There is an increasing shortage of doctors in the rural communities of the San Joaquin Valley in California. Lisa Morehouse reports on a new program aimed at bringing new doctors to the area…and keeping them there.

Photo courtesy of  Lisa Morehouse

 Lisa Morehouse is an award-winning independent public radio and print journalist, who’s filed for KQED’s The California Report, NPR’s Latino USA and All Things Considered, Edutopia magazine and McSweeney’s. Her reporting has taken her from Samoan traveling circuses to Mississippi Delta classrooms to the homes of Lao refugees in rural Iowa.  She’s currently working on After The Gold Rush: The Future of Rural California, an audio documentary website and series. A former public school teacher, Morehouse also works with at-risk youth to produce radio diaries.