Emergency rooms are often overcrowded, urgent care centers are readily available, and primary care doctors can be booked ...

With expected steep cuts to Medicaid, there’s a growing movement in Maine of primary care providers skipping insurance ...

A primary care physician practices general health care, dealing with a wide variety of health concerns for patients. They are typically the first person you talk to if you have a health issue.

In this “BVHS Minute,” meet the dedicated providers at Wellness Park Primary Care, a division of Blanchard Valley Health System: Angela Harden-Mack, MD; Amy Donnelly, APRN-CNP; Lindsay Hartman, ...

Increasing access to primary care in the face of a growing primary care physician shortage is a significant challenge, but it is crucial in improving health outcomes and equity, and in reducing costs.

In 2020, 3.6 percent of primary care physicians left the profession — higher than the national rate of 3.3 percent. And one third of primary care doctors were over the age of 60 that year, a ...

Primary care practices are getting hit hard by the loss of revenue during the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of the health crisis is forcing organizations to rethink how they operate.

The problems undermining primary care were exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report by the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit that supports research on health-care issues.But the ...

Building on the recommendations of a 1996 report by the Institute of Medicine, the new report, Implementing High-Quality Primary Care: Rebuilding the Foundation of Health Care, provides an ...

Likewise, the University of California-Davis (No. 22, with 36.3% of graduates in primary care) increased the percentage of students choosing family medicine from 12% in 2009 to 18% in 2023, even ...