Texas Wesleyan University is the only Tarrant County higher education institution receiving state money from a $5.8 million round of emergency and trauma care grants recently announced by Gov. Greg Abbott.
The university will receive $400,000 to continue a trauma care subspecialty for students in its Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Practice program. The money will support two new cohorts from Aug. 3 through Aug. 2, 2028.
“Texas Wesleyan University is honored to have been awarded this grant to improve trauma care in Texas,” said Terri Kane, dean of Health School Professions, in an email.
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board awarded 24 grants through the Emergency and Trauma Care Education Partnership Program. The program funds partnerships between hospitals and graduate medical or nursing programs to expand emergency and trauma care training in Texas.
Texas Wesleyan’s clinical partners include Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth, JPS Health Network, PHI Air Medical and CareFlite, Kane said.
“This funding will expand emergency and trauma programs across the state to provide students with the education and resources they need and strengthen the Texas workforce,” Abbott said in the news release.
Texas hospitals that responded to a 2024 survey by Texas Center for Nursing Workforce Studies reported that 18.8% of full-time certified registered nurse anesthetist positions were vacant, up from 16.7% in 2022.
Texas Wesleyan was one of four institutions to receive a $400,000 graduate nursing grant.
The award continues work funded by a $509,644 grant that Texas Wesleyan received in 2024. Together, the awards total $909,644.
The first grant created a two-month emergency and trauma rotation. Doctoral students participated in the inaugural cohort in spring 2025, gaining experience with prehospital ground and air teams, emergency departments, anesthesia services and intensive care units.
The grant also paid for emergency-care curriculum and training equipment, such as a mannequin used to simulate echocardiograms. Each new cohort will include 100 students with access to the curriculum and equipment, but only eight Texas residents will be selected each year for more intensive clinical training, Kane said.
Dang Le is the higher education reporter for the Fort Worth Report. Contact him at dang.le@fortworthreport.org.
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