She/her. @AAFP media relations for federal advocacy/regulation, #healthIT, practice management and payment issues like #DPC and #APMs. Email: [email protected]
Interesting, right? Turns out that @aafp was right - people want to get their COVID vaccine at their physician’s office. Let’s listen to people and resource primary care and let them do what their patients want them to do - vaccinate people.
From AAFP CEO/EVP @rshawnm: "It is critical that we further engage primary care physicians to help us reach the necessary COVID-19 vaccination rate." This blog post explains why these physicians are best positioned with patients to move the needle: https://t.co/p0zrz8gm5p
Primary Care Physicians Should Play Key Role in COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
I wrote about why this is so important for our country and how the @aafp is working to shape national vaccine efforts.
https://t.co/NradDAPB6f
.@aafp welcomes @potus' move to review DHS' public charge regulation, which may penalize immigrants for seeking health care, ultimately increasing access barriers and exacerbating health disparities. https://t.co/GbFVDsd9jr
This plan is a great start, but the failure to prioritize the utilization of the nation's family physicians in the vaccine distribution strategy is a mistake. You cannot vaccinate 100+ million people if you ignore primary care physicians.
"Family physicians can play an important role in helping our country effectively respond to this horrible pandemic, and we are eager to partner with the Biden administration for this critical work.”
https://t.co/RgrjonnWro
“Generally speaking, unaffiliated community practices are having tremendous challenges obtaining vaccines for the physicians and care teams at those sites." AAFP CEO @rshawnm
Many #primarycare docs and their staff members are left in the dark about when and where they'll get the #COVID19 vaccine and most practices aren't prepared to distribute the vaccine to patients
https://t.co/BRqkaLDh0f
"Many doctors’ groups will seek a buyer, whether a hospital, an insurance company or a private equity firm that plans to roll up practices into a larger business."
Doctors Are Calling It Quits Under Stress of the Pandemic https://t.co/a0eP9dF38i