The College of Nursing at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) was recently awarded a two-year Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship (AENT) grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, part of a larger U.S. Department of Health and Human Services program to address the growing shortage of primary care providers across the nation. "With the Affordable Care Act, the number of people with insurance has increased," says Dr. Haley Hoy, who serves as Interim Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and is also an associate professor in the College's acute-care nurse practitioner and doctor of nursing practice programs. "So this is a way to provide increased access to care, by increasing the number of providers."