{"id":667151,"date":"2026-03-19T16:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/667151\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:20:11","slug":"hb-2444-will-help-pharmacists-close-arizonas-care-gaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/667151\/","title":{"rendered":"HB 2444 will help pharmacists close Arizona\u2019s care gaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OPINION \u2014 In rural Arizona, access to care often comes down to what is available close to home, and for many patients, that is their local pharmacy.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona faces primary care shortages in all 15 counties. In some areas, patients travel up to 70 miles just to see a provider. On the ground, that looks like delayed care. Small problems becoming bigger ones because the right care was not available at the right time.<\/p>\n<p>Pharmacists are ready to help close these gaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OPINION \u2014 In rural Arizona, access to care often comes down to what is available close to home,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":667152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,282076,1587,282075,282074,59809,27500,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-667151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-state-board-of-pharmacy","tag-az","tag-hb-2444","tag-house-bill-2444","tag-pharmacists","tag-pharmacy","tag-phoenix","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116256756612817538","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}