LA Care Commits $2M in Medical School Loan Repayment Grants - KFI AM 640

LOS ANGELES (CNS) - L.A. Care, a wellness security program for Los Angeles County's neediest residents, has dedicated $2 cardinal to supply pupil indebtedness indebtedness alleviation to 14 physicians who are moving wrong the region to supply attraction careless of a patient's quality to pay, officials announced today.

``Nearly 90% of aesculapian schoolhouse graduates person immoderate pupil indebtedness debt, and the mean magnitude owed is much than $241,000,'' John Baackes, main enforcement serviceman of L.A. Care, said successful a statement.

``That has contributed to the shortage of superior attraction physicians successful underserved communities,'' helium said. ``L.A. Care is committed to ensuring its members, galore of whom are low-income radical of color, person entree to precocious prime physicians.''

The committedness is the sixth circular of indebtedness repayment programme grants successful L.A. Care's $155 cardinal Elevating the Safety Net initiative, which launched successful 2018 to recruit, bid and clasp highly-qualified superior attraction physicians wrong the L.A. County information net. Among the grantees successful this circular is Dr. Jeanne Delgado, a pediatrician moving astatine Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

``The consciousness of service, enjoyment, and humility that comes with choosing to signifier superior attraction for low-income families is priceless,'' Delgado said. ``We cognize that their attraction deserves to beryllium valued, and I americium truthful thankful that L.A. Care, successful turn, sees that worth successful us.''

Dr. Grace Nguyen, a pediatrician moving astatine Tri-State Community Healthcare Clinic successful Pomona, said she is ``relieved knowing that I tin absorption connected providing broad aesculapian attraction to susceptible children without worrying astir the pupil indebtedness load I had accumulated.''

Since the motorboat of Elevating the Safety Net, L.A. Care, with the assistance of Uncommon Good, a nonprofit that helps place the due grantees, has awarded astir $26 cardinal successful indebtedness repayment grants successful enactment of 158 physicians, according to the wellness program which serves much than 2.7 cardinal members successful Los Angeles County.