The Aila Accad Center for
Nurse Entrepreneurship

The Aila Accad Center for Nurse Entrepreneurship was established in 2022 to support nurses interested in opening health related businesses. The Center offers a wide array of business development services and support, including our very popular Nurse Entrepreneur Course.

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Project Lead: Laure Marino

This PDF is Chapter 23 on Nursing Leadership through Entrepreneurship, Marino, L., Accad, A. & Barr, T. in Advanced Practice Nursing: A Global Perspective (2020).

Leadership Through Entrepreneurship

Project Partners:

l-r Laure Marino Project Lead, Ellen Potter (Insurance Commission), the late Aila Accad, Steve Johnson (SBDC)

Collaborative Partners:

Future of Nursing West Virginia
WVU Women’s Business Center
Small Business Development Center
WV Insurance Commission
Department of Health and Human Services Center for Rural Health Development
Advantage Valley
Center for Rural Health Development

This project is being supported in part by generous funding from:

Campaign for Action Innovation Award
The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation
The Appalachian Regional Commission
The US Economic Development Administration
The Claude Benedum Foundation

Meet Some of Our Graduates

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