Toolkits Search Results for: community health workers
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Reviewed: Jun 8, 2023
Introduction to telehealth models that help develop the rural workforce, especially through recruitment and retention.
...communities that are facing shortages of physicians and specialists, telehealth can be used as a tool to promote workforce recruitment. For example, telehealth models can allow rural communities to implement alternative staffing models. Many telehealth...
Reviewed: May 15, 2024
Information on promising and evidence-based models that can be considered to expand availability of mental health services in rural areas.
...communities and include strategies such as training, recruitment, and retention. This section describes two models to increase the availability of mental health services in rural areas. Models in this section: Non-Clinical Mental Health Workers...
Added: Jul 16, 2020
Describes community paramedicine programs that focus on high utilizers and other patients who are not well-served by emergency medical service transportation to the emergency department.
...health departments to develop pilot programs or payment models that facilitate alternative destination services. Examples of Rural Community Paramedicine Programs Reducing Use of Emergency Resources The Regional Emergency Medical Services Authority (REMSA) in Washoe County...
Reviewed: Jun 8, 2023
Describes licensing and credentialing considerations for rural telehealth programs.
...Health Policy also provides details about cross-state licensing for every state . Rural communities seeking to streamline the telehealth credentialing process should be aware of credentialing by proxy . Credentialing by proxy can help rural programs...
Added: Oct 22, 2021
Information on how office-based opioid treatment (OBOT) programs can improve access to primary care services, mental health counseling, and treatment services for people with opioid use disorder (OUD) in rural areas.
...worker, may help coordinate services. OBOTs can allow patients to take home buprenorphine and offer naltrexone onsite. Unlike opioid treatment programs (OTPs), OBOTs are not required to integrate behavioral health services into their model. However...
Reviewed: Jun 21, 2018
An overview of programs for children and families that may need to be integrated as part of a rural health and human services integration program.
...community agencies. These agencies receive funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide programs that support the mental, social, and emotional development of children. Early Head Start serves infants and toddlers...
Reviewed: Jun 21, 2018
Information about the one-stop shop model including examples and implementation considerations.
...Health Care in Five California Community Health Centers Document This policy brief analyzes five community health centers in California that are implementing one-stop shops for both physical and behavioral healthcare. Best practices and suggestions...
Reviewed: Jun 21, 2018
Learn about mobile unit models of services integration including examples and resources to learn more.
...Health Services (PHS) Act funds Community/Migrant Health Centers (C/MHC) to serve migrant and seasonal agricultural workers and their families through fixed-site health centers, mobile clinics, and voucher programs. Mobile health clinics are effective...
Reviewed: Jun 4, 2019
This page provides an overview of demographic changes in the U.S. related to aging, including the percentage of older adults in rural communities.
...workers, and family caregivers often work together to provide tailored and coordinated care to older adults. Access to health care is critical for older adults to age in place. Because many retirees are choosing...
Added: Nov 14, 2022
Describes how Methodist Fremont Health, a hospital in rural Dodge County, Nebraska, responded to flooding that left all roads in and out of the city inaccessible in March of 2019.
...Health was well-positioned; although not typical for a hospital its size, it maintains its own warehouse in the community. This facility, which is in a separate location from the hospital campus complex, contains certain...