{"id":10626,"date":"2025-04-06T17:21:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T17:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/?p=10626"},"modified":"2025-04-23T23:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T23:26:15","slug":"uw-chws-senior-deputy-director-weighs-in-on-oregons-worsening-primary-care-access-in-the-oregonian-oregonlive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/2025\/04\/06\/uw-chws-senior-deputy-director-weighs-in-on-oregons-worsening-primary-care-access-in-the-oregonian-oregonlive\/","title":{"rendered":"UW CHWS Senior Deputy Director Weighs in on Oregon\u2019s Worsening Primary Care Access in The Oregonian\/OregonLive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/health\/2025\/04\/portland-area-residents-cant-find-doctors-and-they-say-its-only-getting-worse.html?outputType=amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10631\" src=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/04\/The-Oregonian-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Despite Oregon having one of the highest ratios of primary care providers per capita, Portland-area residents are struggling more than ever to access timely care. A recent article from <em>The Oregonian\/OregonLive<\/em> reveals how retirements, burnout, and administrative burdens have pushed many doctors out of primary care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"229\" data-end=\"930\">In this article, UW CHWS Senior Deputy Director <a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/team\/susan-skillman\/\">Susan Skillman<\/a> warns that without addressing these underlying issues, efforts to train and recruit new providers will fall short of fixing Oregon\u2019s widening primary care gap. &#8220;If you\u2019re pouring the water out of the spigot into a leaky bucket, you\u2019re never going to fill it.&#8221; Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/health\/2025\/04\/portland-area-residents-cant-find-doctors-and-they-say-its-only-getting-worse.html?outputType=amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":435,"featured_media":10631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10626"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10642,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626\/revisions\/10642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}