$1.5 million donation creates pathways for undergraduate students and aesculapian schoolhouse residents
, /PRNewswire/ -- Today, LCMC Health announced a $1.5 million acquisition to Xavier University of Louisiana to make and clasp a divers doc workforce successful Louisiana. This acquisition volition enactment prime undergraduate students and aesculapian schoolhouse residents with nonstop fiscal assistance, making an contiguous interaction connected the diversification of Louisiana's healthcare workforce.
According to the National Academies, the fig of Black students successful science, engineering, and medicine successful the United States has remained disproportionately debased implicit the past respective decades. Several factors, including fiscal barriers, person contributed to these debased numbers. By providing nonstop fiscal assistance to Xavier students and alumni, LCMC Health volition assistance code this disparity.
"LCMC Health has a beardown past of supporting our communities with the champion imaginable care, which includes investing successful the healthcare leaders of tomorrow," said Greg Feirn, CEO of LCMC Health. "Since our inception, we've been committed to taking connected an progressive relation successful preparing young endowment to go the aboriginal of healthcare. Building connected our longstanding narration with Xavier University's College of Pharmacy, our aesculapian pathways programme volition grow our concern efforts, allowing america to code inequities that beryllium successful the doc workforce and expanding entree to high-quality acquisition and opportunities for students and young professionals."
LCMC Health has dedicated this acquisition successful grant of Xavier University's President Emeritus, Dr. Norman C. Francis, a civilian rights person and icon successful the satellite of higher education.
During Dr. Francis' 47 years arsenic president of Xavier, his alma mater, the school's enrollment astir tripled. The nation's lone Black Catholic assemblage became the starring shaper of Black undergraduates who implicit aesculapian schoolhouse and ranked archetypal nationally successful the fig of Black students earning undergraduate degrees successful biology and beingness sciences, chemistry, physics, and pharmacy. Dr. Francis is simply a U.S. Army seasoned and the archetypal Black postgraduate of Loyola University School of Law. As a civilian rights leader, helium showed motivation courageousness and imaginativeness by lodging the Freedom Riders astatine Xavier successful the 1960s and representing civilian rights activists arsenic a young lawyer. During his four-decade tenure arsenic Xavier's president, Dr. Francis advised 8 U.S. presidents and earned much than 40 honorary degrees. As a civic leader, helium co-founded Liberty Bank, wherever helium remains president of the board. Dr. Francis besides co-chaired the Louisiana Recovery Authority aft Hurricane Katrina, portion besides starring Xavier's hurricane betterment efforts.
With this donation, Xavier University and LCMC Health proceed the enactment of Dr. Francis with groundbreaking programs that destruct barriers and make pathways to success.
"Xavier's continued occurrence is champion achieved with partnerships and the fiscal enactment of bonzer and committed institutions similar LCMC Health," said Dr. Francis. "When organizations similar LCMC Health measurement up successful specified a meaningful way, Xavier students volition person an contiguous payment that volition marque it much financially feasible for them to participate and postgraduate from 2 prestigious aesculapian schools – Tulane and LSU – an bonzer pathway for Xavier students who are committed to practicing medicine successful Louisiana."
"We are thrilled and grateful that LCMC Health has honored Dr. Francis, and we are truthful excited for the talented pre-med students astatine Xavier who are beneficiaries of this bonzer gift. We look guardant to a continued narration with LCMC Health," said Justin Augustine, Chairman of Xavier University's Board of Directors.
LCMC Health's acquisition volition enactment 3 archetypal programs:
- $500,000 for the LCMC Health Medical Pathways Program which volition supply $15,000 to $20,000 successful scholarships to enactment outstanding students who whitethorn not different take a Pre-Med track.
- $500,000 for the LCMC Health Medical Pathways Fellowships to supply $10,000 to $20,000 successful postgraduate fellowships to exemplary Xavier Pre-Med students who person expressed volition to be and implicit aesculapian schoolhouse successful Louisiana, and yet signifier successful the state.
- $500,000 for the LCMC Health Medical Pathways Home Stipends aimed astatine supporting Xavier alumni who person completed aesculapian schoolhouse successful the U.S. and person been accepted into a residency programme with either LCMC Health, LSU School of Medicine, oregon Tulane School of Medicine.
Xavier University of Louisiana is simply a nationally-ranked Historically Black College and University (HBCU) that has a affluent past of guiding and nurturing students from undergraduate studies to postgraduate programs. LCMC Health is simply a increasing healthcare strategy that provides exceptional patient-centered attraction astatine world-class facilities, including world aesculapian centers successful concern with LSU and Tulane University. Together, the 2 section organizations person consistently invested successful the aboriginal of healthcare by enhancing education, expanding programming, and removing barriers to entree that plague the New Orleans community.
SOURCE LCMC Health
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