Singular purpose

If you can't recruit enough graduates, start your own college.

That's what a group of Naples anesthesiologists did in 2000 when they founded Wolford College. At the time, half of Collier Anesthesia's nursing staff was made up of expensive temporary employees because the practice couldn't find enough full-time nurse anesthetists.

“It was killing us financially,” recalls Lynda Waterhouse, the executive director of Collier Anesthesia who recently was named president and CEO of Wolford College.