College combats nursing shortage with new Sarasota campus

The campus is the third Arizona College of Nursing to open in Florida.

By Business Observer Staff
| 5:06 p.m. July 6, 2022
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Courtesy. The new campus is located at 8043 Cooper Creek Blvd., Suite 107.

Manatee-Sarasota

The Arizona College of Nursing isn’t sitting idly by as the registered nurse vacancy rate climbs. Instead, it’s adding locations like the new campus in Sarasota.

A report released last year by the Florida Hospital Association and the Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida estimates that the state of Florida will encounter a shortage of 59,100 nurses by 2035. As of the report’s publication date, the state’s RN vacancy rate was at 11%.