Staring down 10,000 empty nursing positions around Maryland, state hospital officials and local nursing schools announced a multimillion-dollar plan Monday to help fill those scrubs.

“By 2015, we intend to significantly fill those vacancies,” said Cal Pierson, president of the Maryland Hospital Association. “We are the first state to produce results of this magnitude. We intend to erase [the shortage] over a 10-year period.”

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