The Story

There is a shortage of nurses in North Texas. The DFWHC Foundation has developed a program to link nurses and hospitals to fill those shortage areas. Linking hospitals and nurses improves the number of nurses in each hospital, providing you and your family with better care.

Through regional collaborations with hospitals and schools, strategies are formed to increase the quality and quantity of healthcare staffs. These include increasing nursing school enrollment, online options for nursing education and exploring allied health profession shortages.

Services including the Texas Nursing Resource Center have been created to assist schools and hospitals with clinical placements and faculty recruitment. Through regional collaborations with schools and hospitals, we work to provide the right workforce at the right time through the education of the future healthcare workforce.

Financial scholarships are awarded on an annual basis to assist students in nursing and allied health professions. Multiple students from North Texas colleges have been awarded to date.

The Workforce Center provides a forum for collaboration of healthcare workforce issues with 70-plus Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council member hospitals, 15 North Texas colleges and universities, investment boards, chambers of commerce and community partners.   Collaborations include working with local, state and national organizations. The Workforce Center works towards improving the quality and number of healthcare workers in the region and serves as an advocate for issues that affect hospitals.