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Rural health care is losing doctors: An introduction to PAI

Author(s)Richard Payerchin

Reviewing the state of rural health care with the Physicians Advocacy Institute CEO Kelly Kenney, JD.

This year the Physicians Advocacy Institute (PAI) published “Rural Areas Face Steep Declines in Independent Physicians and Practices," a report on the state of physicians practicing — or leaving — rural areas of the nation. In this introduction, CEO Kelly Kenney, JD, introduces the organization.

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