Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

A local nursing home is “fast tracking” courses for people interested in becoming certified nursing assistants. The need is greater now more than ever in nursing homes amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

WILLMAR — Ridgewater College is responding to the nursing home staffing shortage in Minnesota by offering nursing assistant classes at no cost to participants at both their Hutchinson and Willmar ...