With physician shortages and the high cost of employing physicians, APPs have become a mainstay of care teams. The following is an extended excerpt from a HealthLeaders story published in August.

A pair of chief physician executives share how their health systems recruit and retain clinicians. Health systems must adopt a multitude of recruitment and retention strategies for physicians and ...

Panelists discuss how physician assistants play an essential role in addressing the critical shortage of psychiatrists, particularly in rural areas, where 55% of US counties lack a single psychiatric ...

National Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Week, recognized Sept. 25-29, honors the skill and hard work of nurse practitioners, nurse anesthetists, physician assistants, and nurse midwives while ...

The Advanced Practice Provider Oncology Fellowship, offered through Fred Hutch Cancer Center and the University of Washington Medical Center, is a 12-month, post-graduate program for physician ...

An ongoing critical shortage of physicians in America’s rural areas requires innovative strategies to meet the healthcare needs of millions of individuals in these communities. Although 20 percent of ...

“Without advanced practice providers, the landscape of rural health care would greatly change for the negative, and it would impact patient care -- and that’s where my focus is and my role is: what’s ...

The primary care physician (PCP) shortage is reaching crisis proportions — and is poised to continue being an industry-wide concern, as more than a third of currently active physicians are likely to ...

AANP 2017 kicks off in Philadelphia This article aims to shed light on the various viewpoints surrounding the term Advanced Practice Provider and its implications for health care professionals. The ...

The ratification vote came after the two sides reached a second tentative agreement in the last days of December 2025. The ...