A Vision for Optometry in The National Health Service Corps

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  • April 23, 2020
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  • Wujciak, Barbara
    • Affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health, Public Health Leadership Program
Abstract
  • Less than 17 percent of community health centers in the United States have an eye care provider on staff. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has made additional funding available to community health centers for facility and program expansion in 2014. The National Health Service Corps has traditionally redistributed practitioners to areas which are underserved by health care providers. The re-inclusion of optometrists in the student Loan Repayment Program of the National Health Service Corps will add to the primary health care services offered by community health centers thus creating a new revenue stream for the facility and help to relieve the increasing debt burden of recent optometry school graduates. Patients will benefit from having on-site primary eye care practitioners to correct vision disorders and to diagnose and manage eye disease.
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  • Paper type: Policy
  • Track: Leadership
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  • Evarts, Lori
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  • Peele, Rodney
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  • Master of Public Health
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • 2015
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