Medical Economics September 6, 2023
Success requires using home care team as extension of physician’s practice
Let’s start with some statistics that won’t surprise anyone who provides primary care. As a country, we are experiencing a massive shortage of health care professionals across the board. Nurses, doctors, you name it. A recent report from the Association of American Medical Colleges projected a shortage of between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians within roughly the next decade. The report suggests that we could be short almost 50,000 primary care physicians in this time span.
The study also said that if we wanted to ensure rural residents had the same access to care as urban populations, we would need to find an additional 180,000 doctors. In total, three out...
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