Midlevel practitioners step in to meet rising care demand
February 7, 2014
As the Affordable Care Act increases health insurance enrollment, and thus patients seeking care, physician assistants (PA) are opening primary care clinics in Washington’s Spokane Valley, the Inlanderreported earlier this week. Janice Jordan and her husband Kevin Bichler, both certified PAs, opened a primary care clinic, Optimal Healthcare, in December. The couple believe more mid-level providers will branch out, opening private family practices out of frustration with the bureaucracy of institutional medicine.
Another local clinic with a similar care philosophy has been open just over a year. The Walk-In Clinic leases space inside a Rosauers supermarket on East Sprague in Spokane Valley. Billing itself as a minor care clinic, Walk-In Clinic also offers primary care and is staffed full-time by certified PA Rita Warner.
Source: The Inlander
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