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Havana, Florida – for a rural community, was this town with a population of 1750 people more fortunate than most of them. The family doctor has practiced here thirty years ago.
But this ended in December when Mark Newpery, PhD, retired. To attract a new doctor, the Havana leaders have made advertisements for local newspapers, Features were published on social mediaAnd he warned the bowl with a medical office free of rent equipped with X-rays, an ultrasound machine, and a bone density scanner-all of which is owned by the city.
Local leaders hope that the recruitment campaign will help attract candidates amid a shortage of country in doctors.
“This is important to our society, in the same way that the gardens are considered important and good future planning is important,” said Kendra Wilcrson, director of the town of Havana.
According to the Florida Ministry’s Ministry of Health report, the doctor decreased It affects every part or part Of almost every province, but the less populated provinces, such as GADSDEN, where Havana is located, has fewer doctors per 10,000 people.
It is expected that the doctor’s lack of Florida will grow in the next decade, with One study The state is dropped at the state level of 18,000 doctors – including 6000 primary care doctors – by 2035.
“This is a huge and huge issue,” said Matthew Smillitzer, the administrative partner of Capstone Recruiting Advisors, a company that helps hospitals, doctors and other employers to find and employ doctors. “It may hit the most difficult small cities, just because most people prefer to live in an average or large society.”
In this difficult environment, the Havana leaders hope to make advertisements and privileges free of rent protruding and their small city and persuading the doctor to practice here.
Wilderson describes society, south of the borders of Georgia, as an ideal place for family education. Its rural roads are lined with farms, pastures and churches. Main Street Download Create includes ancient stores, gift stores, a public store and restaurants.
“All you imagine in Halmark is the place where we live,” Wilcson said. “People who still care and search for each other, and the neighbors are really friends.”
The presentation of generous incentives was how the city’s leaders got NewBerry in Havana in 1993. The city gave Newberry an initial deal similar to the one that it is now providing, and later began providing it with about $ 15,000 annually as financial support.
New Perber, who served about 2000 patients, refused to conduct interviews with them. “I just retire!” He said in an email, adding that “the city has chosen unconventional ways” to employ a doctor.
By supporting office spaces and using medical equipment to attract a doctor, Havana is looking for the needs of its residents.
Without a town doctor, some of the former Newpery patients now have to travel to Talhaasi, about 30 minutes by driving in the southeast of Havana. Others see Doctors in Queens, about 20 minutes’ drive away.
“Our hope is to return when we find a new doctor,” said the mayor of Havana Edi Bass.
Susan Faridin, the former city director, retired in 2006, that the presence of a local doctor was also important to meet the needs of low -income population in the city, and many of them are elderly. “Not everyone can reach Talhaasi to get a doctor,” she said. “Not everyone has transportation.”
But it remains to see whether the rental spaces and office equipment are sufficient to attract the doctor to Havana. The city’s recruitment campaign raised a lot of attention from nursing practitioners, but a few primary care doctors have applied for this position.
City leaders say they reserve the hope of finding a family doctor who can train and prescribe medications independently.
“We really prefer that we have a real doctor who can deal with everything for us,” Pass said.
Smileter, the doctor, said that the primary care doctors in special supply. He said that in his experience in his experience from Florida, Nortle Carolina, Tennessi and Tixas, among the places where doctors want to live and work, it takes an additional thing to persuade them to work in a small town.
“If someone wants to train in a small town, it is more likely that he goes to where they have links, whether it is, his wife or others,” he said.
Smileter said that the challenge facing the Havana community is that “there may be literally no one from that town that went to the Mid School. Or, if there was, it was that. But were they a preliminary care doctor?”
However, there is a silver lining. Smileter said that young doctors put a high value on a balance between work and life and significant relationships with their patients-the adjectives that may give an advantage for a small and independent practice.
He said: “We hear the quality of life, life and life at work much more in the three years to the past five than we have heard before, and this is nearly Lockstep with compensation in terms of what they focus on.”
This is the same values that New Peripery had to be practiced here. Until it became one of his patients.
“It was completely perfect, because it was not all about money, if you could imagine it. It was a different kind of doctors.”
Fortunately for Havana, the city recently received attention from the family medicine doctor who grew up here, went to the Faculty of Medicine, and is expected to finish the stay for 3 years in Talhaassee Memorial Healthcare in June.
Camron Browning, MD, He graduated in 2003 from Northwesid Havana Secondary School, to the city council consisting of seven members in an interview with him in December, that he was focusing on family medicine and that, during his stay, he saw thousands of patients, delivered children, and gained experience in the hospital.
He said, “My goal was able to go home and serve my head.”
Smileter said that the Havana incentives may be attractive to new doctors, such as Browning, who will face the costs of hard starting to create an independent practice.
After meeting December, the council voted unanimously to start contracting negotiations with Browning, who said he would plan to be ready to see patients as soon as possible after completing his stay.
“I am here to stay,” Broning told the council. “This was always my dream.”
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