University of CA-Merced Launches Six Telemedicine Centers

Last week the University of California-Merced announced that it would be opening six telemedicine centers in underserved cities in the state’s San Joaquin Valley. Right now, these sites are among the area’s most rural and underserved communities, with one of the worst ratios of doctors to patients in the state at just one licensed physician for every 686 residents, compared with one physician for every 379 residents elsewhere.