The Doctors Across New York Program awards funding to recruit and retain physicians in underserved areas through salary enhancements, sign-on bonuses, loan repayment and other direct payments to physicians. Physicians participating in Doctors Across New York make a multi-year service commitment to practice in an underserved area in the state.
The grants were awarded to Ellis Hospital in Schenectady for family medicine; Nathan Littauer Hospital Association in Gloversville for urology; Alseny Balde, MD, in the Bronx for family medicine; FLH Medical in Geneva for psychiatry; and Geneva General Hospital for general surgery.
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