Nurse-Run Clinics—Is this Our Heath Care Future?

There’s a nurse in your health care future and by 2025 nurses and nurse practitioners will deliver virtually all primary care in the United States, this according to Thomas Aschenbrener in an opinion piece posted on OregonLive.com, where he challenges all health care professionals to become visionaries. And according to Aschenbrener, who is president Northwest Health Foundation, Oregon will lead the way by shaping a health system of the future that will serve as a model for cost management, quality and patient satisfaction. Go here to read more of what he has to say about our health care future.

The Northwest Health Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation collaborate to to support the capacity, involvement and leadership of local foundations to advance the nursing profession in their own communities through Partners Investing in Nursing’s Future (PIN).