Educating Future Nurses Act

This bill creates a permanent program to help train advanced practice registered nurses, especially in caring for people on Medicare. Under the program, hospitals can receive payments to cover the costs of training these nurses, but they must work with nursing schools or other health care providers like nursing homes to offer the training. At least half of the training must happen outside of hospitals, in community settings, and it must cover a range of care including primary, preventive, and chronic care. Hospitals in the program are required to report on their progress each year or face reduced payments.

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