In the latest installment of HealthLeaders' The Winning Edge series, a three-member panel of experts explore successful strategies for handling the advanced practice provider boom.
With a growing shortage of physicians in many specialties, advanced practice providers (APPs) such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants have become essential members of clinical care teams. APPs are being deployed in every care setting, including inpatient units, outpatient clinics, specialty practices, and urgent care centers.
The video below features a three-member panel of experts discussing successful strategies for managing and deploying APPs. The panelists are Teresa Caulin-Glaser, MD, executive vice president and chief clinical officer at OhioHealth; Debra Fournier, DNP, APRN, chief advanced practice provider officer at Dartmouth Health; and Read Pierce, MD, CMO at Denver Health.
The panelists cover a wide range of topics, including the importance of APP onboarding programs, leadership roles for APPs, deploying APPs in primary care, and offering professional development opportunities for APPs.
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Christopher Cheney is the CMO editor at HealthLeaders.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
With physician shortages in many specialties, advanced practice providers have emerged as a vital workforce resource at health systems, hospitals, and medical groups.
Whether advanced practice providers should always play a supporting role for physicians or should be able to lead care teams is an evolving consideration.