 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. On January 18th, ARH and Big Sandy Community and Technical College announced a new partnership that will benefit nursing students. Students can now apply for a new health care scholarship that will provide them with up to $15,000. The scholarship also provides post-graduation compensation and benefits. Today's announcement is a partnership between Big Sandy Community and Technical College and Appalachian Regional Health Care to address the critical shorting nursing need that we have in our area. It takes partnerships between higher education institutions and partnerships with our local employers to address the critical nursing needs that we have in our area. Big problems require creative thinking and making big decisions. And this partnership with ARH and Big Sandy allows students to have financial options and choices to not only graduate with them as a registered nurse and to seek employment, but to do that debt-free. And a lot of our students don't have those choices the same way other students do, so this is just another amazing, fantastic way to give students choice to not only be a nurse, but to graduate debt-free and work for an amazing employer in our region. Students are already excited to be given this opportunity. The efforts of the college and ARH will greatly impact health care services in the East Kentucky region. When you make announcements like this, even the event today, I saw a lot of students logging on with their phones, checking out that QR code, and even today in the background, a lot of our students talking to ARH about the details of that scholarship, what their options are. This is a big announcement. This is a big announcement because it just shows how employers, particularly healthcare employer like ARH and the local community college, the Big Sandy Community and Technical College, work together to address our community needs, these critical needs that we have. Reporting from Outantop News, I'm Nick Collum.