Would a Nursing Home Physician Specialty Resolve the Workforce Crisis in Long-Term Care?
Authors: Cheryl L. Phillips
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (2009)

Letters15 September 2009Would a Nursing Home Physician Specialty Resolve the Workforce Crisis in Long-Term Care?Cheryl L. Phillips, MD, CMDCheryl L. Phillips, MD, CMDFrom On Lok Lifeways, San Francisco, CA 94109.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-151-6-200909150-00010 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail TO THE EDITOR:Katz and colleagues (1) present a provocative and appealing model to address the challenge of attracting committed and trained physicians into nursing home care. The barriers to such practice are already assumed. In a 2006 report, Katz and Karuza (2) noted that only 1 in 5 physicians who were identified as primary care physicians reported any involvement in nursing home care, and that those who were involved averaged only about 2 hours per week. Furthermore, the 2005 survey of the American Medical Directors Association (AMDA) (3), the national association of approximately 4000 nursing home medical directors, found ...References1. Katz PR, Karuza J, Intrator O, Mor V. Nursing home physician specialists: a response to the workforce crisis in long-term care. Ann Intern Med. 2009;150:411-3. [PMID: 19293074] LinkGoogle Scholar2. Katz PR, Karuza J. The nursing home physician workforce. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2006;7:394-7; discussion 397-8. [PMID: 16843242] Google Scholar3. Lett JE. Professional liability in long-term care: the pressure mounts [Letter]. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2005;6:426-8. [PMID: 16286073] CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. Kapp M. Is There a Doctor in the House? Physician Liability Fears and Quality of Care in Nursing Homes. Oakland, CA: California HealthCare Foundation; 2008. Google Scholar Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: From On Lok Lifeways, San Francisco, CA 94109.Disclosures: None disclosed. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee AlsoNursing Home Physician Specialists: A Response to the Workforce Crisis in Long-Term Care Paul R. Katz , Jurgis Karuza , Orna Intrator , and Vincent Mor Would a Nursing Home Physician Specialty Resolve the Workforce Crisis in Long-Term Care? Marie-Luz Villa Would a Nursing Home Physician Specialty Resolve the Workforce Crisis in Long-Term Care? Heidi K. White , Gwendolen Buhr , Jose Gonzalez , and Would a Nursing Home Physician Specialty Resolve the Workforce Crisis in Long-Term Care? Leslie S. Libow and Gisele Wolf-Klein Would a Nursing Home Physician Specialty Resolve the Workforce Crisis in Long-Term Care? William B. Freedberg Would a Nursing Home Physician Specialty Resolve the Workforce Crisis in Long-Term Care? Paul R. Katz , Jurgis Karuza , and Vincent Mor Metrics Cited ByThe Health Care Workforce: Will It Be Ready as the Boomers Age? A Review of How We Can Know (or Not Know) the Answer 15 September 2009Volume 151, Issue 6Page: 429KeywordsHealth careHealth care qualityHospitalistsLong-term careMotivationNursing homesPatientsPeer review ePublished: 15 September 2009 Issue Published: 15 September 2009 CopyrightCopyright © 2009 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF DownloadLoading ...