EMCC piloting remote nursing program in Dover-Foxcroft

July 10, 2017

A Bangor community college is working to fill a nursing gap in some of the most rural counties in the state with the launch of a nursing program in Dover-Foxcroft.

Piscataquis County, like many places in Maine, is facing a critical shortage of qualified nurses.

“This is just the first of hopefully many thinking-outside-the-box programs that we’re going to unroll,” says Jennifer Khavari, director of advancement at Eastern Maine Community College. Read more»