Why Medical Manpower Has Been A Recurring

For a while now the people of Huntingdon County have known for some time that the community needs doctors, it is only recently that they began to consider that doctors also need the community. One way to convince people to work there is to present the community as an attractive, desirable place to live Doctors want to be sure that they will be able to fi

nd good schools, adequate housing, friendly neighbors, and other cultural, recreational and social opportunities to fulfill their needs. The recruitment of physicians to the area has long been a chief priority of the medical staff, board of trustees, and administration of the JC Blair Memorial Hospital.

By experience the most successful kind of recruiting involves an effort by the entire community. Case in point, the past few years saw an unprecedented number of new physicians added to both the hospital staff and the outlying medical centers. The recruitment process will be ongoing as long as the improvements are not met yet.

These days almost every place has a shortage of medical professionals even in Huntingdon County. The news was noted to have said that the Huntingdon County was a medically underserved community. A criterion was made by The Department of Health, Education and Welfare. To determine if a place in medically underserved Per community one Index of Medical Underservice is assigned. This is a rating system that has the following categories: the percentage of the population below poverty level, the percentage of the population over 65, the percentage of infant mortality, and the number of primary care physicians per every thousand members of the population.