SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Western Governors University (WGU) today announced that its Board of Directors has renamed the College of Health Professions as the Michael O. Leavitt School of Health (Leavitt School of Health) in recognition of the leadership and contributions of Michael O. Leavitt, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, former Utah governor, and founding member of WGU. The school is also launching long-term plans to tackle national workforce gaps in healthcare and solve community health crises at the local level.
Combined, these efforts will allow WGU to expand its support of workforce equity and health care at scale across the United States.
“Transformation of the U.S. health care industry will require scalable and successful educational solutions,” said Scott Pulsipher, WGU’s president. “The Leavitt School of Health is already one of the nation’s leading institutions for nursing education. Based upon the incredible success to date and proven ability to offer programs with some of the highest licensure rates of any in the country, now it is uniquely positioned to expand access to underserved populations through our national reach and local impact.”
The School’s new design aims to have the same impact on other areas of health care education that it has had in nursing. In 2021, 17.2% of all RN to BSN graduates nationally—registered nurses earning a Bachelor of Science in Nursing—were…
