Gov. Shapiro, Sec. Bogen launch Nurse Shortage Assistance Program in Honesdale

This story was originally published by WVIA. Jamie Wagner knew she wanted to be a nurse as a young girl when her dad was diagnosed with leukemia. Years later, she received her own diagnosis — early onset Parkinson’s Disease — while she was working as an LPN for the Guthrie health system. She did not let her diagnosis deter her from her goal of higher education and becoming a registered nurse. But finances might have, if not for the pilot of the state’s Nurse Shortage Assistance Program. “Knowi...