Northwest Indiana hospitals are making efforts to recruit physicians amid a national shortage, The Times of Northwest Indiana reports.
Here are three things to know.
1. Hospital executives told The Times northwest Indiana is in need of primary care physicians, psychiatrists, dermatologists, urologists, rheumatologists, critical care doctors, neurologists, general surgeons and gastroenterologists.
2. While physician recruitment in the region — which has no children's hospitals or academic medical centers — can be challenging, Valparaiso, Ind.-based Porter Health Care System has recently hired a maternal and fetal medicine physician and a pediatric ear, nose and throat specialist, Porter CEO Steve Lunn said in the report.
3. Officials claim the region's medical residency consortium formed in January will also bring additional physicians to the region for their post-graduate training in 2019, which should help with the shortage, according to the report.