Texas Health Resources has launched a program that aims to prepare high school students for nursing careers, reports KDAF news. Fourteen Dallas-Fort Worth-area hospitals are operated by Texas Health Resources, which offers the program to 25 high school graduates.

The program, called the Prodigy Program, hopes to create interest in nursing early, and help fill a shortage of nurses. It also ensures that those nurses are cheaper to higher. Texas Health Resources can train its own nurses, starting early, for about $20,000, according to Human Resources Vice President Bonnie Bell. To recruit a nurse costs about $40,000 to $50,000, she told KDAF. The program also pays for student tuition at University of Texas-Arlington

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