Jeffrey Borkan, Denise Coppa, Patricia Flanagan, Debra Hurwitz, Andrew Saal, Yolanda Bowes, Elena Nicolella, Peter Hollmann
BACKGROUND: Primary care in Rhode Island is in crisis. The dearth of primary care providers is already affecting access to services and the situation is likely to worsen unless major steps are taken. There are inadequate numbers of trainees in primary care medical residencies, nurse practitioner (NP) and physician assistant (PA) training programs who plan to practice primary care in our state. The Care Transformation Collaborative of RI (CTC-RI) has assembled a broadly representative task force of physicians, NPs, PAs, and others to build a strong and robust primary care delivery system across the state that recruits, trains, retains, and sustains primary care providers...
April 1, 2024: Rhode Island Medical Journal