More trainers are needed in Lane County to solve physician assistant, nurse practitioner shortage
Physician assistants and nurse practitioners, who work in tandem with doctors to provide primary care to patients, are key to making health care reform work in Oregon. But there aren’t enough of them in Lane County, and the shortage is projected to worsen by 2020, according to an Oregon Health Authority report. In 2012, Lane … Read moreMore trainers are needed in Lane County to solve physician assistant, nurse practitioner shortage