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A subgroup of the National Academies' Standing Committee on Primary Care will document access challenges to primary care across the lifespan and produce a report with recommendations for federal policy makers and other stakeholders to consider with the purpose of ensuring greater access to primary care for everyone in the United States who seeks it.
Description
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Standing Committee on Primary Care will examine the current status of access to high-quality primary care in the United States and assess the progress in implementing the access recommendations from the 2021 National Academies report, Implementing High-Quality Primary Care. The committee will also document new access challenges that have emerged since 2021. The committee will develop a report with updated recommendations focusing on federal policy changes to accelerate and ensure access to high-quality primary care for everyone in the United States who seeks it.
Contributors
Committee
Asaf Bitton
Member
Beth Bortz
Member
Ramon Cancino
Member
Andrea A. Anderson
Co-Chair
Alex H. Krist
Co-Chair
Deborah J. Cohen
Member
Tumaini R. Coker
Member
Karen L. Fortuna
Member
Ishani Ganguli
Member
Cheryl Giscombe
Member
Carlos Gonzalez
Member
Kevin Grumbach
Member
Lauren S. Hughes
Member
Yalda Jabbarpour
Member
Eboni Winford
Member
Sponsors
American Academy of Family Physicians
American Academy of Nursing
American Board of Family Medicine
American College of Physicians
Arnold Ventures
California Health Care Foundation
Commonwealth Fund
Healing Works Foundation
Milbank Memorial Fund
National League for Nursing
New York State Health Foundation
Samueli Foundation
Society for General Internal Medicine
Staff
Marc Meisnere
Lead
Makeda Haughton
Major units and sub-units
Center for Health, People, and Places
Lead
Health Care and Public Health Program Area
Lead
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