Idaho has a shortage of primary care physicians, especially in rural areas. Our state needs innovative solutions to attract and retain doctors to help keep us healthy. https://ow.ly/461250SbWFO
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Interested read.. highlighting the evolving landscape of primary care and the necessary steps for progress. She emphasised the need for growth in the GP workforce and the integration of diverse clinical roles, such as clinical pharmacists and primary care dementia nurses, she underscores a multifaceted approach to healthcare. Ms. Pritchard's vision for a modernized primary care system is crucial. She advocates for making it easier for practices to balance urgent demands with community and preventative care, ensuring high-quality, patient-centric healthcare closer to home. Her call for ambition and innovation in tackling health inequalities, as seen in Manchester, is inspiring and sets a benchmark for primary care teams nationwide. The three-legged stool metaphor—recruit, retain, and reform—is particularly poignant. It's a reminder that comprehensive improvement in primary care requires a balanced approach, addressing all three aspects simultaneously. As we look to the future, Ms. Pritchard's insights serve as a guiding light for the ongoing transformation of primary care services. #HealthcareInnovation #PrimaryCare #GPWorkforce #CommunityHealth #PatientCare #HealthcareReform
A 'modern vision' needed to 'take patients with us' in primary care
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Marianne Amoss and I talk about federal rulemaking activities on organ transplants and nursing facility staffing levels on the latest Health Affairs This Week. https://lnkd.in/er8BDwAG
Health Affairs This Week: Following the Rules: Nursing Facilities Staffing and Organ Transplants on Apple Podcasts
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Gist Weekly from Kaufman Hall: May 24, 2024 - What happened in #healthcare recently—and what we think about it. -hims & hers unveils $199 weight-loss shots. -CMS launches an emergency care complaint portal. -Senate Finance Committee signals interest in #Medicare physician payment reforms. -Comparing the cost-effectiveness of two #weightlosstreatments. -Plus: What we’ve been reading, Graphic of the Week and On the Road. https://lnkd.in/gcptEtgQ
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As per the Ontario College of Family Physicians, an imminent wave of retirements among family doctors is anticipated. This, compounded by insufficient new physicians entering family medicine, leads to a gap unable to fulfill the needs of a growing population. In Toronto alone, half a million residents find themselves without a family doctor, underscoring the mounting severity of the #healthcare crisis. At Healtheon, we envision a future where accessing primary care is seamless and patients have ample time with healthcare professionals. Click to learn more about this pressing issue: https://buff.ly/4dtHPgh #Healtheon #HealtheonCanada #CanadianHealthcare #AccessToCare #Accessibility #HealthcareInnovation #HealthTech #DisruptingHealthcare #HealthcareForAll #HealthcarePartnership #BetterTogether #HealthcareCommunity #Teamwork #ImprovedHealthOutcomes #PatientAdvocacy #PatientCare #HealthcareIndustry #Wellbeing #HealthcareTech
Half a million people in Toronto don't have a family doctor, college says | CBC News
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Evidence-based policymaking is essential. This article sheds light on the challenges of workforce data used to drive billions of dollars in federal funding for primary care and how excluding PAs and APNs from the data may result in misallocation of resources. It also provides examples of how Colorado has led the nation in mitigating these challenges. Thanks Jenny Albertson for sharing! #evidencebasedpolicymaking #healthcare #datadrivenpolicymaking #primarycare American Academy of Physician Associates, American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Steve Holloway, Renise Walker, Barbara "Bobbie" Wolfe, Bridget Frazier https://lnkd.in/gY2yyDVi
Where Are the Nation’s Primary Care Providers? It’s Not an Easy Answer - KFF Health News
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"Idahoans are waiting weeks to see primary care doctors, months to get into a specialist, and procedures are postponed as financial challenges force the closure of clinics and services." Healthcare shortages are a serious concern across the country. Fortunately, every Idahoan has the power to support solutions that will provide our communities with the care we need. Read more to see how you might be affected by the health care shortage and how you can be a champion for solutions. https://lnkd.in/gWcPsAJf #investinginidaho #workforcedevelopment
Guest commentary: A resilient Idaho requires investments in our healthcare workforce
