Even for a healthy person with private insurance living in a major metropolitan area, finding a primary care physician who is taking new patients can be a lengthy ordeal. When one is found, a typical ...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, primary care is the cornerstone of effective patient management. With the advent of ...

(Reuters Health) - A growing number of nurse practitioners are providing primary care in rural and low-income U.S. communities where the physician workforce is shrinking, a new study suggests.

“Those ‘three days’ are often 12- to 14-hour shifts on their feet and this statement overlooks the long days and physically ...

Primary care is in high demand, but the ongoing physician shortage leaves plenty of access gaps. One solution? Harnessing the skills of nurse practitioners in underserved areas, according to a new ...

For many patients, seeing a nurse practitioner has become a routine part of primary care, in which these “NPs” often perform the same tasks that patients have relied on doctors for. But NPs in ...

Nurse-researchers at South Dakota State University are helping rural clinics more fully utilize registered nurses in primary care and have expanded the nursing curriculum to better prepare students to ...

The pandemic has taught us about an economic and logistic concept that most people take for granted, if they’ve even thought about it at all: the global supply chain. Beginning early in the Covid-19 ...

The Rural Healthcare Transformation Program is providing $50 billion in aid to struggling rural health care facilities over ...

Personnel costs ($90,514) of a primary care–embedded adolescent behavioral health nurse practitioner over 2 years were 63% of the potential revenue generated ($144,449). Objectives: To determine the ...

New Jersey is projected to face a shortage of physicians in coming years. In fact, the problem is particularly dire in the Garden State — with a projected shortage of more than 1,000 physicians. New ...