Healthy healthcare system key to W.Va’s future
Jenkins, executive director of the
"We're facing a tsunami if those 184,0000 (who got insurance through ACA) lose it," she said. "We're facing a tsunami if all those kids (showing early signs of diabetes) get it. And we're already facing the problem of how we're going to replace" retiring health care professionals.
"One of the things we've found that's bad is the median age of physicians - both allopathic and osteopathic - as well as our nurses is 50 years old, and they're retiring. We do not have enough students in the pipeline to take care of that."
Jenkins said WVRHC is all about the details - figuring out how to get information into the hands of people who need it or who can use it, analyzing healthcare trends and how they could impact the future.
When they started analyzing the data, she said one thing that stood out is how so many children in
"That's a bad thing. It would bankrupt the state 15 or 20 years from now when we start having (young people) losing limbs, showing signs of glaucoma in their 20s and 30s," she said, pointing out those with limited financial resources tend to eat a lot of carbohydrates. "The gandparents are scraping by, not getting a lot of assistance (and the kids are) developing diabetes because they're not getting any fresh foods and they're not getting a lot of physical activity."
Then there's the potential repeal of the ACA: She said 184,000 West Virginians were able to get insurance through the Obama administration's health care plan.
"Right now in
She said
"The overall thing people don't realize about rural health care .
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