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Area Health Education Centers: Tackling Rural Maine's Health Care Workforce Shortage
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Maine Public Health Association
In the latest installment of our series looking at federal policy decisions that will impact Maine, Matt speaks with Jolene Luce, BSHA, Program Director for Western Area Health Education Center (AHEC). Jolene shares details about the critical shortage of health care workers in rural Maine, and how AHEC, a federally funded program through HRSA, is working to recruit and retain more medical professionals to live and work in rural Maine.
*This Healthy Maine Talks episode is supported by the New England Public Health Training Center*