UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence at Penn State, housed within the School of Nursing, has received additional funding from The John A. Hartford Foundation to continue its work for the next three years.
The three-year, $300,000 grant, effective Jan. 1, 2013, enables the Hartford Center to continue its mission of preparing geriatric nursing faculty for teaching careers in geographical areas of the greatest need.
Established in October 2007, the Hartford Center at Penn State is one of just eight National Hartford Centers and one of three in the eastern United States. In its first five years, the center graduated 14 master’s and doctoral students, and received more than $6.5 million in National Institutes of Health funding for geriatric nursing research projects.
The center is committed to ensuring the geriatric competence of the nursing workforce by increasing the number of geriatric nursing faculty who can teach at all levels of nursing education.