BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – It takes quite a while to grow a physician. It takes quite a while to grow a physician assistant, too, and quite a while to grow a nurse -- but you’ve got to start somewhere.

Today at Bakersfield College, that seed was planted.

Representatives of Dignity Health -- that’s Mercy and Memorial hospitals -- were on hand at Bakersfield College Monday with the president of an Atlanta medical school to share the details of a partnership that will start training and eventually begin delivering newly minted doctors, nurses and physician assistants.

Morehouse School of Medicine has partnered with Common Spirit Health (Dignity’s parent company), the Kern Community College District and the Kern High School District to launch a Health Scholars Pathway -- a direct, afforda

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