Peach State Health Plan Announces Partnership With Medical College Of Georgia To Address Rural Physician Shortage
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AUGUSTA, Ga., March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Peach State Health Plan (PSHP) and the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) at Augusta University announced an official partnership to address the state's critical rural physician shortage, which is leaving thousands of Georgia families without access to consistent, quality, and affordable healthcare. PSHP presented a $5.2 million grant to help fund MCG 3+, an accelerated medical school curriculum that has been developed to recruit, train, and place more primary care physicians in underserved communities around Georgia.