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Advanced practice providers reached a second tentative agreement with Legacy Health on Tuesday, according to the Oregon ...

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Advanced practice providers rejected the tentative agreement reached with Legacy Health on Friday, citing “bad-faith bargaining, disrespect for their profession, uncompetitive wages and bloated execut ...

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.

Health care providers plan to go on strike starting Dec. 2. Advanced practice providers gave their notice to Legacy on Thursday. APPs include nurse practitioners and physician assistants. According to ...

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 ...

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 ...

For nearly two decades, advanced practice providers (APPs) have lived in a strange, in-between space in U.S. health systems. We are clinically indispensable, yet structurally unanchored. We are ...

As the U.S. faces a growing shortage of physicians, more patients locally are being seen by non-physicians, or advanced practice providers like nurse practitioners and physician assistants, as they ...

For health systems and hospitals, one of the most effective strategies for retention of advanced practice providers is to offer professional development opportunities. This week, HealthLeaders held ...

Under the agreement, the strike will end before the ratification vote is complete, and the 135 providers will return to work ...