Intro: An MU official says his program will produce needed rural health workers.
Joshua Skurnik (SCUR-nic) has more from Jefferson City. MU School of Health Professions Dean Richard Oliver says an increase of retirement has left a shortage of physical and occupational therapists in rural Missouri, and says he is going ahead with a plan to increase their numbers.
Oliver says MU will provide the course work and core faculty to the community colleges.
Reporting from the State Capital, I'm Joshua Skurnik.
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Description: By selecting some more rural based community colleges we can recruit locally, train locally, and then hopefully a lot of those graduates will stay in rural areas to tend to these dramatic shortages that we see in the health care work force.
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