Virtual Primary Care Forum

The virtual forum featured  two sessions. The first session will involve national speakers who provided a broad perspective about the  COVID-19 experience – the evolving impact on primary care and  the changes necessitated  by the pandemic.  The second session included  panel members who represent local payor organizations. They responded to the information presented by the national speakers and gave a local perspective on how payors view, and are planning to  address, primary care as  a vital component of our health care system in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. How will they  partner in the efforts to  strengthen investments in primary care?   

Critical Questions for the forum discussion included:

• How has primary care faired during Covid-19? What are the long-term implications?
• What are the lessons learned for  building  a sustainable primary care system?
• What is the additional capacity needed in primary care?  What changes are necessary across the system to strengthen practices, especially to enhance  providers’ ability to manage in times of crisis?
• How can we scale and sustain best practices and successful innovations shaped during the crisis?