Expanding the Care Team: Leveraging a Broad Workforce to Improve Health Care in Kansas
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Description
Discusses challenges facing the healthcare landscape in Kansas, such as hospital closures and healthcare workforce shortages, and how expanding healthcare teams to include professions like community paramedics and community health workers can help alleviate these challenges. Includes data on demographics of the Kansas population and related hospital closures that impact rural areas in particular.
Author(s)
Valentina Blanchard, Wyatt J. Beckman, Linda J. Sheppard
Date
01/2024
Type
Document
Organization
Kansas Health Institute
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Allied health · Closures of healthcare facilities and services · Health occupations · Health workforce supply and demand · Hospitals · Scope of practice · Statistics and data · Kansas