine are working together to create opportunities for future healthcare workers to receive quality training and work for Ellis.
The new program will be detailed at SUNY Schenectady on Monday afternoon.
Officials say they are collaborating on new initiatives that will develop paths to employment at Ellis Medicine for qualified SUNY Schenectady graduates, as well as give students a way to further their education in nursing at the Belanger School of Nursing.
Last month, in an op-ed in the New York Daily News, SUNY Chancellor John King, along with City University of New York Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez and the Commission on Independent Colleges & Universities in New York President Lola Brabham, urged lawmakers to consider legislation aimed at combatting the state's nursing shortage, noting a lack of quality clinical placements in hospital settings required to complete their education.
If the nursing shortage crisis isn't addressed, the op-ed said by 2030, New York will have a shortage of almost 40,000 nurses.