This morning there are 1.9 million Google responses musing over a projected shortage in the health-care workforce. Considered an impending crisis, public policy institutes and think tanks, individual state commissions, media outlets, the health insurance industry, and more are included in the discussion.
Perhaps, though, the evolving patient-centered care model includes a supply of health-care providers—not previously included—to meet that demand. The Bravewell Collaborative, a foundation established to transform public health, has instituted programs to support patient care that are effective, sustainable, and focused on health. It defines patient-centered care as “a practical strategy, integrative medicine puts the patient at the center and addresses the full range of physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual, and environmental influences that affect a person’s health.”
What do we know about the complementary and alternative methods that patients are seeking and that could possibly eclipse a projected lack in our health-care provider workforce?
