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Columbia-based MedStar, high school team on 'Rx for Success' to combat worker shortage.

Daily Record (Baltimore, MD)

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Byline: Karen Buckelew

The blocks of row houses surrounding Vivien T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy in West Baltimore are speckled with boarded-up windows.

But inside the school, the teens who grew up on those blocks wear brilliant white lab coats emblazoned with the name of their school on one lapel and the name of MedStar Health, the Columbia-based hospital system, on the other.

They're preparing to wear white lab coats throughout their careers, or so hope the Baltimore City Public School System and MedStar Health executives, the two main partners in a new school-to-work program called Rx for Success.

MedStar is working with the school to…

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