title: Redesigning the rural health center: high tech, high touch, and low overhead.
abstract: To attract new physicians to rural primary care, new models of care are needed that are more effective, more sustainable, and replicable in smaller communities. This commentary provides a brief description of preliminary findings associated with a radically redesigned, low-overhead patient-centered medical-home practice model in North Carolina.
authors: Division of Family Medicine, Mountain Area Health Education Center, Asheville, North Carolina, USA. steve.crane@pardeehospital.org
authors: Steven
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authors: Crane
mesh_terms: D005160:Facility Design and Construction; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009657:North Carolina; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*