Welcome
The Southern Rural Access Program is designed to help improve
access to basic healthcare in eight of the most rural, medically
underserved states in the country. The program supports work to
increase the supply of primary care providers in underserved areas,
strengthen the health care infrastructure and build capacity at
the state and community level to address healthcare problems. To
achieve these goals the program is focusing on rural health leadership
development; recruitment and retention of primary healthcare providers;
rural health network development; and revolving loan fund development.
The Southern Rural Access Program is funded by The
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and administered by the Penn
State College of Medicine. The Foundation has awarded $32.8 million
to date for grant making, technical assistance, administration
and program evaluation for this effort to improve access to care
in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South
Carolina, East Texas and West Virginia. The Claude Worthington
Benedum Foundation provides additional matching support for the
West Virginia project and other local and regional philanthropies
provide varying levels of support to program components in each
of the eight states.
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