Rural Monitor Search Results for: EMS
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Date: Sep 7, 2016
Diane Calmus, Government Affairs and Policy Manager at the National Rural Health Association, explores the need for a new hospital model to help rural communities gain and maintain access to emergency medical services. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS. But this cannot be expecting more services for less compensation. EMS plays an essential...
Date: Aug 17, 2022
A partnership between a Federally Qualified Health Center and the local ambulance district in Washington County, Missouri lets chronically ill patients access preventive care from the comfort of home. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS education programs at MAC work with the MIHN and other EMS providers in the region...
Date: Sep 20, 2023
The health impacts of extreme heat events are being felt by both urban and rural populations. But experts say the factors contributing to urban and rural vulnerability may differ significantly — and some of the most promising strategies for mitigating the impacts in urban areas may not be as useful in sparsely populated rural counties. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS HeatTracker , released in August on the National EMS Information System (NEMSIS) website, provides information...
Date: Oct 3, 2018
On average, rural residents wait twice as long for emergency medical services than urban residents. Stop the Bleed is a trauma training initiative that teaches laypeople how to pack wounds and apply tourniquets in order to improve survival rates until medical attention arrives. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS personnel serving rural Nebraska. "A lot of our rural EMS are volunteers," she said...
Date: Dec 24, 2019
Articles on mental health, eye care, school-based telehealth, rural EMS and more made it onto the year's most-read list. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS system and created consensus about what EMS would look like in their town. Published...
Date: Sep 7, 2016
Gary Wingrove, President of the Paramedic Foundation, discusses the vital role emergency medical services play in rural communities, and the role community paramedics can fill in a changing healthcare system. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS leaders, answering the question What do the recent changes to – and the transformation of – rural...
Date: May 27, 2015
What rural hospitals can do to stay viable in difficult times, with insights from Charles Owens, executive director of the Georgia Department of Community Health, State Office of Rural Health. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS). When a rural hospital closes, EMS may become the main source of healthcare for the area...
Date: Feb 21, 2024
CommHIT, a nonprofit based at the Kennedy Space Center, has worked at the intersection of rural health and technology for over a decade. Now, as an awardee of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) Rural Public Health Workforce Training Network (RPHWTN) grant program, the organization is assisting Florida partners with workforce development initiatives and technology-related training programs. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS field — noting that EMS workers are disproportionately male, while many CHWs are women of color...
Date: Dec 26, 2018
Articles on health workforce issues, the opioid crisis, the social determinants of health, domestic violence, trauma/EMS, and palliative care all made it onto the year's most-read list. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS Dilemma Limited funding, expanding coverage areas, and a cultural shift in volunteerism across generations...
Date: Jan 27, 2021
Barbara Leonard and Ruta Kadonoff of the Maine Health Access Foundation (MeHAF) discuss how their foundation provided unrestricted COVID-19 grants and open competitive grants and partnered with other philanthropies pooling together COVID-19 response funds. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS and telehealth activities Postponed grantee reporting requirements and allowed grantees to use funding for immediate...