Native Americans are dying from pregnancy, and they want a voice to stop the trend • South Dakota Searchlight Native organizations, the CDC, and some states are working to boost tribal participation in state maternal mortality review committees to better track and address pregnancy-related deaths in their…

Native Americans and Alaska Natives have the highest pregnancy-related mortality ratio among major demographic groups. Native organizations, the CDC, and some states are working to boost tribal participation in state maternal mortality review committees, reports @kffhealthnews.org.

Primary Care Clinicians Available for New Patient Visits Interview with Katherine Majzoub Morgan, MD, MPP, author of Primary Care Clinicians Available for New Patient Visits, and Ishani Ganguli, MD, MPH, author of A Different Lens on the Primary Care Workforce Shortage—Who Is Accepting New Patients? Hosted by Eve Rittenberg, MD.

Authors Katherine Majzoub Morgan, MD, MPP, and Ishani Ganguli, MD, MPH, discuss how evolving care models, payment structures, and workforce trends shape access to primary care with Eve Rittenberg, MD.

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Two line graphs compare new primary care visits and clinicians for Medicare beneficiaries from 2013-2021. 'All clinicians' is fairly stable, 'Physicians' decreases, and 'APCs' increases. Text: Figure 1. New Primary Care Visits...

From 2013 to 2021, overall clinician availability for new primary care visits declined, with APCs performing a greater percentage of new visits but not fully compensating for reduced physician supply among #Medicare fee-for-service patients.

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🙏 Thanks to my co-authors, Drs. @mlbarnett.bsky.social and @renekara.bsky.social, for their mentorship and collaboration, and to @brighamandwomens.bsky.social Division of General Internal Medicine and @harvardmed.bsky.social T32 Fellowship in General Internal Medicine for their support. (5/5)

🎤 Podcast discussing our findings with Dr. @ishaniganguli.bsky.social and Dr. Eve Rittenberg: edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/...
💡 Editorial by Dr. Teva Brender et al.: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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*Why This Matters*
🩺 "Clinicians available for new visits" expands our understanding of workforce supply & is also relevant to other populations
🚨 We need to understand system-level drivers behind the decline in PCP availability for new patients and pursue interventions that reverse this trend (3/5)

*Key Findings*
📉 primary care physicians and 📈 advanced practice clinicians available for new visits BUT overall # of clinicians available for new patient visits per beneficiary ⬇️ by 5% from 2013 to 2021
⚠️ By 2021 < 1/2 of primary care physicians were available for new patient visits. (2/5)

Primary Care Clinicians Available for New Patient Visits This cross-sectional study examines changes in the numbers of primary care physicians and primary care advanced practice practitioners available for new patient primary care visits.

📖 Our new study in @jamainternalmed.com examines the primary care workforce serving fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries using a pragmatic, patient-centered measure: clinicians available for new patient visits per beneficiary.
👉Article: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Every time there's a horrific mass shooting, which is often at a school, I think to myself: "Surely THIS TIME, the U.S. will see all those dead kids and realize the time has come to do something about unfettered access to guns."

I hope this time is the time.

Glad to see JAMA highlighting this tragic outcome and the need for more research focused on what can be done to prevent it. Efforts to understand modifiable factors that contribute to pregnancy loss before 20 weeks also deserve a lot more attention.

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Hard to believe it‘s already @societygim.bsky.social abstract submission week again! Grateful for all that I’ve learned since last year, humbled by all there is still to learn, and excited to see what everyone’s been working on this year! #SGIM2026 #medsky