What Is the Impact on Rural Area Residents When the Local Physician Leaves?

View Resource

Results of a pilot study exploring challenges in access to care that result when rural communities lose a family physician. Based on interviews with 18 participants from 3 geographically distinct rural areas of Virginia who had experienced the loss of a family physician within the past 5 years.

Paulius Mui , Martha M. Gonzalez, Rebecca Etz

Family Medicine, 52(5), 352-356

05/2020

Access · Physicians · Primary care · Virginia