Boston-based startup, InSpring, to work with Massachusetts General Brigham’s (MGB) Institute of Health Professions (IHP) to address nursing shortage
/A new startup in Boston by the name of InSpring is turning to international students to help address nursing vacancies at Massachusetts hospitals. These nursing vacancies are part of a larger national trend of shortages in nursing staff at hospitals. According to Axios Boston, the rate of vacancies in nursing positions in Massachusetts hospitals more than doubled during the past few years, from 6.4 percent in 2019 to 13.5 percent in 2022, and insufficient staff is leading to delays in care for patients.
InSpring will admit 20–30 international students into the first cohort, which will enter an accelerated bachelor of nursing program at the MGH Institute of Health Professions, Mass General Brigham's graduate school. According to the startup's CEO and cofounder, "What we know now is that international students not only can do the work and want to do the work, they're historically underutilized.”
InSpring will help place recruits in nursing jobs across the US and assist them with filing applications to satisfy immigration laws. The inaugural cohort will aim to take the nursing licensing exam in early 2025, though they will be able to work as a nursing assistant or in other roles before securing their license.
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