Monday, May 16, 2011

Access to Health Care Improving

The Northwest Local Health Integration Network is painting a rosy health care picture for the region.

CEO Laura Kokocinski says in 2009, 86 percent of residents had a primary care provider.

"The number of people who have a primary care provider has improved since those numbers in 2009," says Kokocinski. "There's certainly been an improvement in the number of primary care providers whether it's not nurse practitioners or physicians."

Kokocinski suggests more people have a health care provider now than they did two years ago.