Louisiana offers grant to keep docs in New Orleans
Posted by Sean Keating on June 11th, 2007. Filed under: medical profession, katrina, medical profession, student_loan_repayments.
Louisiana is trying to make serving post-Katrina New Orleans as attractive as possible to doctors, offering incentives of up to $100,000, including student loan repayments and income guarantees.
Many doctors have left the area citing the high cost of malpractice and business insurance and the large population of uninsured patients.
Grant program seeks to lure, keep doctors in post-Katrina N.O. [Via New Orleans Times-Picayune]
Grants aim to cure exodus of doctors [Via New Orleans Times-Picayune]
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