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Primary Care in 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 ...

'Primary care is in crisis' – 2024 scorecard outlines just how bad it is ...

Milbank Memorial Fund, Physicians Foundation, Robert Graham Center of AAFP analyze the state of primary care in America.

Primary care in crisis amid physician shortage, underfunding

A new report shows that a physician shortage and lack of investment in primary care has caused Americans' average life expectancy to ...

U.S. primary care crisis worsens - Medical Economics

The primary care crisis in the United States is deteriorating, driven by a clinician shortage and chronic underinvestment in the sector.

Primary Care in Crisis: New Scorecard Reveals Sector Struggling to ...

The second national Primary Care Scorecard released today reveals an intensifying primary care crisis and identifies five reasons why access to affordable, ...

Shortage in primary care clinicians eroding patient trust : Shots - NPR

Now, a nationwide shortage of doctors and other professionals who provide primary care is making it hard to find replacements. And as patients ...

The Hidden Crisis in Primary Care - U.S. News & World Report

Too few US medical school students are choosing to go into primary care, and the current primary care physician workforce is not growing fast enough.

Overworked and Undervalued: Unmasking Primary Care Physicians ...

There is an undeniable crisis in primary care around the globe, and the U.S. is no exception. We cannot expect to receive the highest-quality ...

Closing the Primary Care Gap: How Community Health Centers Can ...

A trend of rural hospital closures and a worsening shortage of primary care providers are driving the crisis, leaving one-third of the U.S. ...

AMA president sounds alarm on national physician shortage

Ehrenfeld, M.D., MPH, spotlighted the growing national physician shortage and corresponding health system in crisis. ... primary care physician.

The Global Primary Care Crisis - PMC - NCBI

The primary care crisis is a global one. The pandemic has stretched all systems and workforce shortages are a near universal problem.

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

In this model, primary care providers (PCPs) step away from fee-for-service insurance billing, which brings with it administrative burden, ...

Why is it so challenging to find a primary care physician?

As our entire health care system struggles, it is more difficult to get patients into the emergency department, into the hospital, and scheduled ...

Stressed Out and Burned Out: The Global Primary Care Crisis

A new Commonwealth Fund survey finds that a majority of primary care doctors in the US and other high-income countries say they are burned out and stressed.

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

The shortage of primary care clinicians can be attributed to many things – low number of residency slots, the salary gap between primary care doctors and ...

We were inspired to become primary care physicians ... - STAT News

The pressure on primary care is mounting: to coordinate care for an aging population beset by chronic disease, to improve the overall wellness ...

We ask too much of primary care doctors. 26.7 hours a day, to be ...

Primary care is in crisis. Doctors need better pay and more administrative help to ease their paperwork burden.

We Need Bolder Actions to Take On Our Primary Care Crisis - MHQP

Primary care is in critical condition and deteriorating quickly. Access to primary care is now severely limited and spending for primary care is in a sharp ...

Addressing the Primary Care Workforce Crisis - PMC

As insurance coverage expands across the country, the foundation of our healthcare system—a strong and accessible base of primary care providers—is being ...

Is Direct Primary Care the Solution to Our Health Care Crisis? - AAFP

Direct primary care (DPC), a reformulation of concierge medicine, has intrinsic appeal to overburdened physicians.