Rewarding Discrimination: Inside HHS’s ‘Nursing Workforce Diversity’ Program

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has for years quietly operated a grant project that rewards nursing education programs engaged in racially discriminatory practices.

The program asks recipients to establish methods to increase the enrollment of “racial and ethnic minorities” and other “underrepresented” groups. And recipient nursing education programs oblige, prioritizing certain racial groups for educational opportunities or employing admissions strategies designed to increase racial diversity.

Many nursing education programs even credit the HHS for enabling these unethical practices.

This grant project is the HHS’s “Nursing Workforce Diversity” program.

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