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H+H's efforts to improve physician recruitment, including loan repayment programs
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Dr. Katz highlights H+H's initiatives to attract and retain physicians, with a focus on innovative compensation methods like loan repayment programs.
- H+H has implemented a loan repayment plan for behavioral health professionals, funded by private donations
- The loan repayment program aims to recruit effectively from the communities that H+H serves
- This initiative particularly benefits individuals from lower-income backgrounds who typically have larger student loans
- The program is seen as a way to improve recruitment in hard-to-staff areas like behavioral health
Mitch Katz
0:24:43
We do work hard, to try to find other ways of compensating people, and one of the things that I'm proudest of is that through, generous private, donations, we've been able to put together a loan repayment plan for behavioral health, which is one of the hardest areas for us to recruit.
0:25:05
I love, loan repayment because it enables us to recruit effectively from the communities that our patients serve, the people who typically have the largest loans, so people who grew up in lower income settings, and so being able to provide them, that additional loan repayment.
0:25:27
So, I wanna close and say that, I've been involved in my, 30 years, with a lot of union negotiations.