Met yesterday with the folks at the South Carolina Area Health Education Consortium, an MUSC based group that tries to promote improved healthcare in rural areas. They offer a limited number of $70,000 grants over three years to physicians who want to practice in rural or underserved areas.
Somehow $70,000 spread over three years does not seem like much in the world of physician income and expenses.
Also, despite the fact that rural South Carolinians face major healthcare problems, our state government has cut funding for this MUSC group by half since 2008. So much for the state’s focus on rural healthcare.
