KMEX interviewed some of L.A. Care's medical school scholarship recipients and Roland Palencia, Director of Community Benefit, in a piece (in Spanish) about Elevating the Safety Net, a new $31 million initiative.
Elevating the Safety Net targets the growing shortage of primary care physicians that threatens the Los Angeles County safety net — those facilities and practices that serve the uninsured, Medi-Cal members and other vulnerable populations.
The initiative is comprised of three grant programs. One will provide medical school loan repayments to physicians recruited to work in L.A. County's safety net. Another will provide grants to safety net clinics and private practices for salary subsidies, sign-on bonuses and/or relocation costs for such recruits. The third is a Scholarship Program, through which eight students are receiving full medical school scholarships of up to $350,000.
Learn more about the scholars and L.A. Care's Elevating the Safety Net Initiative.