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Primary Care OfficeAccess to primary medical, oral and behavioral health care is an important requisite for good health. Over 1 million Coloradans live in a community with less than half of the primary health providers needed to optimally deliver primary health services. Lack of primary health providers creates high barriers to access for low-income, publicly insured, uninsured and geographically isolated Coloradans. The Primary Care Office is charged with lowering the barriers that prevent Coloradans from accessing adequate high quality primary health services in their community. Some of the known barriers to health services access in Colorado include:
Primary care is the provision of integrated, accessible health care
services by clinicians who are accountable for addressing a large
majority of personal health care needs, developing a sustained
partnership with patients, and practicing in the context of family and
community (Institutes of Medicine, Committee on the Future of Primary
Care). The Primary Care Office focuses on assessment for primary health professional workforce needs throughout the state and on directing incentives to those qualified professionals and clinics willing to care for medically underserved people in areas determined to have a provider shortage. The following are key activities and services of the Primary Care Office.
Services of the Primary Care Office
Key Partners in Health Care Workforce Development Activities for Underserved Coloradans
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