"You can't have a healthy community unless it's fiscally healthy and that's a piece that we need to not forget. Nursing and other healthcare careers are a solid step into the solid middle class … [and] a solid step to improving the fiscal health of entire communities." — Kathy Sanford, DBA, RN, FAN, FACHE, executive vice president and chief nursing officer, CommonSpirit Health Nursing schools turn away tens of thousands of qualified applicants due to shortages of clinical sites and faculty, so CommonSpirit Health is responding by partnering with Charles R. Drew University (CDU) of Medicine and Science, one of the nation’s four historically Black medical schools, to grow and diversify the nursing workforce. For this week's lead story, I spoke with Kathy Sanford, DBA, RN, FAN, FACHE, CommonSpirit Health's executive vice president and chief nursing officer, about what the partnership hopes to achieve. | 