Rural Health
News by Topic: Culture and cultural competency
Jan 17, 2025 - Interviews an administrator at the Blandin Foundation, a rural-based and rural-serving private foundation in Minnesota. Discusses the culture of rural, challenges with grant writing for rural communities, community engagement, and goals for the future.
Source: The Daily Yonder
Jan 15, 2025 - The Washington American Indian Health Commission has requested the state consider a federal waiver for Medicaid coverage of traditional Indigenous healing practices following waivers successfully obtained by 4 other states in 2024. Discusses health disparities in Native communities and the funding benefits tribal health clinics would get from the waiver.
Source: Native News Online
Jan 13, 2025 - Highlights a new report on mental healthcare awareness among and access for veterans in New York. Discusses reductions in stigma, rural community focused networks, rural culture, and telehealth.
Source: North Country Public Radio
Jan 9, 2025 - Profiles a program specialist in the West Virginia University Rural Track in the School of Medicine. Describes the program and the challenges it aims to overcome including workforce shortages and rural-focused training for future physicians.
Source: My Buckhannon
Jan 2, 2025 - Discusses population shift trends in recent decades by older adults from urban to rural areas and reasons for those shifts including rural culture. Notes that healthcare access is a consideration for many.
Source: The Daily Yonder
Dec 31, 2024 - Highlights challenges in healthcare access for American Indian and Alaska Natives in South Dakota. Notes that underfunding of the Indian Health Service, historic discrimination, and rural-specific challenges lead to health disparities for South Dakota tribes.
Source: Public News Service
Dec 30, 2024 - Discusses projected healthcare workforce shortages across Illinois, particularly for rural areas. Highlights strategies to attract workforce including the benefits of rural living.
Source: WRAM
Dec 29, 2024 - Profiles a young emergency medical technician in Riverton, Wyoming who recently received national recognition from the American Ambulance Association. Describes her efforts to improve the relationship between local emergency services and residents of the Wind River Reservation. Details her work to bring an ambulance on standby to a local powwow, which also provided an opportunity for educational outreach and cultural exchange.
Source: Cowboy State Daily
Dec 24, 2024 - Interviews the director of a new project offering a dashboard of Indigenous health research. Describes how the project involves tribal communities, can impact Indigenous health disparities, future plans, and more.
Source: Native News Online
Dec 22, 2024 - Features harm reduction efforts by the Choctaw Nation in rural Oklahoma, funded through an Indian Health Service Community Opioid Intervention Pilot Project grant. Describes the implementation of a multi-pronged approach including street-level naloxone distribution and training, expanded availability of medication-assisted treatment, and support for culturally-relevant recovery services.
Source: Native News Online