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251. Patient-Centered Communication to Improve Health Literacy - RHIhub Toolkit - Toolkits
Added: Sep 14, 2022

Describes the importance of implementing patient-centered approaches to improve health literacy and provides examples of successful programs.

...Guidelines for effectively implementing the teach-back method include: Be empathetic and use a caring...

252. Southwest Telehealth Resource Center Helps Rural Providers Connect - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Aug 23, 2017

The Southwest, with its large geographic area of deserts and mountains, faces unique challenges when it comes to telehealth. The Southwest Telehealth Resource Center assists the region's healthcare providers through training programs, technical assistance, webinars, and blogs. - The Rural Monitor

...guidelines, best practices, payment, and program implementation. Weinstein also created a video for Summit Healthcare...

253. Indiana Department of Homeland Security: Emergency Medical Services - Organizations
Reviewed: Dec 4, 2025

Summary information for the organization Indiana Department of Homeland Security: Emergency Medical Services, including related information from this organization listed on the RHIhub website.

...Provides training opportunities, guidelines on various EMS protocols, testing, and resources for EMS directors. Indiana...

254. The Opioid Epidemic: Testing the Limits of Rural Healthcare - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: May 18, 2016

Opioid addiction continues to devastate communities across the country. However, there are some aspects of rural living that leave small communities even more vulnerable to the ever-growing epidemic. - The Rural Monitor

...guidelines and a strong focus on the danger of painkillers. Physicians in numerous states are now following...

255. 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...

256. Rural Health Clinic Program at 45 Years: Created for Access and Still Delivering Care - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Oct 26, 2022

After a 1965 public law created the Medicare and Medicaid programs, many rural residents insured by these government health programs were unable to access care. This challenge was remedied by another public law: the Rural Health Clinic Services Act of 1977. Using a historical framework, rural health policy experts, researchers, and clinicians reviewed the Act's impact on outpatient healthcare delivery in rural America. - The Rural Monitor

...guidelines prevented certified clinics from fully recovering incurred and otherwise allowable costs. "Red Tape": Costly...

257. Alcohol Use Disorder: Addressing Stigma and Treatment Access in Rural America - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Aug 26, 2020

From decreasing stigma to increasing treatment access and the impact of COVID-19, experts and rural healthcare organizations speak out on alcohol use and misuse in rural America. - The Rural Monitor

...Guideline on Alcohol Withdrawal in June. Second, Jarvis said there are anecdotal accounts of increasing...

258. Increasing Child Safety Seat Use - RHIhub Toolkit - Toolkits
Added: Mar 27, 2024

Learn more about evidence-based strategies and promising approaches being used in rural communities to increase child safety seat use, including safety seat laws and child seat distribution and education programs.

...guidelines for the age at which a child can transition out of a child safety...

259. Pulmonary Health in Rural America: Cause and Impact of Work-Related Lung Diseases - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Oct 4, 2017

What's in the air in the rural workplace? From grain dust to rock dust to hospital cleaning chemicals, all these particles have potential to cause chronic lung diseases. But, there are keys to prevention. - The Rural Monitor

...guidelines for these strategies are found in federal regulations, educational programs, and onsite monitoring for many...

260. Office-Based Spirometry: Key to Diagnosing Rural COPD Patients - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Nov 20, 2019

Chronic obstructive lung disease, or COPD, is a disease with a stronghold in rural America: almost double the prevalence and double the mortality rates compared to large urban areas. Though it is a condition with no cure, it's a condition that has treatments — and hope — making proper diagnosis by spirometry imperative. - The Rural Monitor

...Guidelines Pulmonary function tests. Based on an international standard referred to as the GOLD criteria...