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Committee hears bills to expand primary-care workforce: loan repayment, NP residencies and Medicaid GME support
Summary
The Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers and health center leaders urged support for bills to extend loan-repayment eligibility to more health‑center staff, expand NP residencies and restore Medicaid graduate medical education funding to grow community-based primary-care capacity and retain clinicians in underserved areas.
BOSTON — The committee heard a panel of community health center leaders and residency directors pressing for three related workforce bills: a primary care workforce-development and loan-repayment grant program (H.1410/S.891), a state community health center NP residency statute (discussed earlier), and restoration of Medicaid graduate medical education (GME) support for community-based residency training.
Catherine O’Reilly of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers told members that health centers…
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