01.17.23
METAIRIE – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) spoke astatine a property league wherever Xavier University of Louisiana and Ochsner Health announced they volition make a associated College of Medicine. They volition signifier a non-profit corporation, make a caller program and utilize facilities and unit of some institutions to enactment the college. When established, it volition beryllium the 5th aesculapian schoolhouse successful Louisiana.
“Xavier and Ochsner are creating accidental for aboriginal aesculapian students, and accidental for amended wellness for those who these aboriginal doctors treat,” said Dr. Cassidy. “It is bully for our city, bully for our state, and bully for our nation.”
Cassidy was joined by Dr. C. Reynold Verret, President of Xavier University of Louisiana.
“I convey Senator Cassidy for his continuing support,” said Dr. Verret. “Senator Cassidy has advocated for the acquisition of much doctors and recognizes the request for diverseness and equity successful healthcare.”
According to Human Resources for Health, Louisiana is projected to person the 3rd worst shortage of physicians of immoderate authorities by 2030. Additionally, African-Americans lone relationship for 5% of physicians contempt comprising 13% of the U.S. population. A caller assemblage of medicine astatine Xavier volition people the 5th Historically Black College and University to person specified a school, and assistance Louisiana code its deficiency of physicians.
Currently, Xavier and Ochsner enactment unneurotic to supply objective grooming sites for Xavier’s pharmacy students. Ochsner besides supports Xavier’s Physician Assistant (PA) program, which graduated 37 students successful May 2022. Ochsner and Xavier besides enactment unneurotic to amended wellness equity done postgraduate programs successful the wellness sciences and via the Ochsner Health and Xavier University Institute for Health Equity and Research.
To enactment Xavier’s efforts, Cassidy introduced and passed into law the John Lewis National Institute connected Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Endowment Revitalization Act. This instrumentality increases investments successful schools conducting captious probe into number wellness disparities.
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