tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181810725696409953.post396791519343863665..comments2024-03-17T04:20:11.083-04:00Comments on The Population Health Blog: Nurse Care Managers: The Mortar Holding the Bricks of the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH)Jaan Sidorovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05072456803925863874noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181810725696409953.post-28040260161024881002011-09-26T01:09:24.893-04:002011-09-26T01:09:24.893-04:00Primary care needs more and better primary care nu...Primary care needs more and better primary care nurses that remain with their clinics and patients steadily building team care. What this is called matters less than the result. For best impact this also must be a result for over half of Americans left behind in health access. <br /><br />The US has about 270,000 primary care nurses - more than all physician primary care numbers combined. The primary care nurse manages primary care before, during, and after health care encounters, typically directs the clinic, trains personnel, insures that patients get needed services despite insurance company or government or other restrictions, and combats massive US health care fragmentation that impairs primary care. Help in all these areas can accomplish substantial improvements in primary care, particularly eliminating the restriction focus that could free up more nurses for patient care.<br /><br />Figuring out how to manage chronic care and huge costs per person for few is important, but so is extending health access to over 160 million left behind.Bob Bowmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12345017195665837451noreply@blogger.com