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The Physicians Foundation recently awarded nearly $500,000 in grants related to building physicians’ leadership skills. The grants were provided to healthcare organizations, universities and medical society foundations located across the country.
The Physicians Foundation has identified a Physicians Watch List for 2012 that includes five key issues that will impact practicing physicians in the year ahead. The Physicians Watch List for 2012 is based on research the Foundation released earlier this year, including the 2010 Health Reform Research Study and 2011 Roadmap for Physicians to Healthcare Reform Paper.
The Physicians Foundation announces that it has awarded a $130,000 planning grant to the Vermont Medical Society Education and Research Foundation to help fund the creation of a statewide Physicians’ Resource Center. This Center will work to build physicians’ leadership skills to help solve problems that directly interfere with the everyday processes of patient care.
The Physicians Foundation announces it has awarded a $750K grant to the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to develop a dynamic, web-based projection model that tracks where physician shortages are most problematic across the United States. “This tool will further enhance our ability to identify where physicians are most needed to support our patients and growing healthcare system,” said Dr. Alan Plummer, a Foundation spokesperson.
The Physicians Foundation released a report for private practice physicians, which examines the provisions of the ACA and how these legislative changes will directly impact their practice of medicine. The report, titled “A Roadmap for Physicians to Health Care Reform,” provides physicians with an in-depth perspective on the issues that are influencing current reform efforts as well as the major legislative changes that hold the most significance, such as changes in payment systems, quality reporting, shared savings programs and the changes reshaping the private health insurance market.
The Physicians Foundation announces it has awarded a $1 million dollar grant to Health Leads, an organization devoted to helping vulnerable families by arranging for college volunteers to partner with physicians in hospitals across the country. Physicians Foundation Vice President, Dr. Walker Ray, and Rebecca Onie, Health Leads Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, are quoted.
To see Health Leads in action, we invite you to watch this inspiring video.
Troubling new research indicates health care reform will put increased strain on doctors and their patients; amplify national doctor shortage
The Physicians Foundation announced that it has awarded 15 individual grants in 13 states totaling $1,983,632 for numerous Health Information Technology projects that will promote improvements in the physicians’ practice environment and support high quality patient care. Foundation spokespeople said the grants are particularly relevant given the national push toward digital health records, and that they hope to “shape how those changes are implemented in the months and years ahead.”
The Physicians Foundation announced that it has awarded more than a million dollars in grants to support projects that identify and train future medical leaders. 18 individual physician leadership grants were announced across 14 states, totaling $1,248,683.
The Physicians Foundation, a national healthcare organization representing physician interests, today expressed its frustration that Congress missed today’s deadline to address a proposed 21 percent Medicare cut.
The Physicians Foundation President, Louis J. Goodman, PhD, and Executive Director, Timothy B. Norbeck, wrote an op-ed on the issue of physician shortage.
A report commissioned by The Physicians Foundation, a national healthcare organization that represents the interests of physicians, raises new questions about the role of socioeconomic determinants as they relate to access, quality, and cost of medical care in the United States.
A report from The Physicians’ Foundation says nearly half of all the nation’s primary care physicians plan to reduce the number of patients they see or stop practicing entirely.
The Physicians Foundation responded to new Medicare physician payment cuts of 21 percent, which became effective today after Congress failed to take action on a month long stay.
The Physicians' Foundation Sending Survey to Every Primary Care Doctor in America April 7, 2008 National Group Seeks to Give Physicians A Voice IRVING, TX
Physicians' Foundation for Health Systems Excellence (PFHSE) announced today over $5.6 million in grants for its 2006 Excellence in Practice grant program. Selected from over 200 applicants, the 15 grantees will be working on various projects to improve quality of care, patient safety, and physician education. Grants range in size from $100,000 up to $500,000 for up to three years.
(DALLAS) Patients with chronic illnesses will receive better health care, new technology will enhance patient safety and quality of care, and working, uninsured patients will receive timely, quality physician care at no cost, thanks to