ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — New York is facing a shortage of healthcare workers, and Friday Maria College announced a major partnership to help fill that gap. The school is teaming up with 24 human service organizations to help this issue.

Through this new partnership with Maria College, healthcare workers can get the chance to learn and earn. This means that they can keep their jobs while earning nursing and other healthcare credentials. Officials at Maria College expressed this is very critical because there's a big shortage in not only nurses but other healthcare workers. Due to this, it's causing workers to do the jobs of many people.

Dr. Lynn Ortale, the president of Maria College mentioned how the state's $646 million investment in workforce development had a big impact on this. This i

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