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Rural healthcare: how to recruit and retain health professionals.
Hilda R. Heady, Debra Phillips, Elizabeth Briggs
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Abstract
A major challenge for healthcare in the United States is recruiting and retaining health professionals in rural areas of the country. There is a significant shortage of physicians and other health professionals in many of these areas. This article outlines some of the factors that go into recruiting health professionals to practice in rural communities, and what factors are influential in making sure they remain in service to those communities.