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Healthcare workforce board highlights residency expansion, loan‑repayment awards and new tracking methods
Summary
The Georgia Board of Healthcare Workforce told lawmakers it is funding residency capitation slots, redirecting existing funds to rural surgery and psychiatry slots, and will award roughly 170 loan‑repayment grants for FY26; the board said it now tracks graduates using NPI numbers and raised five‑year retention expectations from 45% to 55%.
Chet Bessin, executive director of the Georgia Board of Healthcare Workforce, told the House appropriations subcommittee the board is focusing on expanding graduate medical education (GME) and on loan‑repayment incentives to improve physician retention in rural areas.
Bessin said the board redirects existing funds to support rural surgery and child/adolescent psychiatry slots and administers capitation funding for…
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