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Middlef ield Burton-Middlefield Rotary Funds KSU Nursing Scholarships Staff Report In the face of a state-wide nursing shortage, Kent State University and the Burton-Middlefield Rotary Club partnered to establish an endorsed scholarship foundation for nursing students. BMR leadership handed a check for $25,500 to Angela Spalsbury, dean at KSU-Geauga, during a ceremony and dinner at Welshfield Inn in Troy Township May 10 in the middle of National Nursing Week. The $25,000 endowment generates funds for a student pursuing a career in the nursing field and is a collaboration between the Burton-Middlefield Rotary Club and KSU-Geauga to increase nursing careers for local students who want to work without moving far from home. BMR President Michael Valentino said the effort was started just about a year ago when it became apparent, following the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, that hospitals and other healthcare facilities didn’t have enough nurses.
“We needed to do something about the nursing shortage,” he told a room full of Rotarians. Taking a page out of the Geauga County Township Association’s scholarship program, BMR started the endowment ball rolling. “The (KSU nursing scholarship) will always be a program,” he said, giving credit to University Hospitals for helping to renovate space at KSU-Geauga and supplying equipment for the program. The scholarships will be available to any resident of Geauga County enrolled at the KSU-Geauga and Twinsburg academic nursing programs, according to the BMR website. The nursing education program at Kent recently added new simulation labs and hospital room simulations specifically for the nursing program. Spalsbury said she receives calls daily from healthcare organizations asking how many nursing students will be available as soon as possible. “We are creating a pipeline of nurses,” she said, noting 56 nurs-
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The Burton-Middlefield Rotary Club presented Kent State University with a $25,500 check to kick off the KSU Foundation’s endowment fund for nursing students on May 10. Pictured are, from left, BMR member Carole Cashion, BMR member/Geauga County Commissioner Jim Dvorak, BMR President Michael Valentino, KSU-Geauga Dean Angela Spalsbury, Beverly Goodridge, BMR past president and Becky Gierman, associate director of external relations, KSU-Geauga.
ing students will be graduating from the Geauga and Twinsburg campuses in two- and four-year pro-
grams this spring. After graduation, they will study See Rotary • Page 4
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