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Appropriations committee approves roughly $2 million to reimburse rural health recruits
Summary
The Joint Committee on Appropriations voted 17-0 to pass House Bill 1047 as amended, approving roughly $2 million in general funds to reimburse health-care professionals who completed South Dakota rural recruitment assistance programs.
Pierre — The Joint Committee on Appropriations approved House Bill 1047 as amended on a 17-0 vote, moving roughly $2 million in general funds to reimburse health-care professionals who completed the state’s rural recruitment assistance programs.
The bill, presented by Emily Kiel, division director of health care access at the South Dakota Department of Health, would appropriate $1,600,000 to reimburse clinicians recruited under the Department’s rural recruitment assistance program and, as amended, an additional $402,500 to reimburse 56 eligible health-care professionals under the facility recruitment assistance program. "So with that, Mister…
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