The education of future nurses at the Huron Community Campus is at a sudden and major crossroads…
Nursing program advisory board member Dr. Robert Hohm addressed the Huron City Commission Monday explaining that the trend in nursing education is moving away from two-year programs, like the one offered at the Huron Community Campus through Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell…
Hohm told the City Commission they are looking at a number of solutions to continuing a nursing program at the Huron Community Campus, possibly looking at a venture with Lake Area Technical Institute in Watertown. Huron Regional Medical Center CEO David Dick says a nursing program in Huron is critical to H-R-M-C…
Dick says they want to keep a new program as close to what the D-W-U program was but that more travel may be required….
The advisory board asked for and received from the City Commission, permission to pursue options to continue the nursing program at Huron Community Campus and hope to bring a proposal back to the Commission at a later date.