For the past 12 years, Delegate Sample Hughes has been working hard to develop legislation to improve the lives of her constituents. Although she has worked on legislation covering many facets of our lives, the success she has had with expanding medical care on the Shore deserves recognition.
Delegate Sample Hughes has sponsored legislation that provides dementia training for those who work with patients who have Alzheimer’s Disease and other types of dementia. She has also sponsored legislation to reduce co-pays for medical services, and much more. Most recently, she sponsored a bill (which passed into law) that will bring more physicians and physician assistants to the Eastern Shore.
The “Maryland Loan Assistance Program Repayment Program for Physicians and Physicians’ Assistants – Alterations” will enable the Maryland Department of Health (MDH) to offer student loan assistance to part-time physicians as well as part-time physicians’ assistants who make a two-year commitment to a rural or underserved area.
This is very good news for the Eastern Shore since so many of us have had to go across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to get medical care. It is also critical for us to address the physician shortage in Maryland. According to the Maryland Health Care Commission, Maryland will have to hire more than 1,052 primary care physicians by 2030 to meet current demands for primary care.
Delegate Sample Hughes has been extremely successful in passing legislation that will help her constituents. She is a gifted leader. In fact, Delegate Sample Hughes is now the Speaker Pro Tempore of our Maryland State House of Delegates. This is an extremely important position. It means that she acts for the Speaker of the House when she is unavailable.
Delegate Sheree Sample Hughes has accomplished a great deal to make our lives better. Those accomplishments are why I cast my vote for this candidate.
Susan Olsen
Cambridge
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