Recruiting doctors

A recent study says New York State is going to experience a medical crisis in the future. According to a report by SUNY Albany, if hospitals don't start recruiting doctors to upstate New York soon, communities will suffer. Syracuse's hospitals are already short staffed.

Ronald Lagoe is the Executive Director of the planning agency for Syracuse's four local hospitals. He says right now there isn't an actual recruitment program for Central New York hospitals.

"When you talk about hospitals recruiting physicians a lot of it is very informal. It's a CEO meeting and a surgeon and looking and contacting somebody at another hospital..somebody in a residency program," said Ronald Lagoe.

Lagoe says if hospitals in central New York don't create an incentive to attract young professionals there will soon be a shortage in doctors.