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It’s All in the Demographics
[A New AAHC Report]
[By Staff Reporters]
Current domestic policies will not avert a US health work-force crisis, according to a new report released by the Association of Academic Health Centers [AAHCs]. Moreover, it recommends developing a national planning body to unite efforts to slow/end work-force shortages.
The Report
The association’s report, “Out of Order, Out of Time: The State of the Nation’s Health Workforce,” points to a long and growing list of challenges. These include projected shortages in primary care and nursing; as the baby-boomer wave of retiring physicians and increasing medical needs of the growing elderly population exacerbate.
Lifestyle Preferences
Also, as reported in the American Medical News, on August 25, other issues fueling shortages of health-care workers include lifestyle preferences (regular work hours and family), economic disparities, rising medical school debt loads, and a dwindling pool of medical school faculty, with fragmented health care work-force policymaking.
Assessment
If this all isn’t enough to discourage new entrants from joining the healthcare industry, the plummeting value of present-day small-to-medium sized private medical practices just might.
In fact, our Publisher-in-Chief, Dr. David Edward Marcinko was recently interviewed by the American Medical News on this very topic. And, the un-edited version of that interview will appear in an upcoming issue of the Medical Executive-Post, shortly after AMNews publication.
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According to the Maryland Hospital Association the hospital workforce shortage has continued to persist in the state of Maryland, particularly for nursing.
Jenny
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Physician Shortage Predictions ‘Overestimated’: Researchers
Those who forecast shortages of primary-care physicians may be shortsighted, a group of academic researchers says in a Health Affairs report likely to stir controversy on a much-debated issue. The hand-wringing about primary-care shortages is unwarranted if those making the predictions are basing their estimates on doctor-to-general-population ratios that don’t align with the productivity of a modern physician practice, researchers from the Columbia Business School in New York and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in Philadelphia said.
In their report, the researchers wrote that using ratios—such as one primary-care doctor for every 2,500 people—to project shortages assumes the traditional model of patients being seen by a single physician is still the order of the day, which leads to misdirected conclusions. The researchers argued that a practice’s patient panel can be expanded by using “open” or same-day scheduling, which calls for giving patients the option of seeing another doctor if their regular physician is unavailable.
Source: Andis Robeznieks, Modern Physician [1/8/13]
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Doctor-shortage projections challenged
Economists claim there’s not much evidence for a physician shortfall despite an ACA-fueled influx of new patients and an aging population.
http://www.medicalpracticeinsider.com/news/doctor-shortage-projections-challenged?email=%%EmailAddress%%&GroupID=90115&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRokuqXPZKXonjHpfsX56O0kXK6zlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4DSctmI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQ7LHMbpszbgPUhM%3D
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