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Cover of The Blue Ridge Academic Health Group’s Spring 2024 Report 27, titled “The Workforce Crisis: Innovative Approaches to Address Current Shortfalls and Prepare for a Sustainable Future,” over a layered mountain landscape at sunset.
March 20, 2024

Health care workforce shortages prompt Blue Ridge Academic Health Group report

The Blue Ridge Academic Health Group — formed in 1997 by leaders of several of the nation’s top academic health centers — studies and reports on issues of fundamental importance to improving the health care system. Its new report sets out innovations that health centers can undertake to address the ongoing health care workforce crisis.

By Paul Govern
Healthcare professional in blue scrubs holding a tablet, overlaid with glowing digital medical interface graphics including a heart-monitor waveform, hearts, lungs, and connected data points.
March 16, 2023

Digital technologies focus of new academic health report

A new report by the Blue Ridge Academic Health Group makes recommendations for the opportunities and challenges that the ongoing digital technology revolution brings to academic health centers.

By Nikki Bartholomew Troxclair
May 18, 2022

New Blue Ridge Academic Health Group report outlines challenging economic outlook for academic health centers

Recommendations for academic health centers in addressing a challenging economic outlook are set out in a new report issued by the Blue Ridge Academic Health Group.

By Paul Govern
White, featureless figures stand in a group behind a larger figure whose body is covered with repeated colorful “HELP” lettering and whose head is a multicolored ball with partial lettering.
March 23, 2020

Report sheds light on U.S. behavioral health crisis

A growing need for behavioral health services compounded by limited access to care has created a health crisis in the United States, according to a report issued by leaders of academic health centers across the country.

By Kelsey Herbers
A healthcare professional sits at a desk with their head resting on one hand beside a laptop, papers, a coffee cup, and a stethoscope.
January 25, 2018

National report sounds alarm on clinician burnout

A new report issued by the Blue Ridge Academic Health Group calls clinician burnout a “hidden epidemic” and suggests that addressing it should be one of the highest priorities across the healthcare industry.

By Leigh MacMillan