Underserved

"Healthcare providers awarded grants of as much as $500,000 to support physicians who practice medicine in underserved areas of New York state, officials say."

"Georgia Health Sciences University is helping eliminate health disparities by training students to mentor potential future health professionals in underserved areas."

"A severe physician shortage in rural California is just one reason that many farm workers don’t get health care. But in Stanislaus County, the Valley Consortium for Medical Education is taking on the shortfall with a boost from the federal health reform law."

"Governor Pat Quinn today announced $30.5 million from the capital program to build and renovate 14 community health centers throughout Illinois. The Illinois Jobs Now! funding will help the state to improve health outcomes for medically underserved Illinoisans, reduce health care spending and save taxpayers money. The projects are expected to create around 215 jobs."

"Dr. Patrick Bankston and the Indiana School of Medicine-Northwest are taking what makes the region unique and turning it into a curriculum for doctors, with hopes it may keep those doctors in the region."

"Assembly Member Ricardo Lara's (D-Bell Gardens) Assembly Joint Resolution 13 received bipartisan support in the Senate today with a 23-10 vote. AJR 13 urges the President and Congress to provide resources to increase the supply of physicians in California in order to improve access to care in underserved areas."

"'Man down in the men’s washroom!' This cry is not part of the usual hospital soundtrack, but when Dr. David A. Ansell heard it as he sped down a corridor in the old Cook County Hospital in Chicago, he barely broke stride. He veered into the men’s room, tried the locked door of the stall where a crumpled body lay, hoisted himself up over the fetid contents of the adjacent toilet, balanced on the metal divider and prepared to descend and administer CPR."

"David Ansell, MD, captures much of the story of 'County' in his recent book of the same name. It starts with his arrival as a new intern in 1978. He was part of a group of medical students from Upstate Medical School, the State University of New York medical school in Syracuse, he and 3 others in internal medicine and one in pediatrics."

"A Black man on the south side of Chicago will live 8 years less than the average white man in the US.  Much of this life expectancy gap is due to excess heart disease and cancer among Black men compared to whites.  This gap could be reduced with prevention, early detection and access to primary care.  The failures of the health care system in Chicago and in particular the gaping holes in the public health safety-net are partly to blame."