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"Massachusetts Case Study: Nurse Practitioners & the Demand for Primary Care" - on Partners in Practice
With more Americans due to become insured as a result of healthcare reform, nurse practitioners will be increasingly necessary to help make up for the shortage of primary care physicians. Residents of Massachusetts have been required to have health insurance since 2007. There, nurse practitioners have stepped in to meet the demand for primary care. Nurse practitioner Dr. Marie-Eileen Onieal, health policy expert and director of health services for the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services, joins host Mimi Secor to look at the role NPs play in Massachusetts' healthcare system, and how this model can help reduce costs and improve patient care throughout the country.
Mimi Secor, MS, FNP-BC, FAANP earned her master's degree in nursing from the University of Massachusetts in 1995 and her master's degree in education from Antioch University in Cambridge in 1979. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, on the board of directors for the Nurse Practitioners Associates for Continuing Education, and member of a number of professional organizations, including Sigma Theta Tau, the Honor Society of Nursing; the American Nurses Association; the Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners, of which she is a founder; and the American College of Clinicians, a national organization for nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
Dr. Marie-Eileen Onieal is the director of health services for the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services. She holds several administrative roles at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, including health policy coordinator at the Bureau of Health Quality Management, hospital preparedness coordinator at the Center for Emergency Preparedness, and executive director of the professional licensure board.
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