Program addresses Role of NPs with Health Care Reform Looming
During the final month of her term as CANP President, Surani Kwan appeared as a featured guest on “Vision for California,” a series of discussions on health care reform hosted by Sen. Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina), a licensed optometrist who chairs the Senate Committee on Health.
The program addressed the looming shortage of primary care physicians anticipated with the enactment of federal health care reform, and the role that nurse practitioners will play in addressing that need. “With health care reform, regardless of how it comes out for the entire nation, we still have about five million additional patients that need care in the State of California,” said Kwan. “There are not enough primary care providers to care for five million more patients. Nurse practitioners are perfectly poised to step into the void.”
Video courtesy of Senate Democratic Caucus