Douglas Chia: We Did Not Expect an Impact Like This
“At some point we talked about expanding the program… The thought was, in conjunction with the people at Yale-China and at Xiangya to look at places in western Hunan province… Then those nurses who went through this program became part of the larger alumni network. Now they are benefiting from the knowledge of everybody, especially the people at the larger institutions. Then some of these nurses rose up the ranks and became head of the nursing department or the head of the hospital. And we thought, ‘Wow. This, we did not expect.’”