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Reviewed: Apr 2, 2025
University of Washington program that places medical students in a rural medical setting prior to beginning schooling and allows them to return regularly to learn and work within the same community.
...guidelines as they come from government agencies and from the University of Washington at large...
Date: May 3, 2017
From over-the-counter medication use, to decisions about personal or family disease treatments, health literacy impacts the most everyday of health decisions. But, distance and internet connectivity challenges make it difficult for rural residents to get health information. To navigate health information gaps, school nurses, newspapers, public libraries, churches, public health departments, and hub-and-spoke academic institutions are working in creative ways. - The Rural Monitor
...guidelines about word choice and plain language are now second nature to patient care at their...
Reviewed: May 21, 2024
The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center created Health Extension Regional Offices (HEROs) whose agents link people in rural communities to local health and social services.
...guidelines in cardiovascular disease prevention. HERO agents are paid, full-time employees. Their payment source...
Date: Oct 17, 2018
In this in-depth story, multiple clinical issues surrounding domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) in rural settings are discussed by providers and researchers. Rural prevalence rates, provider knowledge gaps, and healthcare expenditures are also reviewed. - The Rural Monitor
...Guidelines that included DV/IPV screening. Dr. Gregory Della Rocca, orthopedic trauma surgeon. Dr. Gregory Della...
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...
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...
Date: Jan 9, 2019
Rural Americans of all ages often go without eye healthcare, a gap that has obvious consequences: blindness and low vision. National associations and an FQHC administrator talk about how rural vision care can be improved to increase quality of life and prevent disability in rural patients. - The Rural Monitor
...Guidelines Rural Eye Healthcare: Optometrist Explains the Benefits of the Medical Model of Optometry Source...
Reviewed: Feb 29, 2024
Overview of the importance of data use and management and examples of data management tools for rural community health programs.
...guidelines for affiliating with new organizations. IRB submissions often involve paying a fee and completing...
Reviewed: Feb 7, 2024
In Project ECHO, primary care providers and specialists work as a team to manage chronic complex conditions of rural patients and to increase the knowledge base through shared case studies.
...guidelines by emailing Project ECHO's replication staff . Often, participation in a series of learning...
Reviewed: Jun 8, 2022
Patients with chronic respiratory conditions can benefit from rural pulmonary rehabilitation program, like that established in 1989 at Boone County Health Center, Albion, Nebraska.
...guidelines : moderate, severe, or very severe COPD as determined by spirometry performed either at BCHC...