Oscar Mateo dreamed of being an artist, but after he contracted leukemia when he was 20, his life plans abruptly changed. The compassionate nursing care he received while hospitalized touched him so ...

Mt. San Antonio College, in Los Angeles County. More than half of California’s nursing school programs reported their requests for clinical placements in hospitals were denied in 2022-23. Mt. SAC lost ...

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January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. Across California, health care costs ...

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As California faces a critical shortage of registered nurses, Samuel Merritt University (SMU), a leader in health science education for over a century, is taking ...

Nurses are in high demand. Why can’t nursing schools keep up? Oscar Mateo dreamed of being an artist, but after he got leukemia when he was 20, his life plans abruptly changed. The compassionate ...

Students practice with a mannequin simulating a patient at the Mt. San Antonio College campus in California. The shortage of clinical placements for nursing students has led some educators to argue ...