In a new assessment of reproductive and abortion care access, researchers have found that long travel distance is a leading barrier to care.
The study, published in JAMA Network Open by researchers...
There is a growing racial and economic divide in the receipt of patient-centered care, with minority and low-income patients having their care preferences taken into account less frequently than White...
Medicaid community health workers facilitated better care access for low-income patients by boosting reliance on outpatient care and decreasing avoidable emergency department utilization, according to...
Legacy Community Health announced Houston Methodist, a leading health system in Texas, donated $50 million to expand access to healthcare services by building community health centers for...
Improving patient primary care access may be as simple as connecting that patient with a provider who speaks the same language as them, helping to build stronger patient-provider relationships, instill...
Patient experience consulting and surveying firm Press Ganey got a big leg up after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved it to administer the Primary Care First Patient...
A good patient-provider relationship has long been understood as the foundation of a high patient satisfaction score, but new evidence suggests these relationships can have greater impacts. A study in...
Improving primary care access and quality for women will require an allover approach to providing sex-specific, sex-aware, and gender-sensitive care that is coordinated across a woman’s lifetime,...
The emergency department is an exceptionally important healthcare setting, giving patients a place to go when they are experiencing life-threatening and often frightening healthcare symptoms. But these...
Patients all across the country experience some sort of mental health issue every day. But instead of visiting the doctor like they might for a sprained ankle or chest pains, these individuals face...
Across the country, patients living in health deserts suffer from limited care access and other socioeconomic barriers to healthcare. But mobile health clinics are changing that, driving better patient...
