Solving Healthcare Shortages: Certified Medical Assistant Apprenticeships
The Central Texas Healthcare Partnership is solving local healthcare shortages by utilizing earn and learn opportunities such as apprenticeships. One occupational shortage that our industry leaders identified was Certified Medial Assistant (CMA). The Challenge: A...
Central Texas Healthcare Partnership: Poverty Simulation with Texas State University
This month, over 110 nursing and radiation therapy students at Texas State University participated in a Poverty Simulation—an immersive experience designed to deepen empathy, understanding, and compassion for individuals facing economic hardship. Through the support...
Central Texas Healthcare Partnership: Filling a Texas-Sized Shortage of Nurses
This article originally appeared in Fairfield University Magazine, the alumni magazine of Fairfield University. Bryan Rivera ’25 was not born in Texas. But as the saying goes, he got here as fast as he could. It was a circuitous route, to be sure, as Rivera was born...
Central Texas Healthcare Partnership: Spotlight on Fairfield University
Workforce Solutions Capital Area partners with many local healthcare employers to train and hire the workforce for this key local industry. One of our partners is Fairfield University. Fairfield University’s nationally ranked nursing school expanded into Austin in...