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Gregg Stracks: The Heart of Leadership
Please join me in reflecting on our collective luck at being a part of a network and movement connected to such an amazing person as Gregg Stracks, who gave so much of himself, at such a difficult time. Let’s commit to using PCP’s Gregg Stracks Leadership Summit to reconnect with the values that brought us into primary care.
Hawai’i PCP ‘Catalyzes’ Behavioral Health Integration
PCP’s Catalyst Project is wrapping up its pilot year, and University of Hawai’i PCP just successfully completed their capstone event: a town hall meeting to address their community’s need to better integrate behavioral health into primary care.
Johns Hopkins Launches Primary Care Leadership Track
Last year, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine launched its Primary Care Leadership Track. Progress Notes sat down with student leader Jenny Wen and faculty advisor Colleen Christmas to ask them the purpose of the program and how they got it off the ground.
PCP Hawai’i Pairs Aspiring Primary Care Doctors with Inspiring Mentors
At Univiersity of Hawaii’s John A. Burns School of Medicine, the PCP team pairs students interested in primary care with mentors in their chosen specialty. Second-year med student Megan Sumida tells us all about it.
Med Students Transforming Primary Care Through Storytelling
Storytelling inspires action, even in the face of overwhelming challenges, which is what we need to transform primary care. Today on the blog, a co-leader of our Hofstra team explains how she passed storytelling skills on to her teammates.
Healthcare Reform Advocacy: Five Things You Can Do
With so much in flux in healthcare, many of us are scratching our heads about how to make meaningful change in the midst of the uncertainty. After nearly 20 years in community advocacy and primary care, PCP Founder Andrew Morris-Singer shares his thoughts.
New Primary Care Track Launches at Hofstra’s Northwell School Of Medicine
Hofstra University Northwell School of Medicine launched a primary care track called IMPACcT (Improving Patient Access, Cost and Care through Training) last June. Today on the blog, we learn all about the program through a Q&A with the IMPACcT program’s leadership: (clockwise from top left) Dr. Lauren Block, Dr. Alice Fornari, Dr. Joseph Conigliaro, and …
Healthcare Hotspotting Meets High-Utilizing Patients
Healthcare hotspotting is an innovative model of care through which health professionals across disciplines work as a team to identify healthcare super-utilizers – people who are admitted to the hospital multiple times a year, frequently for avoidable complications of chronic conditions, and who often have social barriers to adhering to their care plan. Hotspotters proactively bring additional attention, follow-up, resources, and care to these patients in their homes and communities to help keep them out of the hospital.
Relational Leadership™: The “Who” – not “What” – of Primary Care Transformation
In our last post of 2015, PCP President and Founder Andrew Morris-Singer sends us off with a call for leaders that focus on the “who” not the “what” of change in the health care system.
Why I Left Medical School
With just a few months left of medical school, this student decided she could do more to transform primary care from outside academia. So she took some time off and here’s what she did (hint: it involves an app).