Search results for "Workforce"
Simple conversations help strike staffing balance
A gradual shift toward value-based health care is putting a greater premium on the extra staff members who may be needed to achieve it, and there are simple ways for practices to make the staffing choices that are right for their practice and the real world.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/04/simple-conversations-help-strike-staffing-balance.htm
1 Apr 2019
Health is infrastructure, and infrastructure is health
President Joe Biden's $2-trillion infrastructure proposal includes not only funding for roads, airports, and bridges, but also funding to expand access to long-term care services and eliminate all lead pipes and service lines.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2021/06/health-is-infrastructure-and-infrastructure-is-health.htm
1 Jun 2021
ACP submits statement on the use of race in university admissions
A federal court ruled July 15 that race can be taken into consideration in university admissions.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2014/07/29/10.htm
29 Jul 2014
ACP offers 6 strategies for integrating behavioral health, primary care
The strategies were developed because behavioral and physical health care providers have a long history of operating in different care silos, according to a position paper.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2015/06/30/2.htm
30 Jun 2015
Congress' annual rite of passage to health care spending
ACP encourages Congress to consider end-of-year issues more fully, such as ensuring that Medicare payment cuts do not threaten primary care during what seems like an annual rite of passage.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2022/02/congress-annual-rite-of-passage-to-health-care-spending.htm
1 Feb 2022
Millennials, the same doctors in a changed environment
Some older physicians may peg millennials as entitled, self-centered, and lazy, lacking the dogged passion for medicine of generations before them. But those who teach them say that behavioral differences among this group may have more to do with environmental and individual factors than generational ones.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/10/millennials.htm
1 Oct 2016
New practice model evolves: ‘direct care’
Proponents of direct-pay practice models argue that such alternatives are a badly needed intervention for both doctors and patients frustrated by the limited care that can be provided in 15-minute intervals or less. Other physicians are concerned that such models could shut out lower-income patients, creating a 2-tiered health system and further straining an already overstretched primary care workforce.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2015/01/practice.htm
1 Jan 2015
Leadership Day attendees push legislators to finish SGR fix
Physicians and medical students representing ACP took to Capitol Hill to discuss the sustainable growth rate formula, workforce issues, and liability reform.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/07/leadership.htm
1 Jul 2014
Latest updates on ACP's priorities, initiatives
ACP Spotlight offers readers a look at ACP's current top priorities and initiatives, as well as highlights from our e-newsletter, ACP Internist Weekly.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/04/latest-updates-on-acps-priorities-initiatives.htm
1 Apr 2019
ACP members take the Hill to tackle SGR and sequestration
Senators and representatives heard directly from ACP members about pressing priorities in health care.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/07/leadership.htm
1 Jul 2013