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Les Stukenberg/The Daily CourierSherril Longmuir, owner of Yavapai Healthcare Academy, a certified nursing assistant school, shows one of the two simulated hospital rooms that students use at the school. A mannequin named Grandma Chase sits in the corner.

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PRESCOTT VALLEY - Sherril Longmuir, a registered nurse who has worked in the field since 1984, has chosen a growth industry for a new business venture: a school to train certified nursing assistants, or CNAs.Longmuir said she decided to open Yavapai Healthcare Academy here because she realized a number of her students at a CNA school where she taught in the Phoenix area commuted from Northern Arizona. An aging population also has created more demand for CNAs and other health-care workers.

March 22, 2011