BATON ROUGE — Our Lady of the Lake Hospital is expanding its partnership with Southern University’s School of Nursing to help fill critical workforce gaps and address representation in healthcare.
The expansion focuses on increasing educational resources, providing job opportunities and retaining nurses within the Capital Region.
This investment includes funding for scholarships and a new state-of-the-art building at Southern University in the near future.
Dean Sandra Brown said that, in the past, the school had to turn away qualified students due to limited space, but the partnership’s new building will provide them will advanced technology and more space.
“We’re going to have a new school of nursing. It’s going to be housed right adjacent to our existing school of nursing. It’s going to have a state-of-the-art simulation lab, high tech, high touch classrooms, a simulation center like none other,” Brown said.
The collaboration also aims to address representation within the healthcare field. …