The program aims to create interdisciplinary teams of providers that can care for four times as many patients as independent physicians, according to the report. The program will encompass family medicine, nursing, dental hygiene, pharmacy and psychology.
The training program was funded to boost Hawaii’s number of primary care physicians and other providers and fight the growing physician shortage. “Support of this program…will generate greater numbers of providers practicing throughout the islands. Investing in training family practice residents in the neighbor islands is expected to yield a meaningful return on investment,” Howard Ainsley, CEO of Hawaii Health Systems Corp.’s East Hawaii region, told Big Island Now.
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