An online nursing school with on-site clinical training at a long-term care facility and other local health care facilities recently opened in southwest Colorado Springs.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Aug. 13 at Cheyenne Mountain Center, 835 Tenderfoot Hill Road. It is the first location in Colorado for Nightingale College, a private, for-profit school headquartered in Salt Lake City.
The school’s “innovative Dedicated Distance Cohort delivery model focuses on developing the ‘homegrown’ nursing workforce,” which is “available on-demand, well versed in meeting the health needs of the local community and properly aligned with the health care employers’ expectations,” Nightingale College’s President and CEO Mikhail Shneyder said in an email.
Organization officials cite the state’s nursing shortage and waiting lists at local schools as the reason for selecting Colorado Springs for its next site.