Webinar: Patient Perspectives on Primary Care

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Implementing High-Quality Primary Care has invited representatives from several patient groups to share what primary care means to the patients they represent and how it can serve them better. 

Agenda

11:00 AM: Welcome and Introductory Remarks
11:10 PM: Patient Advocacy Perspectives: 

• AARP – Winifred Quinn, Director of Advocacy and Consumer Affairs 
• Family Voices – Allysa Ware, Project Director
• Migrant Clinicians Network - Amy Liebman, Director of Environmental and Occupational Health
• National Patient Advocate Foundation – Gwen Darien, Executive Vice President of Patient Advocacy and Engagement
• National Health Council – Marc Boutin, Chief Executive Officer
• University of North Carolina Family Support Program – Barbara Leach, Family Support Specialist and Special Projects Coordinator  
• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs – Jennifer Purdy, Executive Director for Veterans Patient Experience

12:20 PM: Committee Questions and Comments
1:00 PM: Adjourn 

This committee will examine the current state of primary care in the United States and develop an implementation plan to build upon the recommendations from the 1996 IOM report, "Primary Care: America's Health in a New Era", to strengthen primary care services in the United States, especially for underserved populations, and to inform primary care systems around the world. To develop the implementation plan, the committee will consider successes and limitations of prior efforts to innovate in primary care, as well as the increasing demands and stresses on the primary care system, and will recommend ways to effectively scale and implement successful innovations and programs in U.S. health care settings.

Through the course of the study, the committee will meet several times. The webinar is one of the many processes that the committee will use to gather information and assemble evidence that members will examine and discuss in the course of making the committee’s findings, conclusions, and recommendations.