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Where doctors aren’t: New study shows why primary care shortages persist

By Austin Littrell, Medical Economics Nearly half of Virginia’s neighborhoods lack adequate access to primary care. That’s the conclusion of a new study published in the Annals of Family Medicine, which used all-payer claims data to map how and where patients in the state can reach a doctor within 30 minutes. Researchers found that 44% of […]

Alumni Spotlight: Lauryn S. Walker, Ph.D. ’19

Lauryn Walker, Ph.D. ‘19, is an alum of the Healthcare and Policy Research program within the Department of Health Policy. She is the Chief Strategy Officer for the Virginia Center for Health Innovation, a non-profit dedicated to creating and promoting value-driven models of healthcare in Virginia. She is also on the board of the non-profit […]