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Health Care Provider Recruitment And Retention In Millard County, Utah, Ronald T. Draper
Health Care Provider Recruitment And Retention In Millard County, Utah, Ronald T. Draper
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Millard County, Utah, rural and sparsely populated, continues to experience challenges in recruiting and retaining primary health care providers. My study addressed the lack of a rigorous and systemic analysis of this problem by collecting and analyzing data from a series of semi-structured interviews conducted between January and March 2019. These interviews were with nineteen of the twenty-four known health care providers who began practice in the county from the mid1980s to 2018, as well as with four administrators.
The study, taking advantage of this comprehensive analysis, provided a more extensive understanding of the root causes underlying the recruitment and …