Health Care Heroes 2025
PHYSICIAN: Dr. Kathleen Gordon
Atwood Medical Associates doctor of osteopathic medicine and internist
What led you to choose health care as your profession? I love helping people and solving sometimes-confusing symptoms to reach a diagnosis that will help them to get healthy and stay healthy.
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How have you helped boost the quality of access to health care? I spend many hours on phone calls with specialists and insurance companies to get the best possible treatments for my many patients.
What is the biggest challenge you and your organization are facing this year? We have faced pressure on obtaining coverage and treatments we feel are most necessary to keep our patients healthy.
What more do you feel the state can do to help further support the health care sector in Rhode Island? Higher reimbursement rates and increased primary care providers would be a good start to keeping more access to health care.
Are you confident patient access and quality of care will improve in Rhode Island over the next five years? Why or why not? I am hopeful that it will.
