The Veterans Administration (VA) recently announced a plan to improve veterans’ access to care that includes increasing loan repayment opportunities and physician salaries and hiring … Read More ›
Category: Patient Care & Quality
A new federal law–the Veterans’ Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014—is aimed at increasing veterans’ access to care by authorizing … Read More ›
A report on the physician workforce from the Pennsylvania Joint State Government Commission recommends six strategies to address projected future physician shortages, while also suggesting patient-centered medical … Read More ›
For many years, the Pennsylvania Medical Society (PAMED) has been engaged in alerting the state to impending workforce issues, which now have been accelerated by … Read More ›
In an Aug. 4 news release, UPMC announced that, in an effort to share more and better information with consumers and increase transparency, it is … Read More ›
Over the past months, the Pennsylvania Medical Society (PAMED) has been working with the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP), Leading Edge PA, the … Read More ›
As previously reported, the delegates at the American Medical Association (AMA) Annual Meeting in June voted to work with state medical societies to create state-specific … Read More ›
Pennsylvania, like the rest of the country, faces growing workforce challenges within its health care system. Forecasts show that those challenges will only get worse … Read More ›