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The Primary Care Extension Program: A Catalyst for Change

Robert L. Phillips, Arthur Kaufman, James W. Mold, Kevin Grumbach, Molly Vetter-Smith, Anne Berry and Bridget Teevan Burke
The Annals of Family Medicine March 2013, 11 (2) 173-178; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.1495
Robert L. Phillips Jr
1The American Board of Family Medicine, Washing ton, DC
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Arthur Kaufman
2Office for Community Health, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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James W. Mold
3Department of Family & Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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Kevin Grumbach
4Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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Molly Vetter-Smith
5Office of Continuing Education & Extension, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri
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Anne Berry
6George Washington University, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, Washington, DC
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Bridget Teevan Burke
7Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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Abstract

The Affordable Care Act authorized, but did not fund, the Primary Care Extension Program (PCEP). Much like the Cooperative Extension Program of the US Department of Agriculture sped the modernization of farming a century ago, the PCEP could speed the transformation of primary care. It could also help achieve other goals such as integrating primary care with public health and translating research into practice. The urgency of these goals and their importance to achieving the Triple Aim for health care should increase interest in rapidly building the PCEP, much as the need to feed the country did a century ago.

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  • primary care
  • change
  • organizational
  • health policy
  • Received for publication September 3, 2012.
  • Revision received December 16, 2012.
  • Accepted for publication January 8, 2013.
  • © 2013 Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.
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