Rural Communities Do NOT HAVE ACCESS
The Rural Healthcare Access Crisis
Modernizing the Healthcare Workforce
Modernizing the Healthcare Workforce
Rural Tennessee faces growing access challenges driven by provider shortages, long travel distances, and overreliance on emergency departments for routine care.
These challenges are not caused by a lack of qualified clinicians. They are the result of outdated policies that limit how care can be delivered, even when providers are already serving these communities.
Modernizing the Healthcare Workforce
Modernizing the Healthcare Workforce
Modernizing the Healthcare Workforce
Modernizing scope of practice laws allows APRNs and PAs to work to the full extent of their education and training.
Evidence from more than half of U.S. states shows this approach:
• Expands access to care
• Improves rural recruitment and retention
• Maintains patient safety and quality
• Strengthens healthcare system sustainability
Third Party Support
The Federal Trade Commission
National Governor's Association
National Governor's Association
“We have not seen research suggesting that the safety or quality of primary care services declines when APRN supervision or collaborative practice requirements are lessened or eliminated.”
National Governor's Association
National Governor's Association
National Governor's Association
“Among the quality of care components that these studies measure are several process measures, among them patient’s satisfaction, time spent with patients, prescribing accuracy, and the provision of preventive education. In each of these categories, Nurse Practitioners provided at least equal quality of care to patients as compared to physicians.”
Institute of Medicine
National Governor's Association
American Enterprise Institute
Future of Nursing Report:
“The contention that APRNs are less able than physicians to deliver care that is safe, effective and efficient is not supported by the decades of research that has examined this question.”
American Enterprise Institute
American Enterprise Institute
American Enterprise Institute
"We have reviewed sizable body of evidence related to whether there was any difference in quality of care when it was provided by APRNs rather than physicians. There is extensive empirical evidence that APRN practice outcomes are at least equivalent to those of physicians to which they are compared. And on some metrics, such as patient satisfaction, some studies have found APRN care is actually better."
The Cato Institute
American Enterprise Institute
The Cato Institute
“When physician groups argue to restrict the scope of practice of nurse practitioners, they argue that a broader scope of practice would threaten patient safety. Yet study after study has shown midlevel clinicians provide a level of quality equal to that of physicians performing the same services.”
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