Rural Monitor Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: Jun 12, 2024
While loneliness and social isolation are often viewed as individual problems or even personal failings, there is growing awareness of the structural factors contributing to widespread disconnection. Amid a national "loneliness epidemic," some rural leaders are finding ways to help their neighbors connect. - The Rural Monitor
...Loneliness and Social Isolation Are Common in Rural America. Is "Social Infrastructure" the Solution? - The...
Date: Sep 9, 2020
Contact tracing is an important step in preventing further spread of the coronavirus. Alaska's AHEC program, a center for public health in Washington, and a national public health foundation share their training strategies while an IHS hospital in Arizona discusses its in-person contact tracing initiative. - The Rural Monitor
...Contact Tracing: Training New Workers and Connecting with Rural Residents - The Rural Monitor --- Contact tracing...
Date: May 15, 2014
Healing Waters Greenhouse at Montana State Hospital helps patients increase social and work skills and decrease stress. - The Rural Monitor
...Greenhouse Nurtures Confidence and Skills in Montana Psychiatric Patients - The Rural Monitor --- Healing Waters Greenhouse...
Date: Jan 11, 2023
Oklahoma State University's College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation prepares future doctors to work in rural and tribal settings where healthcare workers are in short supply. - The Rural Monitor
...'A Life-Changing Partnership': First Tribally-Affiliated Medical School in the U.S. Builds Workforce Pipeline...
Date: Apr 8, 2020
In the past five years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has delivered two reports to Congress concerning traumatic brain injury. Concussions, or mild traumatic brain injuries, are common. With perspectives gained from their varied roles, five experts share information on concussions in rural America. - The Rural Monitor
...Concussion in Rural America: Experts Detail Injury and Recovery of Traumatic Brain Injury - The Rural...
Date: Jul 30, 2015
Wayne Myers, a retired pediatrician and rural medical educator, reflects on what the Medicare program's support for graduate medical education has meant for the rural physician workforce. - The Rural Monitor
...Medicare's Impact on Graduate Medical Education and the Rural Physician Workforce - The Rural Monitor...
Date: Feb 22, 2023
A community consortium in McKinley County brings together a range of local organizations and entities to take a holistic approach to recovery. - The Rural Monitor
...How One New Mexico County is Taking a Community-Wide Approach to Treating Alcohol and...
Date: Jan 9, 2019
Rural Americans of all ages often go without eye healthcare, a gap that has obvious consequences: blindness and low vision. National associations and an FQHC administrator talk about how rural vision care can be improved to increase quality of life and prevent disability in rural patients. - The Rural Monitor
...Eye Health Needs: Preserving the Eyesight of Rural and Underserved Populations - The Rural Monitor --- Rural...
Date: Dec 12, 2018
For many rural Americans, distance to a specialty healthcare center hundreds of miles away makes for a long, uncomfortable, and expensive trip. In the past several decades, dozens of charitable flight services have cropped up to transport rural veterans, cancer patients, the chronically ill, and even abused children to treatment. - The Rural Monitor
...Taking Flight: Charity Airplane Services Transport Patients to Medical Care - The Rural Monitor --- For many...
Date: May 29, 2024
Ten measures developed by the state's EMS office have been endorsed by the National Emergency Medical Services Quality Alliance. - The Rural Monitor
...With New EMS Quality Measures, Florida Aims to Have a National Impact on Rural Care...