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WellPoint Donates $15 Million for Nurses

The Foundation for California Community Colleges received a $15 million endowment from WellPoint Inc. to support the expansion of nursing programs at California Community Colleges. The endowment established with WellPoint’s donation will provide matching funds to Governor Schwarzenegger’s Nursing Education Initiative grants awarded last year. Brenda Epperly, director of health care programs at the foundation, said that 32,000 students across the country were turned away from nursing programs last year because there was not enough capacity to accommodate them. California, according to the foundation, ranks 49th in the ratio of registered nurses per population, and by 2006 will need 46,000 additional nurses.

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