National Council to Address Shortages of Nurses and Physicians
20 7월 2006 - 6:24AM
PR Newswire (US)
Top Industry Leaders Seek Solutions to Critical Problems SAN DIEGO,
July 19 /PRNewswire/ -- A group of national healthcare leaders has
come together to address the growing problem of nurse and physician
shortages. According to Richard "Buz" Cooper, MD and Linda Aiken,
PhD, RN, co-chairs of the newly created Council on Physician and
Nurse Supply, the U.S. may lack as many as 200,000 physicians and
800,000 nurses by the year 2020. "By training more doctors and
nurses now," they said, "it may be possible to avert long waiting
times for routine health care and remedy the understaffing of
hospitals." The Council is based in the University of
Pennsylvania's Consortium for Health Workforce Research and Policy,
a joint program of the Schools of Nursing and Medicine and the
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. It is supported by AMN
Healthcare(R), San Diego, the nation's largest healthcare staffing
organization. The Council will monitor data and act as an advocate
for change, advising legislators and others on ways that the supply
of nurses and physicians can be altered to meet the public's needs.
Its goals are to bring objectivity to the study of physician and
nurse supply and to shape public policy. It is the only
multidisciplinary organization in the nation dedicated exclusively
to addressing issues of nurse and physician supply. "This Council
enters at an important time in the evolution of healthcare," said
Susan Nowakowski, President and CEO of AMN Healthcare. "The
healthcare industry needs a clear, convincing voice calling for
solutions to this growing problem. We are pleased to support
efforts of some of the best thinkers in the nation to solve this
problem." In addition to Cooper and Aiken, who are professors at
the University of Pennsylvania, the Council's members include James
Bentley, Senior Vice President for Strategic Policy Planning at the
American Hospital Association; Peter Budetti, MD, JD, Chair of the
Department of Health Administration and Policy at the College of
Public Health of the University of Oklahoma; David Blumenthal, MD,
MPP, Director of the Institute of Health Policy at the
Massachusetts General Hospital; Joyce Clifford, PhD, RN, President
and CEO of The Institute for Nursing Healthcare Leadership, Robert
Graham, MD, Professor of Family Medicine at the University of
Cincinnati; John Iglehart, Founding Editor, Health Affairs; William
Jessee, MD, President and CEO of the Medical Group Management
Association; Michael Johns, MD, Executive Vice President for Health
Affairs at Emory University; Kathleen Long PhD, RN, Dean of the
College of Nursing at the University of Florida; Barbara Ross-Lee,
DO, Dean of the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine; Marla
Salmon, ScD, RN, Dean of Emory University School of Nursing;
Boston; Ralph Snyderman, MD, Chancellor Emeritus at Duke
University; and Michael Whitcomb, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Academic
Medicine. Supporting members are Ms. Nowakowski and James Merritt,
senior executives of AMN Healthcare(R) and The MHA Group(R). At its
first meeting, which is being planned for October 2006 at the
University of Pennsylvania, the Council will examine a range of
domestic and international issues that must be addressed as the
U.S. attempts to better align its health care workforce with the
nation's future health care needs. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060718/LATU121LOGO) For more
information contact: Phillip Miller Joy McIntyre AMN Healthcare
University of Pennsylvania 469-524-1420 215.898.5074
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Phillip Miller of AMN Healthcare, +1-469-524-1420, ; or Joy
McIntyre of University of Pennsylvania, +1-215-898-5074, Web site:
http://www.amnhealthcare.com/
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