Becker's Hospital Review

Sentara’s home-based primary care model, explained

Sentara home-based primary care improves access and cuts emergency visits for vulnerable patients in Norfolk, Va.
Forbes

Making Primary Care The Primary Focus Of Our Health Care System

Greater use of primary care services has long been associated with better health, better care, and lower costs. But policies in support of primary care are not commensurate with their potential ...

MetroHealth primary care providers rally for union recognition

MetroHealth primary care providers and their supporters held a rally outside the hospital, Tuesday evening, saying they want ...
Forbes

Primary Care: Why It’s Important And How To Increase Access To It

Primary care is crucial for improving health outcomes and lowering overall healthcare costs. According to a 2021 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “People in ...
Community Impact

Why doctor visits feel incomplete—and how a Prosper clinic is redefining primary care, medical aesthetics

Discover how Radi.8 PrimaCare and MedSpa in Prosper is changing healthcare with personalized primary care, hormone optimization, medical weight loss and natural-looking aesthetics for patients across ...
Health Affairs

The Changing Landscape Of Primary Care: Effects Of The ACA And Other Efforts Over The Past Decade

Providing high-quality primary care is key to improving health care in the United States. The Affordable Care Act sharpened the emerging focus on primary care as a critical lever to use in improving ...

2017 to 2023 saw decrease in primary care visit rates, access in older adults

Across Medicare beneficiaries, primary care visit rates and access decreased from 2017 to 2023, and telemedicine accounted ...
Health Affairs

Rural And Nonrural Primary Care Physician Practices Increasingly Rely On Nurse Practitioners

The use of nurse practitioners (NPs) in primary care is one way to address growing patient demand and improve care delivery. However, little is known about trends in NP presence in primary care ...
UUHC Health Feed

Finding a Primary Care Provider

There are many types of physicians and care providers at University of Utah Health, but the doctor that every patient should have is a primary care provider (PCP). A primary care provider could be: a ...
Erie News Now

Erie OB/GYN, Primary Care Finalize Highmark Agreement

OB/GYN Associates of Erie and Primary Care Associates of Erie have finalized a new agreement with Highmark Blue Shield, ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Hartford Healthcare partners with CVS on primary care

HealthCare is collaborating with CVS Health’s MinuteClinic, the walk-in clinics located inside CVS pharmacy stores, to offer in-network adult primary care services at all 20 Connecticut MinuteClinic ...

CT health care system launching major collaboration to broaden primary care access across state

For Dr. Prem Kumar, president of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group, the launch of a new collaboration that will bring in-network adult primary care to Connecticut MinuteClinic locations is about ...