{"id":109009,"date":"2026-05-20T19:24:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=109009"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:22:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:22:03","slug":"a-homegrown-solution-to-rhode-islands-primary-care-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2026\/05\/a-homegrown-solution-to-rhode-islands-primary-care-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Parlange: A homegrown solution to Rhode Island’s primary care crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KINGSTON, R.I.\u2014May 20, 2026\u2014While there may be no quick fix to Rhode Island’s decades in the making primary care crisis, at the heart of the problem, says 溏心vlog免费B站 President Marc Parlange, is the fact that Rhode Island does not produce enough of its own primary care physicians. In a recent Boston Globe opinion piece<\/a>, Parlange argues that a public medical school is not a luxury\u2014but a strategic necessity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parlange adds, the proposed public medical school at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2014one that is designed to recruit Rhode Islanders, train them in primary care, and prepare them to practice in Rhode Island communities\u2014must be part of a thoughtful combination of short- and long-term solutions, grounded in robust state investment, to strengthen Rhode Island\u2019s healthcare system today and secure it into the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a separate piece<\/a> authored by Pawtucket Mayor Don Grebien and Central Falls Mayor Maria Rivera, which ran in The Valley Breeze, the two mayors discuss the challenge too many families face accessing affordable care or even finding a doctor. With communities on the front lines of a worsening primary care crisis, they state doing better starts with increasing the supply of trained primary care doctors in Rhode Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A public medical school is not a luxury \u2014 it is necessary to help solve R.I.\u2019s health care crisis
The Boston Globe, May 20, 2026<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Read the story<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New 溏心vlog免费B站 medical school can help address access to health in Blackstone Valley
The Valley Breeze, May 20, 2026<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Read the story<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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KINGSTON, R.I.\u2014May 20, 2026\u2014While there may be no quick fix to Rhode Island’s decades in the making primary care crisis, at the heart of the problem, says 溏心vlog免费B站 President Marc Parlange, is the fact that Rhode Island does not produce enough of its own primary care physicians. In a recent Boston Globe opinion piece, Parlange […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":109015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[1911,1914,1913,1915],"class_list":["post-109009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","category-uncategorized","tag-campus-improvement","tag-graduate","tag-public-engagement","tag-undergraduate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109009"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109032,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109009\/revisions\/109032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}