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101. Advancing Transcultural Care through Cultural Competency - Resources
Date: Jan 2022

Profiles St. Charles Madras Hospital, a Critical Access Hospital in Jefferson County, Oregon. Discusses the hospital's efforts to establish cultural competence through the implementation of components of evidence-based guidelines to improve the American Indian and Hispanic or Latino patient experiences.

...guidelines to improve the American Indian and Hispanic or Latino patient experiences. --- Advancing Transcultural Care...

102. Implementation of Antibiotic Stewardship Core Elements at Small and Critical Access Hospitals - Resources
Date: Jul 2017

Presents strategies for implementing antibiotic stewardship programs in Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs). Includes examples of improved antibiotic-use strategies and guidelines for the prescribing physician, nurses, and pharmacists.

...guidelines for the prescribing physician, nurses, and pharmacists. --- Implementation of Antibiotic Stewardship Core Elements at Small...

103. Pain Management - Resources
Reviewed: Apr 2025

Details the Indian Health Service guidelines on pain management. Features information on chronic pain, patient assessment, opioids, and other factors pertaining to the treatment of pain.

...guidelines on pain management. Features information on chronic pain, patient assessment, opioids, and other factors...

104. Addressing Chronic Disease Through Community Health Workers: A Policy and Systems-Level Approach - Resources
Date: Apr 2015

Provides guidelines for the integration of community health workers (CHWs) into community based chronic disease prevention programs. Includes examples from a variety of CHW programs, some of which serve rural communities.

...guidelines for the integration of community health workers (CHWs) into community based chronic disease prevention...

105. How Actual Practice of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Aligns with the Recommended National Scope of Practice in Rural Versus Urban Areas of the U.S. - Resources
Date: Feb 2022

Results of a study examining the extent to which EMS professionals perform skills that correspond to their credential levels, and determining whether there are variations in adherence to guidelines between agencies serving rural or urban populations and agencies with unpaid versus paid staffing models. Examines credentials for emergency medical responders, emergency medical technicians (EMTs), advanced EMTs, and paramedics, and uses data from EMS encounters in 2018 from 1,056 EMS agencies nationally. Features statistics on various procedures and predictors of performing a procedure within the scope of practice model, with breakdowns by 4 levels of population density.

...guidelines between agencies serving rural or urban populations and agencies with unpaid versus paid staffing...

106. Strategies for Superbugs: Antibiotic Stewardship for Rural Hospitals - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Mar 22, 2017

Resistant bacteria, or "superbugs," are a cause of major medical illness and death. Government and accreditation agencies, as well as infectious disease experts, believe hospital antibiotic stewardship programs are the answer to blunting the impact and development of these germs. Despite limited resources, rural and Critical Access Hospitals are activating their stewardship programs. - The Rural Monitor

...guidelines on stewardship, it's all based on large, academic medical centers for the most...

107. Recruitment and Retention: Overcoming the Rural EMS Dilemma - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Feb 7, 2018

Limited funding, expanding coverage areas, and a cultural shift in volunteerism across generations has motivated EMS leaders to find new recruitment methods that attract more personnel and keep them as long as possible. - The Rural Monitor

...guidelines are fairly cutting-edge and the ability to do more advanced paramedic skills, I think...

108. Collecting and Analyzing Quantitative and Qualitative Data - RHIhub Community Health Toolkit - Toolkits
Reviewed: Feb 29, 2024

Guidelines for collecting data as part of evaluating your rural community health program.

...Guidelines for collecting data as part of evaluating your rural community health program. --- Collecting and Analyzing...

109. Delta Dental of Iowa Grant Funding Programs - Funding
Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis

Funding for oral health and the integration of oral and overall health with the goal of strengthening and transforming the health and oral health of all Iowans.

...guidelines . Contact the foundation for information on eligibility for the various programs. Iowa Links to grant...

110. Strengthening the Workforce to Improve Pregnancy Outcomes in Rural Areas - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Jul 11, 2018

Obstetric services were available in 205 fewer rural hospitals in 2014 than in 2004. Realizing the importance of maternity and childbirth services, a CAH in Alaska works to keep its providers' skills sharp and a rural OB-GYN residency program in Wisconsin is beginning to train a new generation of physicians. - The Rural Monitor

...guidelines that ask facilities to be within a certain distance of another facility that can perform...