Responding to demand from Michigan hospitals, Wayne State University\'s College of Nursing will launch a program in September to shorten from 22 to 15 months the time to train nurses to be neonatal nurse practitioners. Wayne State has the only neonatal nurse practitioner program in the state and produces about 10 to 15 graduates each year in its 22-month program. College of Nursing Assistant Dean Linda Lewandowski says she expects to train about 10 more through the 15-month program. Michigan hospitals are working with WSU to train their own nurses in the 15-month program. Sparrow Hospital in Lansing plans to help Wayne State pay for the increased cost of providing the accelerated program and will subsidize its nurses' incomes while they're in the program, according to Sandy Geller, a neonatal nurse practitioner and department practitioner and department manager for its neonatal intensive care unit.