Rural Workforce Development: Critical Challenges

• By: Rachel W. Bush, PhD New York Medical College
• July 1st, 2019
• job satisfaction, mental health access, physician shortage, professional training, rural demographics, rural healthcare, stigma, workforce development
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The critical challenges that are associated with rural workforce development remain a significant issue in America. We have an obligation to explore the best ways of caring for the underserved rural population. Currently we have a health professions crisis unfolding. The federal government projects...

Primary Care Integration: Alternative Workforce Strategies for Community-Based Behavioral Health Service Organizations in the Era of Physician Shortages

• By: Rachael A. Petitti, PhD, LCSW University of New Haven Dpt. of Health Administration and Policy
• July 1st, 2019
• alternative care models, behavioral health, healthcare funding, nonprofit healthcare, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, physician shortage, primary care integration
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It has been many years since the surgeon general report declared that vastly poor health outcomes for persons suffering from behavioral health disorders was a public health crisis. Lives filled with long term disability and early mortality caused, in part, by service fragmentation within the U.S....