Assiniboine Community College (ACC) plans to work with communities that have been awarded the practical nursing programs.

Portage la Prairie, Melita and Dauphin have been named host sites.

Karen Hargreaves is dean of health and human services at ACC.

Hargreaves says each site can handle up to 25 students.

She notes there always more demand than spaces available and a lottery system will be used to select the students.

The first course starts this September in Portage la Prairie.