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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s landmark report, Implementing High-Quality Primary Care, recommends "all individuals should have the opportunity to have a usual source of primary care” and suggests a role for payers in making this a reality. When patients are matched to a primary care practice or individual, preventive and pro-active care, care coordination, and trusted relationships are possible.

This is the recording of the public online launch of Better Health - Now, a campaign to strengthen primary care in all communities through greater investment and better ways to pay for better health. This recording was created on March 29, 2022.

The pandemic has hit our families and communities hard. To recover and thrive, we must pivot healthcare resources to community-based primary care teams.

In a period of dynamic change in the organization and ownership of primary care practices, is it important to ensure that independent practice models remain in the care-delivery ecosystem? The committee that authored the 2021 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report, Implementing High-Quality Primary Care, recognized a continued role for independent primary care practices.

Implementing High-Quality Primary Care, the landmark report released in 2021 by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, was informed by a paper commissioned from Bob Berenson, MD, Adele Shartzer, and Roslyn Murray of the Urban Institute—Strengthening Primary Care Delivery Through Payment Reform. In this webinar, Dr.

Robert Pearl, MD, is a former CEO of The Permanente Medical Group who has written two books on the dysfunction of health care. Mistreated: Why We Think We’re Getting Good Health Care—And Why We’re Usually Wrong focuses on the systemic issues of the healthcare system that result in poor health outcomes. Uncaring: How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors & Patients focuses on the culture and how it undermines physician-patient relationships and causes other harm.

The PCC hosted this conversation with special guests from the White House and state government, who talked about the role of primary care in the administration of and education on the COVID vaccines. They also discussed the strategies the Biden administration and state public health departments have used to boost confidence in the vaccines and help Americans get vaccinated, from the administration’s Month of Action in June to state innovations such as involving barber shops in vaccine outreach. The U.S.