Kassouf Director Joni Wyatt, MHA, MHIA, CPHIMS shared her expertise about the looming physician shortage crisis in Alabama with Birmingham Medical News in their latest issue.
“We have many rural counties that are underserved,” said Joni Wyatt, MHA, MHIA, CPHIMS, who is a Director of the Healthcare Advisory at Kassouf. “In specialties like women’s health, there are deserts where patients drive a hundred miles to see an obstetrician or gynecologist. At the same time, in other locations near metropolitan centers, in some specialties we have clusters of physician in excess of the number needed for the population. For example, in Birmingham we have 130 more primary care physicians than our population predicts we need. In Athens, we have seven too few, in Oneonta 13 too few, and 17 too few in Pell City. On the other hand, Huntsville, Scottsboro, Decatur and Muscle Shoals have more primary care physicians than their population would predict.”
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