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221. Kentucky Homeplace - Models & Innovations
Reviewed: Oct 6, 2025

A community health worker initiative to improve the health of rural Appalachian Kentucky residents who have deficits in health resources and health status, including high levels of cancer, heart disease, hypertension, asthma, and diabetes.

...guidelines for publicly funded CHW program evaluation and research Staff retention in grant-funded or annual...

222. Telehealth Brings Important Services to Rural Long-Term Care Facilities - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Aug 31, 2022

A skilled nursing facility in New Hampshire and national experts share the benefits telehealth services can bring to the residents and staff of rural long-term care facilities as well as the challenges some facilities face in providing these services. - The Rural Monitor

...guidelines, toolkits, and best practices for using telehealth with older adults. Archbald-Pannone said it's important...

223. Understanding the Rural Swing Bed: More than Just a Reimbursement Policy - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Aug 11, 2021

"Swing bed" is that oft-heard phrase describing not a physical hospital bed, but post-acute care for the rural patient who is well enough to leave the acute care hospital but not well enough to be safe at home. In this 2-part story, experts and hospital administrators review the swing bed program's historical implementation and provide stories and examples of the value this over 40-year-old healthcare delivery and reimbursement model brings to patients, to the hospitals providing their care, and ultimately to rural communities. - The Rural Monitor

...guidelines for swing beds in Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), "a 'swing-bed' is a change...

224. Recovering from a Cybersecurity Attack and Protecting the Future in Small, Rural Health Organizations - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Oct 4, 2023

Rural hospitals are becoming increasingly vulnerable to attempts to penetrate information systems to create havoc, steal data, or hold information "hostage" for a monetary ransom. Two Critical Access Hospital leaders discuss attacks at their organizations and how they are working to prevent future attacks. An information technology compliance expert also highlights actions organizations can take to better protect themselves from cyber-attacks. - The Rural Monitor

...guidelines, practices, and methodologies to strengthen the healthcare and public health (HPH) sector's cybersecurity...

225. The Codes of Care: How Words and Numbers Have Transformative Power for Rural Healthcare - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Apr 13, 2022

The greatest opportunity to tell the rural healthcare delivery story is an opportunity often missed — and that opportunity involves translating clinical documentation into medical codes. In addition to describing how the story and quality of clinical care gets translated from words into alphanumeric numbers, medical coding experts also pointed to aligned efforts to familiarize those in graduate medical education settings with the impact of their clinical documentation. - The Rural Monitor

...guidelines stating that the query content must be nonleading. For example, this message might be used...

226. Increasing Knowledge of Palliative Care in South Dakota - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
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

...guidelines. When we all work together, it creates a consistent message and furthers the work...

227. What's MAT Got to Do with It? Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Rural America - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Mar 21, 2018

An important aspect of the opioid crisis is opioid use disorder. This in-depth story focuses on the science behind the disorder and the use of an evidence-based treatment: MAT, or medication-assisted treatment. - The Rural Monitor

...guidelines, acknowledge that MAT benefits exceed drug diversion risks. Education regarding drug diversion is part...

228. Educating Future Healthcare Providers: Health Literacy Opportunities for Webside Manners - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Mar 9, 2022

Health literacy experts share that as healthcare delivery moves from bedside to webside, new opportunities for health literacy education arise. Emphasizing the need to swap medical jargon for plain language, educators outlined best practices for teaching health literacy principles to healthcare profession trainees. - The Rural Monitor

...guidelines," she said. Darling also shared that both resident and medical student telehealth electives are now available...

229. North Carolina High Needs Service Bonus (HNSB) - Funding
Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis

Service bonuses for qualified providers in North Carolina without educational loan debt. Recipients must agree to provide comprehensive primary care services in eligible facilities serving high need patients in rural communities.

...guidelines Eligibility requirements: Employment start date is within 5 years of submitting the application Free...

230. North Carolina Loan Repayment Program (NC LRP) - Funding
Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis

Loan repayment assistance in exchange for providing comprehensive primary care services in eligible facilities serving high need patients in rural and other approved communities of North Carolina.

...guidelines Eligibility requirements: Employment start date is within 5 years of submitting the application Have...