JHG TEXAS CORPORATION
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Mission Statement
The JHG Texas Vision is a healthier North Texas. Our Mission is to help overcome the national shortage of Registered Nurses through scholarship support to highly qualified student nurses who would not otherwise be able to afford the cost of nursing studies, to pursue a BSN.
About This Cause
The Problem: The Shortage of Registered Nurses in the United States is an Existential Healthcare Threat. In July 2020, the Texas Department of Health Services published the most recent projection of the shortage of nurses in Texas: “By 2032, the supply of RN FTEs is expected to grow by 30.5% to 291,872, while demand will grow by 38.8% to 348,883, leaving a deficit of 57,012 RN FTEs. Based on these projections, 16.3% of the projected demand for RNs in 2032 will not be met.” The largest demand for RNs is in the inpatient hospital setting. The shortfall of RNs in Texas has accelerated since the 2020 study. The Wall Street Journal reported on April 19, 2023, “Many nurses retired or left the field after the pandemic made their jobs far harder. Others switched hospitals for jobs with higher pay or more flexible schedules. Nurse employment dropped by more than 100,000 workers between 2020 and 2021, the largest decline in four decades of available data…” (referring to a study in the journal Health Affairs). Anecdotally, Parkland Hospital management in Dallas reported in a January 2023 “Dallas Morning News” article that the shortfall in RNs at Parkland had already reached 20%. A major barrier for student nurses to graduate and enter the national nursing workforce is the high cost of four-year baccalaureate education as half of the student nurses are from low-income households and Pell eligible. The annual direct cost of nursing education and indirect living expenses per student nurse at the colleges of nursing of University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) and Texas Woman’s University (TWU) is estimated at $28,000. The nursing shortage is not only a quantitative problem; it is also qualitative. For example, only 48% of RNs in Texas (and 46% nationally) have earned a BSN, whereas the remainder earn RN accreditation after only two years of vocational education, typically with an ADN. The RNs who have completed the full four-year curriculum to earn a BSN will have acquired important critical thinking skills that lead to fewer mistakes in hospital practice as they administer pharmaceuticals. Two published JAMA studies show that hospitals with a higher percentage of RN’s who have earned a BSN result in improved patient outcomes and fewer in-hospital surgical patient deaths. Your support to increase the number of BSN graduates is needed to improve the quality of nursing health care and to help reduce the growing shortfall! The JHG Texas Nursing Scholarships for qualified BSN candidates are a proven solution. Through our working partnerships with the colleges of nursing at UTA and TWU, JHG Texas provides scholarship support to qualified BSN candidates who could not otherwise afford the cost of baccalaureate level nursing education. Our treasury is very modest, so we aggregate fundraising proceeds from individual donors, foundations, and corporations in the JHG Texas Fund for Nursing Scholarships managed by the Communities Foundation of Texas. That donor advised fund provides block grants to our partner colleges of nursing at highly competitive universities. The scholarship committees at the colleges of nursing, in turn, award individual JHG Texas Nursing Scholarships according to strict specifications that JHG Texas develops with college staff. We have raised and granted $439,000 in the past 7 years to award 130 JHG Texas Nursing Scholarships as at September 2023. The Metrics: the JHG Texas Nursing Scholarships Program Achieves Results: • BSN Graduates: Of the 130 JHG Texas Nursing Scholarships awarded to date, 69 have already earned a BSN as they move on to RN accreditation. 