You’ve seen it in the news, in your communities, and in your practices…the opioid epidemic. On July 22, 2016, President Obama signed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) into law to increase access to providers for evidence-based treatment for opioid dependence including PAs and NPs. But as PAs are we doing our part? 

On Aug. 25, Gov. Bruce Rauner signed into law Senate Bill 1585 modernizing the state’s PA practice act, which will allow PAs (physician assistants) to expand their ability to provide top-notch medical care in Illinois.

Ochs owns her PA practice, Redding Integrative Medicine, and is a one-woman movement for practice ownership. She also wants to spread the word about integrative medicine’s natural approach and greater time with patients.

Every day of the three weeks he spent at the Maccabiah, including for practices prior to the competition getting underway, Brodkin, a PA in emergency medicine, held morning and evening clinic hours at the hotel housing most of the United States’ junior-division athletes.

On Friday, July 7, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf approved House Bill 424. The legislation amends the Pennsylvania Vital Statistics Law to allow PAs to sign death certificates.

Mittman has been a true trailblazer, creating opportunities for PAs to practice in the Air Force Reserves, to practice in the state of New Jersey, to join the New York State Society of PAs (NYSSPA), and to advocate for greater PA-NP collaboration, among other things.