Dr. Michael Mesisca faced a tall order. As the chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Riverside University Health System, he needed to recruit doctors to work at Palo Verde Hospital in Blythe, along Interstate 10 near the California-Arizona state line, 110 miles away from the Coachella Valley.
Melissa Daniels reported this story while participating in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2026 California Health Equity F…
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