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Practice Sights: State Primary Care Development Strategies

March 1, 2000 | Program Result Report

Uneven distribution of primary care physicians, as well as inadequate use of mid-level providers - physicians' assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurse midwives - creates barriers to access for many rural and inner city residents.

Study Identifies Approaches for Balancing the Mix of Generalists and Specialists in the Physician Workforce

May 1, 1998 | Program Result Report

From 1992 to 1997, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School conducted policy studies using different mathematical models designed to test the effects of these proposals.

An Ambitious Project Measuring Demand for Health Care Providers Scales Back, Discovering What Doesn't Work

October 1, 1998 | Program Result Report

Investigators at Abt Health Care Research Foundation in Cambridge, Mass., attempted to develop three new methods for measuring the demand for the services of generalist physicians and mid-level practitioners:

Nurse Practitioners and Physicians Assistants Handle Same Acute Care Activities as Doctors

July 22, 2002 | Program Result Report

The University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing compared the activities of midlevel practitioners, such as nurse practitioners and physician's assistants, with the activities of resident physicians.

Nursing Home Patients Fare Better with On-Staff Primary Care Providers

January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report

Health Research in Albany, N.Y., conducted a three-year demonstration project that examined differences in cost and quality among four alternative staffing models allowed under Medicaid for delivering primary care services in nursing homes.

Pennsylvania Improves Health Care for its Large Rural Population

March 1, 2000 | Program Result Report

Pennsylvania's Practice Sights program goals included improving recruitment and retention efforts, encouraging greater use of mid-level providers, and establishing new practice sites in underserved areas.

Idaho Tackles its Low Practicing-Physicians-to-Population Ratio

March 1, 2000 | Program Result Report

The Idaho Area Health Education Center served as the lead agency in a project to establish a community-development approach to the recruitment and retention of health care providers in its rural areas.

South Dakota Creates Regional Coordinated Care Networks to Improve Health Care

March 1, 2000 | Program Result Report

The South Dakota Department of Health addressed the decline in the number of its rural practice sites by creating four Regional Coordinated Care Networks to promote primary care linkages in underserved areas.

Practice Sights

January 1, 2003 | Book

In this chapter, Irene Wielawski, an award-winning journalist, the evaluator of the Foundation's Reach Out program, and a frequent contributor to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology series, examines this ambitious 10-state effort.

Nursing Home Residents Fare Better with a Dedicated Team of Medical Practitioners

January 1, 2002 | Program Result Report

A project team at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine, studied the long-term care being provided to nursing home residents using different models of HMO primary care.

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