华体会体育HCA 医疗保健 announces $4.8 million gift to help launch 佩珀代因大学's School of Nursing
田纳西州纳什维尔。2025年12月5日 – HCA医疗保健公司 (NYSE:HCA), one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, today announced it will give $4.8 million to 佩珀代因大学 to help launch the School of Nursing within the 华体会体育. This is part of HCA 医疗保健’s greater commitment to helping address the national nursing shortage.
“We believe that investing in nursing education is vital to the future of healthcare,” said Sammie Mosier, DHA, MA, BSN, NE-BC, senior vice president and chief nurse executive for HCA 医疗保健. “It is a privilege to support 佩珀代因大学’s new School of Nursing as they prepare the next generation of caregivers with the tools, confidence and compassion to care for patients and communities.”
“Through this collaboration, our students will learn how to care for patients in their daily work and how to serve people with their whole lives,” said Dee Anna Smith, chair of the Pepperdine 校董会. “We believe this movement will bear fruit in our local communities and across the nation.”
佩珀代因大学护理学院于今年秋季开学，目前招收了68名学生。 The school provides undergraduate and graduate nursing degree programs, including a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and an Entry Level Master of Science, Clinical Nurse Leader (ELM-CNL). 应用程序 2026年秋季的两个项目现在都开放了。 As part of their curriculum, nursing students will have the opportunity to complete clinical rotations at HCA 医疗保健’s Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California.
This gift contributes to the development of 佩珀代因大学’s new 30,000-square-foot facility, located on Pepperdine’s Calabasas campus, which includes 华体会体育-of-the-art clinical simulation labs, high-fidelity patient manikins, and immersive learning environments designed to prepare students in lifelike scenarios.
HCA 医疗保健 has made significant investments to support nurses and educate the next generation of nursing leaders.
- Since HCA 医疗保健 purchased Galen College of Nursing in 2020, the college has opened 20 new campuses, totaling 25 campuses nationwide. Today, more than 19,000 students are enrolled, including 4,000 HCA 医疗保健 colleagues.
- In 2023, HCA 医疗保健 announced a $34.5 million expansion project for Research College of Nursing in Kansas City, Missouri, supporting the development and building of an HCA 医疗保健 Center for Clinical Advancement on the campus of Research Medical Center.
- In 2023, the HCA 医疗保健 Foundation, through its Healthier Tomorrow Fund, announced $250,000 in grants to community colleges and universities to provide high school students early access to careers in healthcare. As part of these grants, Miami Dade College received $50,000 towards its Care Cadre Nurse Exploration Experience and Pensacola State College received $50,000 to help fund the Nurse Explorer Boot Camp. Both programs give students early exposure to careers in nursing.
关于HCA 医疗保健
Nashville-based HCA 医疗保健 is one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services comprising 191 hospitals and approximately 2,500 ambulatory sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers, and physician clinics, in 20 华体会体育s and the United Kingdom. With its founding in 1968, HCA 医疗保健 created a new model for hospital care in the United States, using combined resources to strengthen hospitals, deliver patient-focused care and improve the practice of medicine. HCA 医疗保健 has conducted a number of clinical studies, including one that demonstrated that full-term delivery is healthier than early elective delivery of babies and another that identified a clinical protocol that can reduce bloodstream infections in ICU patients by 44%. HCA 医疗保健 is a learning health system that uses its approximately 44 million annual patient encounters to advance science, improve patient care and save lives.
关于佩珀代因大学
Founded in 1937, 佩珀代因大学 is an independent, Christian university located 30 miles west of Downtown Los Angeles in scenic Malibu and Calabasas, California. The University enrolls approximately 10,300 students across its flagship liberal arts school, 西维尔大学; the C华体会体育, and four graduate schools—the 华体会体育; the 华体会体育; the hth华体会体育入口; and the 华体会体育. Pepperdine is committed to the highest standards of academic excellence and Christian values, where students are strengthened for lives of purpose, service, and leadership.