Primary care is a cornerstone of vibrant, thriving communities and helps keep families healthy, children ready to learn, and adults able to pursue education and participate in the workforce. Primary care also saves lives, improves individual and community health, and regular access to primary care is consistently associated with positive health outcomes. All New Yorkers deserve access to equitable, affordable, high-quality primary care in their communities. Yet primary care in New York is undervalued and underfunded, leaving many individuals and communities without adequate care.

This Scorecard aims to support policy, programmatic and budgetary decision-marking by reporting on the current state of primary care in New York State. A detailed methodology, including data sources, definitions, and corresponding years of data, can be found in the Technical Appendix, and all data, disaggregated where possible, can be found in the Supplemental Data Tables.