Website Search Results for: rural referral center
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Added: Jul 16, 2020
Learn about community paramedicine programs that focus on patients who have been recently discharged from the hospital and can benefit from follow-up care.
...referrals from providers whose patients are hospitalized and conducted home visits within 72 hours of discharge. At each visit, the paramedic also worked with the patient's family or other caregivers to discuss how best...
Reviewed: Aug 7, 2020
In Vermont, a statewide coordinated approach offers comprehensive opioid use disorder treatment.
...rural areas as well as for the entire state, the Care Alliance for Opioid Addictions Initiative (2012-2016) was created by addiction medicine specialists and public health leaders. This approach is unique in linking OBOT...
Reviewed: Feb 29, 2024
Guidelines for collecting data as part of evaluating your rural community health program.
...rural community health program. --- View more Collecting and Analyzing Quantitative and Qualitative Data To conduct a successful evaluation, community health programs will need to identify strategies for gathering appropriate data and evidence. The data collected...
Date: Apr 28, 2015
The Director of the Veterans Health Administration's Office of Rural Health (ORH) discusses the Veterans Choice Program and other VA activities underway to connect rural veterans to the healthcare services they need. - The Rural Monitor
...Centered Community Care and Veterans Access, Choice, & Accountability Act (no longer available online). From my perspective, the ultimate benefit is about veterans having the choice to obtain care in their local community in coordination with...
Date: Nov 14, 2018
Age and health status shouldn't be barriers to advance care planning. Advocates share that proactive discussions now can impact the ease of future decision-making about personal healthcare needs. - The Rural Monitor
...referral for a rural patient," she said. "We had the patient's address and a good map, but even an hour past the appointment time, we still hadn't located the patient's home. Then...
Information for rural providers on Medicare's BHIS billing for care management in a primary care setting for patients with behavioral health needs.
...referrals. Close Collaboration On-Site Physicians and other clinicians practice in the same facility with some shared systems, such as scheduling and medical records. They collaborate through consultation, co-create coordinated care plans for patients...
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
...centers in Hays, Kansas, and Glenwood Springs, Colorado, are interested in partnering to provide free flights to patients without insurance. "So, we're close," Langland confirmed. "There is no shortage of air ambulance companies...
Reviewed: May 9, 2022
Learn protective factors for suicide and how rural communities can strengthen protective factors to reduce risk of suicide.
...referral, and follow-up To ensure access to effective care, rural areas may integrate behavioral healthcare and suicide prevention into primary care settings and ensure providers have the information, training, and resources they need...
Date: Nov 16, 2022
Palliative care, designed to treat the symptoms of a serious illness at any stage of diagnosis, is associated with better outcomes like higher patient satisfaction. Despite these benefits, many people in rural communities cannot access these services or don't know what palliative care is. The South Dakota Palliative Care Network is working to increase knowledge of palliative care among rural healthcare professionals, nursing students, and community members. - The Rural Monitor
...referrals are needed, know where the specialty palliative care providers are located. "In those communities, we've been able to really provide that education around 'What is palliative care?'" Berke said. "It's really hard...
Date: Nov 1, 2022
The November 2022 episode of RHIhub's podcast features Jennifer Conner, DrPH, an associate professor with the Delta Population Health Institute at the NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University, and Jason Lofton, MD, a family physician at the Lofton Family Clinic in De Queen, Arkansas, in a discussion about rural obesity and how rural patients can live their healthiest life.
...center just to get out of his house. And, so sometimes people are willing, they just need that little bit of encouragement to say, you know, actually...