Future-Forward Strategies for Rural and Urban Care Delivery Challenges

Each patient is unique, and so is each patient-physician relationship. Acknowledging these differences is how high-quality, personalized care is delivered. The same is true for recognizing the care delivery challenges across different parts of the country: Rural healthcare brings its own set of challenges and opportunities that look different from  those in the suburbs and big cities.

As we step back and take a broader look at the state of healthcare operations in the post-pandemic, post-Great Resignation United States, it’s difficult to ignore the macro trends across different geographic settings: staffing shortages, stagnant reimbursement and a flurry of new technologies are universally top of mind for practice leaders nationwide, which MGMA and LocumTenens.com explored in a 2023 research paper outlining the motivations for clinicians to stay in practice amid this turbulent period.

Recognizing the imperative for continued innovation, LocumTenens.com and MGMA partnered earlier this year to survey healthcare leaders nationwide across geographic settings to:

• Assess their current and anticipated organizational challenges
• Surface their ongoing strategies for recruitment and retention, telehealth and emerging technologies
• Bring awareness to the unique factors that are motivating performance and care outcomes.

While the major challenges across healthcare today look universal on the surface, the most concerning commonality is how many traditional approaches are still standard operating procedures in many organizations, failing to generate transformative changes. This report shows that different approaches are necessary to appropriately update staffing and operations in rural, suburban and urban care settings to meet the growing needs of patients and the evolving realities of a labor-competitive, technology-driven market.

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