The Greater Baton Rouge Business Report, August 13th, 2002
Former Gov. Buddy Roemer and a group of concerned Louisiana citizens have chimed in on efforts to improve rural health care in Louisiana and to attract country doctors to practice in underserved areas. In a letter to business leaders, Roemer said a new citizens group is working with Mercer Unity of Macon, Ga., as a model to improve access to primary care medicine in rural areas and small towns. "Louisiana has a measurable shortage" of primary care physicians, Roemer wrote in a letter dated Aug. 5. "We now need to raise the $1 million in seed capital necessary to make our dream happen." To t...
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