Chase Reece, BSHP '24

  • March 20

    Healthcare professional shortages are a major problem for rural areas, especially physician shortages. Physicians are often understaffed and overworked, and this can lead to long wait times for patients. A potentially innovative solution is Collaborative Drug Therapy Management, which is an approach that allows physicians to delegate certain tasks to pharmacists through a collaborative approach Read more

  • March 18

    Today, I looked into background information about the All of Us research program and biorepository and also spent time collecting and analyzing demographics about Asian populations in our state. The All of Us program is managed by the National Institute of Health, and its main goal is to improve medical care through individualized and targeted Read more

  • Week 9 Reflection

    To recap this week, I worked on collecting and analyzing health data for our communities that centered around cardiovascular disease and diabetes. These are both important health issues for rural communities, and rural residents are often impacted by these diseases at a greater rate than urban residents. This disparity is due to a variety of Read more

  • March 15

    While at my internship today, I worked to finalize the health data and also collected physician data for each community. The physician data that was specifically collected included the number of primary care physicians, number of cardiologists, number of endocrinologists, physician rate per 100,000 residents, and the percentage of each that accept medicare and medicaid. Read more

  • March 14

    During my time in the office today, I continued collecting and analyzing the cardiovascular disease and diabetes data. Unfortunately, many of the Archway communities experienced worse health outcomes across all rankings. However, this is not surprising due to the many complex factors associated with rurality that influence the health of a community. There were a Read more