Johns Hopkins wants to strengthen primary care focus

Johns Hopkins Medicine is world renowned for its cutting edge research and specialty medical centers. Now the Baltimore research hospital wants to get back to the basics — primary care.

“When people think primary care, Hopkins does not always spring to mind,” said Ronald Daniels, president of Johns Hopkins University.

Daniels and other top Hopkins leaders said Thursday they want the hospital and medical school to increase its focus on primary care, an area that has seen a decline in new physicians…