Community project funding/congressionally directed spending - construction - to maintain a robust pipeline of bachelor's level nurses, the up-to-date educational equipment must be in place in the…

Community project funding/congressionally directed spending - construction - to maintain a robust pipeline of bachelor's level nurses, the up-to-date educational equipment must be in place in the nursing labs to give siena students hands-on experience in caring for the future patients in the capital region. This project will support siena's ability to expand its existing health care services to the community by graduating a significantly increasing number nurses each year, from 10 graduates in our first cohort in 2018, to 17 in 2021; to 25 in 2022; then 44 in 2023; 58 in 2024; and 60 in 2025. The added nursing equipment will allow US to enroll and graduate even higher numbers, thereby addressing a well-documented health care access disparity in the community and helping to make the capital region "EDS and meds" sector more attractive to prospective students, health care employers and investors. Siena college is committed to student-centered education with an emphasis on dynamic student-faculty interactions to develop compassionate professionals. Central to our mission is ensuring that a siena education is accessible to traditionally underserved populations. Additionally, service at health care clinics and other outreach to underserved and refugee populations in the capital region will form a significant part of the educational and volunteer work required of siena's nursing majors.