The new centers are being built or acquired in 11 of the 15 states where Humana’s primary care network already has a presence.

Wellnus was co-founded by a family medicine physician and veteran with experience treating patients globally. The startup has an emphasis on multilingual, culturally competent care.

Dr. J is also a former E.R. nurse and has faced her fair share of dangerous situations while caring for patients, including one who was high on drugs.

Many health experts say that U.S. primary care is in crisis, with demand for appointments rising and doctors scarce. A new ...

Find out more about the winner and shortlisted entries in the Nursing in Primary Care category at the 2024 Nursing Times Awards. The winners of the 2024 Nursing Times Awards were announced at a ...

Notwithstanding the substantial progress in acute stroke care over the past 15 years, the focus of stroke medical advances and healthcare resources has been on acute and subacute recovery phases, ...

Advocate Health Care, the largest provider of medical care in Chicago, is closing 47 clinics it has operated inside Walgreens stores for nearly a decade.

Dually certified adult-gerontology primary and acute care nurse practitioners work in primary and specialty care outpatient clinics and acute and critical care hospital settings. Under the ...

Introduced in the early 2000s, nurse practitioners are registered nurses with advanced clinical training and a master’s degree. They are qualified to diagnose conditions, provide comprehensive patient ...

which the government says will connect 300,000 more people to primary care this year. The teams are typically made up of a family doctor or nurse practitioner working alongside other health ...

which increased the national demand for primary-care services. Still, the concept of a nurse practitioner met with strong resistance, including from within the nursing profession. Some nurses ...

Nurse practitioners can now provide much of the care a medical doctor can — prescribe medicines, order and analyze lab tests, diagnose and treat diseases, and more — providing an option for ...