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TGH is investing $4.4 million over six years to support the planning and implementation of the USF College of Nursing Simulation Lab.

An illicit network of nursing schools illegally charged each student between $10,000 for an LPN degree and $17,000 for an RN diploma without requiring proper training, officials say.

The university's Board of Trustees will consider approving nearly $700,000 dollars in matching funds from the state to help boost its nursing program.

Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed more than $34 million for Sarasota County projects and plans in the state budget; $20 million of that was meant for a new STEM nursing facility at the USF Sarasota-Manatee campus.

The program is funded through a grant from the National Institutes of Health and is part of a two-year intervention study aimed at reducing stigma for people who are HIV positive and for members of Vietnam’s gay and bisexual communities.

The fraudulent diplomas and transcripts qualified those who purchased them to sit for the national nursing board exam. If they passed, they were able to obtain licenses and jobs, prosecutors said.

The PIPELINE funding for nursing schools was allocated last year by the Legislature to retain students and as well as instructors, who’ve been lured by lucrative nursing jobs in other states.

States are acting in the wake of a federal investigation into what officials say was a fraud scheme in which several now-closed South Florida nursing schools sold phony nursing diplomas and transcripts.

The program is a first for Mayo Clinic in Florida. It will train students working toward an associate degree in nursing.

Federal authorities say three South Florida nursing school participated in a wire fraud scheme that they say created an illegal shortcut for aspiring nurses to get licensed and find employment.