Dr. Kelsey Davis-Humes, Family Practice Physician at Scotland County Hospital in Memphis, participated in the annual Missouri Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) Advocacy Day in Jefferson City on February 25, 2025. She joined approximately 80 family physicians/ residents advocating at the state capitol building.
“I had the privilege of meeting with both Rep. Greg Sharpe and Senator Cindy O’Laughlin’s office, advocating for primary care and the important role Family Physicians play in taking care of their patients health, especially in rural areas,” said Dr. Davis-Humes.
This year the Missouri Academy of Family Physicians focused on four initiatives with the legislators:
1. Patients Need a Physician to Lead the Health Care Team
2. Reducing Administrative Complexities Helps Patients
3. Safeguard the Physician and Patient Relationship
4. Patients Deserve Access to Quality Healthcare
MAFP believes to support these four initiatives that the pathway to better healthcare for Missourians is physician recruitment and retention efforts; decreasing administrative complexities in order to provide more time for patient care and help retain physicians; the practice of evidence based medicine, the patient-physician relationship, and the delivery of safe, timely and comprehensive care is the best way to safeguard the physician-patient relationship; and, every Missourian should have access to high-quality healthcare services regardless of social, economic, or political status, race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.
Founded in 1947, the Missouri Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) is a non-profit professional medical association with more than 2,400 physicians, residents, and medical students statewide. MAFP is the only state-level medical society devoted solely to primary care. Based in Jefferson City, MAFP is dedicated to optimizing the health of the patients, families and communities of Missouri by supporting family physicians in providing patient care, advocacy, education and research.
