Building a Better Healthcare Future: What is the Role of Clinicians?

Welcome back, dear colleague!

We’re thrilled to announce Amy Staley as one of the featured speakers for our upcoming LinkedIn Live Event on January 24th:

What role can clinicians play in leading change in 2025?

Amy is an award-winning global nurse leader with a remarkable career dedicated to reducing inequities, empowering nurses, and working for the benefit of underserved communities. Her work spans advocacy for vaccine and health equity, fostering early-career nurses, and improving access to medical care for marginalized populations.

About Amy Staley

• Global Nurse Leader: Patient Care Director at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where she leads innovative programs in neuroscience and remote telemetry She is also Co-Chair of the Challengers Committee of the Nursing Now Challenge. 

• UN Advocate: Represented nursing and health equity at the United Nations General Assembly, speaking in over 150 countries.

• Advocate for Equity: Secured grants to serve low-income communities, pregnant teens in foster care, and harm reduction centers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Collaborator with Impact: Worked alongside the WHO, Africa CDC, and People Power Health to champion global health initiatives.

Why it matters: Amy’s amazing commitment to advocating for nurses and patients inspires a new generation of healthcare leaders to fight for equity and inclusion in care.

At our LinkedIn Live Event, we’ll discuss practical steps clinicians can take to drive meaningful change in healthcare. Together with speakers like Amy Staley, we’ll explore how we can build a system that empowers clinicians and prioritizes health equity.

🎙️ Event Details: What role can clinicians play in leading change in 2025?

• What: LinkedIn Live Event:

• When: January 24th at 1 PM EST

• Where: On LinkedIn

📅 Join us HERE!

The Crisis in Primary Care—and What We Can Do About It

As we gear up for our LinkedIn Live Event on January 24th, we want to highlight one of the most pressing conversations in healthcare today: the growing crisis in primary care.

What they're saying: In a powerful article on KevinMD, a family physician turned emergency medicine doctor Pamela Buchanan, shares her firsthand experience of how primary care shortages are overloading emergency departments and stretching healthcare systems to the breaking point.

• Primary care physicians are retiring faster than they can be replaced.

• Patients are left with no choice but to turn to ERs for chronic conditions and routine care.

• The result? Overwhelmed systems, burned-out clinicians, and patients falling through the cracks.

What's next: The article highlights two critical steps to address this growing crisis:

1. Prioritizing Prevention: Preventative care saves lives and reduces costs, but it’s often underfunded and undervalued.

2. Making Primary Care More Attractive: With medical debt and misaligned incentives, fewer young physicians are choosing primary care. Aligning incentives and valuing prevention are key to attracting future generations.

Bottom line: This article underscores the urgent need for systemic change—a theme central to our upcoming event. We must reimagine a healthcare system that works to keep people healthy, supports primary care, and values prevention.

📖 Read the full article on KevinMD.

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