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State health workforce board outlines loan-repayment spending, capital requests for Mercer and Morehouse
Summary
A representative of the Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce presented the governor—s amended recommendations including consolidation of loan-repayment accounting, a small administration reduction, and $25 million requests each for Mercer School of Medicine and Morehouse School of Medicine building projects.
A representative for the Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce briefed the Appropriations Subcommittee for Health on the governor—s amended recommendations for the board—s programs, focusing on loan repayment, data publication requirements under HB 1013, and two capital requests.
The presenter said the agency is administratively attached to the Department of Community Health and administers loan-repayment awards for clinicians (physicians, dentists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and, recently, nurse faculty). The governor—s recommendations include an administrative reduction of $120,000 tied to HB 1013 online dataset work and internal reclassification of $250,000 to keep loan-repayment funds consolidated within a "Physicians for Rural Areas" program—an accounting move the presenter said does not create new net funds.
Capital requests: The presentation listed a $25,000,000 recommendation for replacement and expansion of the Mercer School of Medicine building and a separate $25,000,000 recommendation for a new academic building for the Morehouse School of Medicine.
Data and operations: The board representative said the agency publishes workforce supply-and-distribution data (physicians, dentists, pharmacists and more) and is developing an expanded platform to include nursing and optometry data, in part to satisfy HB 1013 requirements.
Ending: The presenter invited committee questions and said the board expects to make its first behavioral health loan-repayment awards later in the week.
