The United States is short roughly 150,000 nurses — and the gap is growing. In this episode of Edison Sound Stage, we sit down with Mark Baiada, founder and chairman of BAYADA Home Healthcare, to explore how a 50-year legacy of compassionate care is now reshaping how nurses are trained. Mark and his wife Ann — a retired registered nurse — co-founded BAYADA Education, a nonprofit launching an innovative accelerated BSN program in partnership with Thomas Edison State University (TESU) and Cooper University Healthcare. It's a model built to produce floor-ready nurses, faster — with intensive one-on-one clinical training, conditional job offers from Cooper before graduation and leadership development built in from day one.