Politico September 13, 2024
PROBLEM SOLVERS
How health systems fare in the coming decades will hinge on how they handle a huge rise in demand fueled by a larger population of older Americans.
How’s that? Dan Liljenquist, chief strategy officer at Intermountain Health, the Salt Lake City-based system with 33 hospitals and hundreds of clinics, told Daniel that health systems face perhaps the largest demographic shift in U.S. history, with a huge number of patients getting older and developing more complex conditions.
That’s made for increasing demand, even as the supply of care hasn’t kept up, and the imbalance is likely to get worse, he said.
The current appointment wait times — sometimes six months to see a doctor — might soon be seen...
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