42 JHG Texas Nursing Scholars have graduated at the UTA College of Nursing and Health Innovation and 27 at the TWU College of Nursing in Dallas. Many more are scheduled to graduate in this academic year. • Retention Rates: 100% of our JHG Texas Nursing Scholars at UTA and TWU have stayed in the BSN program to date. In other words, no drop-outs! This is due in part from our financial support, but also from mentoring our scholars in the Myers-JHG Tutoring and Academic Support Center at Texas Woman's University College of Nursing in Dallas. Our request is for student nurse education scholarship support in an an amount scaled to fit your program. Key details are: • JHG Texas Nursing Scholarships are dedicated to promote medical education in the critically important hospital health care field. • 100% of your investment for JHG Texas Nursing Scholarships are received by the highly qualified student nurses without any deductions such as rent, salaries, office expenses, or entertainment costs. JHG Texas is managed by dedicated uncompensated volunteers with no deductions from your investment. (A separate $2,000 gift from a Dallas based foundation is dedicated specifically to cover our annual program costs: graphics, websites, and webmaster.) • A typical JHG Texas annual scholarship is currently $3,000 at $1,500 per semester at UTA College of Nursing and Health Innovation and $5,000 at Texas Woman's University College of Nursing. These amounts are intended to supplement an underlying Pell Grant typically averaging $6,400, which the awardee receives first. By supplementing and leveraging off the Pell Grant, your investment in the JHG Texas Fund for Nursing Scholarships achieves more bang for the buck. • 90% of our scholarships are awarded to recipients in their third or fourth year of their four-year BSN curriculum. These more advanced student nurses are more mature and committed to their nursing career path than freshmen, thus ensuring enhanced risk management (against dropouts) for your investment. 10% of scholarships are awarded to qualified at-risk high school graduates who are pre-nursing students mentored one-on-one by the Foundation for C.H.O.I.C.E. • Minimum Awardee Qualifications at UTA and TWU Colleges of Nursing are financial need (Pell eligible) and merit based (minimum 3.5 GPA). • Full public recognition is given to your institution as sponsor for the scholarships that you fund. • Your grant will be received by the JHG Texas Fund for Nursing Scholarships, a donor advised fund professionally managed by the Communities Foundation of Texas, which has $2 billion under management. An account summary for the past year is available on request. JHG Texas does not receive the funds in its books, nor does JHG Texas handle the funds directly. JHG Texas mentors student nurses to add value to your scholarship support: • A Mike A. Myers Foundation grant to JHG Texas enables us to fund half the annual operating cost of the Myers-JHG Tutoring and Academic Support Center at TWU College of Nursing in Dallas to add intrinsic value to JHG Texas Nursing Scholarships. The Myers-JHG Tutoring and Academic Support Center at TWU College of Nursing in Dallas offers free tutoring to student nurses both virtually and in person. It also provides practicum experience to the tutors, typically post-graduate students who are studying to become nurse educators. Through the past academic year, 268.25 hours of 1:1 academic tutoring have benefited 106 undergraduate and graduate student nurses across 69 course sections. Tutoring is especially helpful to students from secondary schools in under-served communities to achieve better academic results. If a student nurse were to fail a core course, like pharmacology for example, she would become ineligible to graduate with a BSN! • JHG Texas mentors student nurses by offering helpful career building resources to JHG Texas Nursing Scholars on our website at www.jhgscholars.org • When pandemic conditions allow, JHG Texas Nursing Scholars are invited to participate in JHG Texas community service activities such as serving meals at the local Salvation Army or building ramps for shut-ins. (This helps satisfy the student nurses' community service requirements of their respective college of nursing.) • JHG Texas created a standby emergency assistance reserve in 2022 for student nurses who may suffer an unforeseen catastrophic financial crisis that would impact completion of their nursing education (ie. cause them to become unable to pay tuition or become food or housing insecure). Thank you for considering scholarship support with the JHG Texas Fund for Nursing Scholarships. The results not only help narrow the shortfall of RNs, but also provide professional career building support to qualified student nurses from low income households to become well educated for a career path in the health care workforce as Registered Nurses with a BSN. Multi-year pledges are also sought to help provide financial continuity to the JHG Texas Nursing Scholarships program! If you approve, please remit your investment to: The Communities Foundation of Texas (as payee) for the credit of “JHG Texas Fund for Nursing Scholarships #F-01335” on the memo line. Their address is: Communities Foundation of Texas 5500 Caruth Haven Lane Dallas, TX 75225