Colorado Health Institute’s Jackie Colby presented new findings about rural nurse practitioners (APN) and physician assistants (PA) practice patterns at CRHC’s annual conference on Thursday, August 11. The new analysis, based on respondents to CHI’s previous APN and PA surveys, found that about 11 percent of both PAs and APNs work in rural areas yet there are nearly twice as many APNs as PAs overall. Read more.
