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In the United States, an independent practice association (IPA) is an association of independent physicians, or other organizations that contracts with independent care delivery organizations, and provides services to managed care organizations on a negotiated per capita rate, flat retainer fee, or negotiated fee-for-service basis. [1] [2]
The company's physicians practice preventive medicine and personalized primary-care medicine. The national network consists of 1,100 physicians serving over 380,000 patients in 45 states and the District of Columbia. [1] Each physician cares for up to 600 patients as opposed to the average 2,500-3,500 patients in a traditional primary-care ...
In the United States, the number of medical students entering family practice training dropped by 50% between 1997 and 2005. [18] In 1998, half of internal medicine residents chose primary care, but by 2006, over 80% became specialists. [19]
The number of students entering family medicine residency training has fallen from a high of 3,293 in 1998 to 1,172 in 2008, according to National Residency Matching Program data. Fifty-five family medicine residency programs have closed since 2000, while only 28 programs have opened. [30]
A general practitioner (GP) or family physician is a doctor who is a consultant in general practice.. GPs provide personal, family, and community-orientated comprehensive primary care that includes diagnosis, continues over time and is anticipatory as well as responsive
Fitra is an Arabic word that is usually translated as "original disposition", "natural constitution", or "innate nature". [1] The root verb F-Ṭ-R means to split or cleave, also found in Iftar (breaking the fast), Eid al-Fitr, and in the 82nd chapter of the Quran (Surah Al-Infitar - The Splitting).
BP's worst environmental catastrophe was the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the largest accidental release of oil into marine waters in history, which leaked about 4.9 million barrels (210 million US gal; 780,000 m 3) of oil, [14] causing severe environmental, human health, and economic consequences [15] and serious legal and public ...
PA Child Care is a juvenile detention center [1] in Pittston Township, Pennsylvania. It was opened in February 2003. [2] It has a sister company, Western PA Child Care, [3] in Butler County, Pennsylvania. Treatment at both facilities is provided by Mid Atlantic Youth Services, and both were involved in the kids for cash scandal in 2008.