Jefferson Health in Philadelphia launched a virtual primary care program in late 2024 to address one of healthcare’s biggest access challenges: a shortage of primary care appointments. Less than two ...

Rural primary care is strained by clinician shortages, limited access, and financial instability, impacting health outcomes and increasing emergency department reliance. National initiatives like the ...

If we are serious about long-term health care cost control and outcomes, we must shift more resources to primary care.

The Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, is launching the Building Bridges to Better Health: A Primary Health Care Challenge. The national ...

Dr. Richard Conn is well-­­versed in the challenges of providing health care in rural areas. The primary care physician has been seeing patients in Connellsville for the past 19 years. “For some ...

SB 1 distracts us from doing the real work to address Delaware’s unique health care challenges.

As the older adult population grows, health systems are expanding community care, virtual visits and home-based models to better meet their evolving needs. By 2050, there will be 82 million adults ...

Alabama ranks No. 45 nationally for health outcomes and faces severe shortages of both primary care and mental health providers. These challenges are compounded by high rates of chronic disease and ...

This article is authored by Mahesh Ganguly, teaching assistant and research fellow, IIT Bombay.

Each year, Americans make an estimated 500 million visits to primary care doctors. In fact, the CDC found just over 85% of Americans had a visit with a doctor or health professional in the past year.