{"id":9488,"date":"2024-08-08T20:03:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T20:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/?p=9488"},"modified":"2024-10-15T22:39:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T22:39:51","slug":"uw-chws-deputy-director-for-allied-health-quoted-in-seattle-times-article-on-primary-care-physicians-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/2024\/08\/08\/uw-chws-deputy-director-for-allied-health-quoted-in-seattle-times-article-on-primary-care-physicians-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"UW CHWS Deputy Director for Allied Health Quoted in Seattle Times Article on Primary Care Physicians in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/health\/why-primary-care-physicians-are-becoming-harder-to-find-in-wa\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9499\" src=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-11.52.08\u202fAM-300x197.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-11.52.08\u202fAM-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-08-at-11.52.08\u202fAM.png 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The search for health care providers has become common in Washington and spans specialties, from surgery to psychiatry, but the state\u2019s primary care landscape faces a particularly wide range of challenges that continue to worsen. Several factors are related to the long-looming reality of an aging population that\u2019s older, on average, <a class=\"content-link external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prb.org\/resources\/fact-sheet-aging-in-the-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.prb.org\/resources\/fact-sheet-aging-in-the-united-states\/\">than the U.S. has ever been<\/a>. This means providers are retiring, while patients are starting to require more complex care.\u00a0Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/health\/why-primary-care-physicians-are-becoming-harder-to-find-in-wa\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9488","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\/9488","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9488"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9733,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9488\/revisions\/9733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}