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Fixing the Primary Care Crisis


All hands on deck needed to confront physician shortage crisis

About 83 million Americans live in areas that don't have sufficient access to a primary care physician. In large parts of Mississippi and ...

The Solution to America's Primary Care Crisis - Blogs HLTH

Yet, there is good evidence that primary care has the power to restore the health of our communities, close gaps in health equity, and drive ...

Fixing the Primary Care Crisis - The Journal of Health Design

Primary care in the United States is in crisis. Patients do not have enough time with their doctors and there is shortage of primary care physicians.

The Hidden Health Crisis: America's Physician Shortage is Slowly ...

A more sustainable solution involves advocating for improved compensation for primary care physicians. By addressing the financial disincentives ...

AMA outlines 5 keys to fixing America's rural health crisis

It's projected that the nation will be short as many as 87,000 physicians by 2036. On top of that, fewer college graduates from rural areas—who ...

How Can We Fix Primary Care? - Penn LDI

“Fewer people are reporting that they have a primary care physician to begin with, and this is especially true in marginalized populations. We ...

Fixing primary care - Medical Economics

The pandemic was seen by many as an opportunity to fix primary care. Two years later, the problems that existed before COVID-19 — and that were ...

Why we have a primary care crisis - and how we solve it

... Brownlee and primary care doctors Andy Lazris and Alan Roth lay out the reasons behind these major issues and a blueprint to start fixing them.

The physician shortage crisis—and how to fix it, Part I - YouTube

Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, is joined by AMA experts to discuss the impending physician shortage and how to fix it. Experts from the AMA include, ...

How We Can Solve The Physician Shortage In The U.S.

Primary care physician shortage is a national problem—these recommendations could be part of the solution ... Reforming scope-of-practice laws, increasing medical ...

Fixing the Primary Care Crisis - Modern Health Talk

Fixing the Primary Care Crisis ... Dr. Schimpff uses this book to show how to revitalize the patient-doctor relationship and to put decision-making back into the ...

Primary care in crisis amid physician shortage, underfunding

Declining to invest in primary care has caused Americans' average life expectancy to stagnate or decline, a new report shows.

Why primary care is in crisis-and how to fix it - Medical Economics

Insurers reimburse PCPs at low rates and do not appreciate the value of involved history taking, thorough examinations and the time spent ...

The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care - Harvard Business Review

We must shift the focus from the volume and profitability of services provided—physician visits, hospitalizations, procedures, and tests—to the patient outcomes ...

How to solve America's shortage of primary care doctors ...

The United States faces a serious shortage of primary care physicians for many reasons, but one, in particular, is inescapable: compensation.

Primary Care Disrupted - KFF Health News

Known as the “front door” to the health system, primary care is changing. Under pressure from increased demand, consolidation, and changing patient ...

Our primary healthcare system is a mess. I have a plan to fix it.

We cannot address the primary healthcare crisis unless we also address the major shortages that we have in our healthcare workforce.

Strategies to Improve Shortage of Primary Health Care - News-Medical

The capacity of each primary care practitioner can also be optimized to help minimize the effects of the shortage. There are two key determinants of the ...

What can publicly funded schools teach us about how to fix the ...

However, we have more family doctors than ever before, and in fact, the lack of primary care access is less about a shortage of physicians and more a need to ...

Lessons from Steward and the Need for Primary Care Reform in ...

Through a still-evolving series of action steps, this crisis will eventually resolve. When the fire has been put out, however, an important ...