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UC Davis gets $100M donation for nursing school
Sacramento Business Journal - 1:39 PM PDT Tuesday, July 31, 2007
by Kathy Robertson -Staff writer
The University of California Davis hopes to launch a nursing school in Sacramento by the fall of 2008, thanks to a $100 million donation from a foundation started by Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore and his wife Betty.
The donation is the largest philanthropic grant to UC Davis, one of the largest in University of California history and the largest gift in the nation in support of nursing education.
Pending approvals at a variety of levels, UC Davis expects to admit its first graduate students to the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing in the fall of 2008. At capacity, the school is expected to serve 456 students and offer bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in nursing. The undergraduate program is tentatively projected to start in 2010.
Betty Irene Moore is an advocate for patient safety, quality nursing care and education. She and her husband, a renowned scientist, past chief executive officer and chairman emeritus at Intel, established the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in 2000. The grant to UC Davis is part of the San Francisco-based foundation's existing $123 million commitment to accelerate leadership in nursing and improve nurse-related patient outcomes in San Francisco Bay Area hospitals.
"We've long had the goal of addressing nursing education at UC Davis; this gift accelerates our ability to address it," said Claire Pomeroy, UC Davis vice chancellor for human health services and dean of the School of Medicine. "It's wonderful news for our community, our university and the School of Medicine."
Currently, UC Davis has a family nurse practitioner training program, one of the oldest of its kind in the nation. The new school will give UC Davis a bolstered role in role in educating future nurse leaders and faculty at a time when a nursing shortage continues in California and nationwide.
California faces a shortage of 12,000 full-time registered nurses by 2014 unless universities and community colleges admit more students and reduce drop-out rates, according to a report released in May by nonpartisan legislative analyst Elizabeth Hill.
The total foundation gift of $100 million will be allocated over 11 years. The first, two-year grant of $21.2 million will help UC Davis recruit key personnel, faculty and staff; develop curriculum; market the program and build a capability to raise more money.
"Today's announcement is about investing in future nurse leaders," foundation president Ed Penhoet said in a prepared statement. "UC Davis and the foundation share a vision to face our nation's healthcare problems by integrating the best of healthcare and scientific practices with multiple disciplines in higher education for nurses."
The nursing school will be located at the Sacramento campus of UC Davis, sharing existing facilities with the UC Davis Medical Center and UC Davis School of Medicine. It joins professional schools of medicine, veterinary medicine, law, business and education.
The school will be the fourth professional nursing program in the University of California system, joining nursing schools at UCLA and UC San Francisco and a nursing program at UC Irvine.
About 60 percent of qualified nursing school applicants in California are currently turned away because there is no room for them, said JoAnn Spetz, assistant professor at the UCSF School of Nursing. The state had 11,131 entry-level spaces for nursing students in 2005-2006, but received 28,410 applications she said.
There are at least six nursing programs of different kinds in Greater Sacramento, including a master's degree program at California State University Sacramento, but no doctoral programs.
"I've had students commuting from Sacramento to take my classes at UCSF," Spetz said. "That's pretty rough."
UC Davis gets $100M donation for nursing school
Sacramento Business Journal - 1:39 PM PDT Tuesday, July 31, 2007
by Kathy Robertson -Staff writer
The University of California Davis hopes to launch a nursing school in Sacramento by the fall of 2008, thanks to a $100 million donation from a foundation started by Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore and his wife Betty.
The donation is the largest philanthropic grant to UC Davis, one of the largest in University of California history and the largest gift in the nation in support of nursing education.
Pending approvals at a variety of levels, UC Davis expects to admit its first graduate students to the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing in the fall of 2008. At capacity, the school is expected to serve 456 students and offer bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in nursing. The undergraduate program is tentatively projected to start in 2010.
Betty Irene Moore is an advocate for patient safety, quality nursing care and education. She and her husband, a renowned scientist, past chief executive officer and chairman emeritus at Intel, established the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in 2000. The grant to UC Davis is part of the San Francisco-based foundation's existing $123 million commitment to accelerate leadership in nursing and improve nurse-related patient outcomes in San Francisco Bay Area hospitals.
"We've long had the goal of addressing nursing education at UC Davis; this gift accelerates our ability to address it," said Claire Pomeroy, UC Davis vice chancellor for human health services and dean of the School of Medicine. "It's wonderful news for our community, our university and the School of Medicine."
Currently, UC Davis has a family nurse practitioner training program, one of the oldest of its kind in the nation. The new school will give UC Davis a bolstered role in role in educating future nurse leaders and faculty at a time when a nursing shortage continues in California and nationwide.
California faces a shortage of 12,000 full-time registered nurses by 2014 unless universities and community colleges admit more students and reduce drop-out rates, according to a report released in May by nonpartisan legislative analyst Elizabeth Hill.
The total foundation gift of $100 million will be allocated over 11 years. The first, two-year grant of $21.2 million will help UC Davis recruit key personnel, faculty and staff; develop curriculum; market the program and build a capability to raise more money.
"Today's announcement is about investing in future nurse leaders," foundation president Ed Penhoet said in a prepared statement. "UC Davis and the foundation share a vision to face our nation's healthcare problems by integrating the best of healthcare and scientific practices with multiple disciplines in higher education for nurses."
The nursing school will be located at the Sacramento campus of UC Davis, sharing existing facilities with the UC Davis Medical Center and UC Davis School of Medicine. It joins professional schools of medicine, veterinary medicine, law, business and education.
The school will be the fourth professional nursing program in the University of California system, joining nursing schools at UCLA and UC San Francisco and a nursing program at UC Irvine.
About 60 percent of qualified nursing school applicants in California are currently turned away because there is no room for them, said JoAnn Spetz, assistant professor at the UCSF School of Nursing. The state had 11,131 entry-level spaces for nursing students in 2005-2006, but received 28,410 applications she said.
There are at least six nursing programs of different kinds in Greater Sacramento, including a master's degree program at California State University Sacramento, but no doctoral programs.
"I've had students commuting from Sacramento to take my classes at UCSF," Spetz said. "That's pretty rough."