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The ER: The New PCP and PA Over the weekend, I had a minor incident that required non-emergent, but acute medical care. I first contacted the local urgent care facility, but they did not accept walk ins and they were booked. My only alternative was to go to the local hospital ER. I was seated near the admission desk, so I could hear the presenting reasons for subsequent patients. I am comfortable saying that, for all except one patient, the ER was totally inappropriate as an access point. I spoke with the nurses and PA once I was seen, and they commented that 70% of the ER visits at this hospital were not suitable for this setting. They further commented that most patients cannot readily get in to see their primary care physician and that (as I learned) urgent care centers are often inaccessible. I have written over the past seven years that we are going to face a crisis regarding medical care access by 2030. There is a tremendous shortage of nurses, allied health personnel and doctors (as well as a misallocation by specialty of the latter). This is occurring at a time of the greatest demand for medical services due to the aging of the baby boomers (and the attendant demand for increased care by older people) and the widespread prevalence of chronic diseases, which further tax the system. In order to assuage the crisis (it is too late to prevent it), we must significantly train thousands more healthcare workers, at all levels, over the next 5 years. Currently, a primary care visit often consists of a 30 minute discussion of only one presenting complaint with the doctor's back to the patient as he/she types. In five years, with no improvements, access to a primary care physician will likely be replaced by a physician's assistant or nurse practitioner, who will be responsible for patient triage based on symptomatology. "Concierge medicine" will become more widely used by wealthier people, as they try to avoid the waiting and maintain physician contact. Our two tier system of healthcare will devolve into a three tier system, with a lower quality of care for the majority, just as the needs increase. I only wish an influential person could get me in front of Congress (I am guessing elected officials will not be subject to the crisis personally) to explain the upcoming scenario. #healthcare #doctorshortage #nurseshortage #UShealthcarecrisis
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In full practice authority states, NPs can help meet patients’ needs in underserved communities — but not Pennsylvania. By placing practice restrictions on our valuable NP workforce, Pennsylvania is missing out on the many proven benefits of full practice authority: 🏥 Full practice authority would increase direct patient care by a full additional week of access — that's the equivalent of 109 additional patients per NP each year! 🏥 Full practice authority laws reduce care-amenable deaths by 12 per 100,000 individuals, with the largest reductions in rural areas. 🏥 Diabetic patients receive better, less costly care after their states lift practice restrictions on NPs, with rural patients seeing the most significant benefits. It's clear that full practice authority benefits all patients, especially in underserved and rural communities — now it's Pennsylvania's turn. #NursePractitioners #FullPracticeAuthority #PatientOutcomes #AccessToCare #HealthcareSolution #CareForPA
David Mitchell: Nurse practitioners can solve rural health care shortages
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A study from Michigan Medicine underscores the critical need to increase the number of primary care providers practicing in #underserved areas. “The primary care provider shortage is a key piece in accessing care, because if you have no access to primary care, that impacts your access to specialists." https://ow.ly/hbvy50QZN38 #healthequity #primarycare #ruralhealth #providershortage
Primary care scarcity linked to more surgical emergencies, problems
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Premier of NB, MLA for Quispamsis, and PCNB Leader | Premier ministre du N-B, député de Quispamsis, et chef du Parti PC du Nouveau-Brunswick
Today we’re happy to announce a re-elected PC government will expand the roles of nurse practitioners, paramedics, and pharmacists for faster, better health care across New Brunswick. This change represents another innovation and critical step forward to improve health care. Here’s our progress in only six years: • Health investments up almost $1 billion per year • 120+ new doctors, 1000+ new nurses • 40% increase in nurse practitioners • Decreased wait times in primary care by 70% thanks to NB Health Link and Evisit NB • 57 new collaborative health care clinics with more to come • Reduced hip and knee surgery wait times significantly There is much more to do but we stand by our record after inheriting a fiscal crisis and an underfunded broken healthcare system from the Liberals. The choice is clear on healthcare. Continue making innovative and meaningful progress for patients or go back to overpromising, foolish spending and our health care going backwards under the Liberals. Let’s keep building.
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