The Los Rios Community College District received a $5 million nursing grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, according to a press conference held by Congresswoman Doris Matsui at Cosumnes River College.

The grant, of which the LRCCD is one of fewer than 60 recipients, was given through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The money will be used to fund a training program in nursing  called the HealthForce Institute. Organizations working with the LRCCD will include Sutter Health, BloodSource, the UC Davis Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente and Catholic Healthcare West.

“Our community will see enormous benefits as we address the critical shortage of well-trained, qualified nurses,” said Matsui on a press release after the conference.

Nursing students who have graduated from a Los Rios campus will be offered a one-year training program. After the program’s completion, they will be given the opportunity to get jobs through Sutter Health and BloodSource.

The scheduled start date for preparations was March 1.

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Raquel Arata, director of grants and contracts for Los Rios, said the program will train students in specific areas, including digital medical record keeping

“A good chunk” of the funds will go to new equipment, primarily medical lab technology at Folsom Lake College and ultrasound equipment at Cosumnes River College, Arata said. Most of the program will be run from existing facilities,

“The money will be mainly for SET (Sacramento Employment and Training) faculty and personnel,”  Arata said. “It will pay for recruiting and placing students, placing faculty to run the programs and placing instructors.”

Those preparations will occur over the summer, and students will hopefully be placed by the fall semester, Arata said.

“We’re really happy to be recipients of this grant,” Arata said. “It will affect real people, in a good way.”