Primary Care Providers Shortage Proposal Coursework

Primary Care Providers Shortage Proposal
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Executive summary
The current and predicted future trends for the shortage of primary care providers, which is and will be instigated by the Affordable Care Act, and the increasing population of the nation dependant on primary care, portray a diminishing steady drop in the number of primary care providers. This continues to create a gap between the demand of the population for primary care services and the capability of primary care providers to deliver quality primary care that would meet the demand. Primary care capacity can be increased through augmenting the prevailing primary care capacity and also increasing the number of primary care providers. The former can be done through assigning and coming up with new primary care responsibilities and roles, which include; incorporating the population health as part of the primary care practice; empowering licensed health practitioners; including and assigning some roles to registered nurses and pharmacists; generating a standing order for non-licensed health practitioners; amassing the potential for more patient self-care, and harnessing technology to add towards capacity.
The numbers of primary care providers can be increased through changing the views on primary care to not only reflect greater reward and respectable income, but also prestige. This could boost the capacity of students interested in becoming primary care providers and it could also promote staffing of the population likely to choose professions in primary care like international medical graduates, osteopathic physicians and minority groups.
Organization information
This paper will present the proposal (of solutions to the shortage of primary care providers) of the medical advisor for the (NHSC) National Health Service Corps, to present and submit it to the American Board of Medical Specialities (ABMS). The NHSC is a government program that the HRSA, United States Department of Health and Human Services and the Bureau of Health Workforce manage. NHSC provides health care to those people that need it the most. It has been working since 1972 and it aims at creating healthy communities through incorporating primary health care providers to the states in the U.S that have inadequate access to health care. Currently, the NHSC has 9,600 members that deliver health care that is culturally competent to a population of about ten million. The NHSC also has 5,000 approved sites for health care in both rural and urban areas of the United States. Of the NHSC primary care providers, 1,100 of them are preparing to practice or are in residency and school. The NHSC also offers financial support to its members and awards scholarships and repayments of loans to the primary care providers that are eligible. In turn, the providers are committed to serving in the NHSC approved health sites and they may continue to serve there even after their contract expires (NHRS, 2016).
The American Board of Medical Specialities is recognized as an organization that is a not-for-profit and it attends to medical professionals and the public. It aims at improving health care quality and generating educational and professional principle...