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From an industry panel on healthcare staffing: why rural hospitals should build talent pipelines starting in middle school, and how to turn that outreach into a fundable, trackable program.

Travel and agency staffing costs keep climbing for rural hospitals. See the numbers, then learn how Craft Education's apprenticeship model builds your own surgical tech and sterile processing talent instead.

A vacant surgical tech, sterile processing, or EKG seat can cost a rural hospital up to twice a staff wage in traveler pay, every week it's open. Here's the math, and why training beats recruiting.

RHTP, WIOA, Workforce Pell, and more are putting real money into rural hospital workforce pathways. The barrier isn't funding, it's building one plan that braids the programs together.

Surgical tech vacancies are at crisis levels in rural hospitals. This post analyzes shortage data, traditional hiring failures, and how turnkey training builds a durable local pipeline.

EKG technicians play a small but essential role in cardiac care. This guide breaks down what the job involves, the credential behind it, and why rural hospitals are often closer to filling it than they realize.