A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 18, 2025

The kickoff to my new employer’s effort to integrate primary care and behavioral health led to many more meetings and eventually to embedding one LCSW into each of our relatively small primary care offices. The organization now employs a single psychiatric nurse practitioner for medication management.

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Barton Associates

MAY 8, 2025

Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) projects the country will be short 87,150 primary care doctors, 11,860 dentists, 79,160 psychologists—along with shortages of other key specialties—in 2037. These professionals play a vital role in maintaining essential services and ensuring continuity of patient care.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

My wife, who’s a PhD nurse practitioner, who actually was a founding dean of the nursing school at GW, and I were thinking about, well, we’re not sure we want to work for somebody else all the time. We’re doing a lot of interactive relationship building. Led the American Geriatric Society. Is that right?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. ” And I said to her, well, they had a geriatric nurse practitioner.

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