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The Georgia Health Careers Clearinghouse is supported by several
partners:
- Georgia Statewide AHEC
Network Office
- A partnership coordinated between Medical College of Georgia
and Mercer University School of Medicine, the Georgia Statewide
AHEC Network is a complex, multi-disciplinary effort which responds
to the problems of health professionals supply and distribution
in rural and underserved areas of the state.
Since 1984, the Georgia Statewide AHEC Network has represented
a growing partnership of health providers, health professions
students, educators, state agencies, and communities joined
together with a commitment to resolve these problems through
educational support to health professionals in the field, both
as students and as practitioners.
Georgia is served by six AHEC Centers:
- Georgia Nurses Association
- Founded nearly a century ago for the purpose of uniting our
profession, GNA is the state's largest professional nursing
association for registered nurses in all practice settings.
GNA has provided enormous support to advance the profession
as a whole and nurses as individuals.
- Georgia
Department of Community Health
- Created in 1999, the Department of Community Health is the
lead planning agency for all health issues in the state such
as health care policy, purchasing and regulation. The department
is responsible for:
- Insuring nearly 2 million people;
- Maximizing the state’s health care purchasing power;
- Planning coverage for uninsured Georgians;
- Coordinating health planning for state agencies.
- Georgia
Board for Physician Workforce
- The Georgia Board for Physician Workforce works to meet the
physician workforce needs of Georgia communities through medical
education programs.
The specific duties of the board are to:
- Monitor and evaluate the supply and distribution of physicians
by specialty and by geographical location to identify underserved
areas of the state that need physicians;
- Approve and allocate state appropriations for family practice
training programs;
- Approve and allocate state appropriations for pediatric
training programs;
- Coordinate activities with other state, federal, and private
entities to increase the number of graduating physicians
who remain in Georgia to practice (with an emphasis on medically
underserved areas).
- Mercer University
Medical Library & Peyton T. Anderson Learning Resources
Center
- The Mercer Medical Library & LRC supports the AHEC network
and serves as the administrative home for the Georgia Interactive
Network for Medical Information[GaIN], a non-profit, university-based
electronic health care information network offering a wide range
of information services to member health care individuals and
institutions.
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