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Ontario Will Cover The Tuition For 2,500 Future Healthcare Workers & Here's Who Is Eligible

Starting this spring!👇

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The Ontario government announced in London this morning that they will cover the tuition for 2,500 future healthcare workers to bring "care to people, closer to home."

The government is expanding the "Learn and Stay grant" to connect "underserved and growing communities with health care workers," they stated in a press release on Friday.

"Expanding Ontario's Learn and Stay grant to include nurses, paramedics and med-techs in more underserved and growing communities is another innovative solution that's connecting people to care, closer to home," Premier Doug Ford said.

To be eligible, students must:

  • Apply and enrol in an eligible program in a "priority community."
  • Be an Ontario resident and be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident or protected person.
  • Commit to working in the region where they studied and graduated from.

Eligible students will receive their full tuition upfront, and it will include money for books and other direct educational costs. But, students who receive this grant will have to, in return, work and care for people in the regions where they studied for a term after graduating.

The 2023-2024 grant applications will open this spring and will help 2,500 postsecondary students who are enrolled in the following programs and regions:

  • "Nursing programs in northern, eastern and southwestern Ontario
  • Medical laboratory technologist/medical laboratory sciences programs in northern and southwestern Ontario
  • Paramedic programs in northern Ontario."
"We're making sure that all Ontarians in every corner of the province, no matter where they live, have more convenient access to the care and support they need," Ford added.
According to the government, $61 million will go towards the Learn and Stay grant over the next three years.
"We know the status quo isn't working, so we need to move forward with bold initiatives to add more health care professionals in Ontario and especially in rural and remote communities," the Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, Sylvia Jones, said.
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