When nurse practitioner Payal Patel changed medical practices, patient Ni-Ima Lattimer went with her. The Hempstead woman said she’s more comfortable with her and other nurses than with physicians.

Gaining insight into the expanding role of PAs can help benefit leaders and managers know how PAs are expanding access to high-quality care, controlling costs and working collaboratively with ...

The nurse practitioner will see you now. It’s not the phrase most people are accustomed to hearing, but it’s increasingly the case, with patients more likely than ever to see providers with advanced ...

This paper reviews the status of physician assistants/associates, an essential component of the US health care workforce. The evidence of their clinical performance and utilization trends are ...

Working alongside physicians, Bill Mahaffy has harvested arteries and treated patients in cardiac-care units, but he's not a physician; he's a physician assistant (PA), an occupation that is expected ...

Medical assistants trained as health coaches substantially improved patient-reported primary care under the Chronic Care model measured by the Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care. Objectives: ...

Because of workforce needs and demographic and chronic disease trends, nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) are taking a larger role in the primary care of medically complex ...

The Seattle Times has extensively covered the surging costs and staff shortages Washington hospitals face, and the threat to patients, hospitals and our state’s health care system if this is not ...

Massachusetts physician assistants are pushing legislation that removes certain supervisory requirements, saying it would improve health care access in underserved areas. The proposed legislation ...

Nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) are filling the primary care physician gap. Here’s which states have the highest percentage of NPs and PAs in primary care. The COVID-19 ...

In the midst of a severe health-care worker shortage, British Columbians have called upon the province to utilize the role of physician assistants over the past year. But the provincial government has ...