âThereâs not enough nursing students in programsâ: Phoebe partners with ABAC to fund nursing program
Phoebe partners with ABAC to fund nursing program By Avery Jacobs | March 16, 2021 at 7:23 PM EDT - Updated March 16 at 8:19 PM
ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - Since the beginning of COVID-19, the Southwest Georgia area has had a nursing shortage with students being able to be admitted into nursing programs. Now, the Phoebe Emergency Center plans to partner with Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC) to help with these issues.
Phoebe and ABAC are finding ways to help fund a new nursing faculty position and provide nursing students access to clinical rotations and training facilities.
Stacey Abrams launches campaign to combat racial inequities with vaccine
Stacey Abrams finds it incomprehensible that the communities and regions most ravaged by the pandemic in Georgia have been getting the lowest percentages of vaccines and resources.
According to the data that Abrams’ Fair Count has gathered, Southwest Georgia has been an “epicenter for the state’s troubled vaccine rollout.” African Americans make up more than 75 percent of the COVID-19 deaths in Albany, Abrams stated, yet that demographic is being vaccinated about half as often as their Caucasian counterparts. Albany is a more rural region in Georgia, nearly 200 miles south of Atlanta.