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261. BuchananCares Program: A Team-based Care Pilot Led by a Rural Community Hospital and Local Pharmacist - Resources
Date: Jun 2022

Describes BuchananCares, a collaboration among health professionals from the Appalachian College of Pharmacy, Buchanan General Hospital in rural Virginia, and the Virginia Department of Health. Designed to reduce patient readmissions and improve medication use for patients with COPD, diabetes, heart failure, and pneumonia.

...diabetes, heart failure, and pneumonia. --- BuchananCares Program: A Team-based Care Pilot Led by a Rural...

262. Place Effects and Chronic Disease Rates in a Rural State: Evidence from a Triangulation of Methods - Resources
Date: Sep 2020

Investigates the relationship between place effects, or food environment, and prevalence of chronic diseases in West Virginia. Features data and statistics on how areas with access to different food vendors (hot spots) and those that lack food providers (cold spots) impact diabetes and obesity rates, with information broken down by rural or urban setting.

...diabetes and obesity rates, with information broken down by rural or urban setting. --- Place Effects...

263. Race and Place: Urban-Rural Differences in Health for Racial and Ethnic Minorities - Resources
Date: Mar 2000

Investigates urban-rural disparities for racial and ethnic minorities in six health areas: infant mortality, cancer screening and management, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, HIV infection, and child and adult immunizations. Provides data for the years 1991-1995.

...diabetes, HIV infection, and child and adult immunizations. Provides data for the years 1991-1995. --- Race...

264. Rural Health Literacy: Understanding Skills and Demands is Key to Improvement - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Apr 19, 2017

Every rural provider has a horror story attached to low health literacy. Health literacy, or getting, understanding, and using health information, involves two sides. Researchers and experts explain that by understanding both the skills and demands side of health literacy, providers and organizations can help their patients move to improved health. - The Rural Monitor

...diabetic patient who was told to decrease sugar intake by stopping their six daily sodas...

265. WVU Medicine Opens New Wound Care Clinic in New Martinsville, Expanding Rural Access - News
Date: Mar 4, 2026

A new wound care clinic has opened in rural West Virginia. Notes that rural residents are more likely to experience diabetes and vascular conditions, diseases associated with slow to heal wounds and increased risk of infection. Source: WTOV 9.

...diabetes and vascular conditions, diseases associated with slow to heal wounds and increased risk of infection...

266. Critical Need Counties in Broadband & Health - Rural 2017 - Resources
Date: 2017

Identifies counties with a critical need related to both broadband access and health, based on data related to broadband access, internet adoption, diabetes, and obesity. Only counties with a majority of the population living in rural areas and a total population equal to or exceeding 15,000, the median population for rural counties were considered for inclusion.

...diabetes, and obesity. Only counties with a majority of the population living in rural areas...

267. Queen Anne's County Mobile Integrated Community Health (MICH) Program - Models & Innovations
Reviewed: May 8, 2025

To reduce emergency services, emergency department visits, and hospital readmissions, the Queen Anne's County MICH Program connects patients to a paramedic, community health nurse, peer recovery specialist, and pharmacist.

...diabetes education. Another CareFirst grant helps MICH connect patients with fresh produce. The MICH program...

268. Need for Addressing Chronic Disease in Rural Areas - RHIhub Toolkit - Toolkits
Added: Jun 14, 2024

Learn about the need for addressing chronic diseases in rural areas of the U.S., including prevalence and risk factors.

...diabetes-related deaths and only 62% of rural communities have access to diabetes self-management...

269. Rural Health Disparities: Contemporary Solutions for Persistent Rural Public Health Challenges - Resources
Date: Jun 2025

Special issue of Preventing Chronic Disease featuring articles that examine rural health disparities and discuss rural public health strategies to address cancer, diabetes, and other chronic conditions, and to promote physical activity.

...diabetes, and other chronic conditions, and to promote physical activity. --- Rural Health Disparities: Contemporary Solutions...

270. Geographic and Social Factors Associated with Chronic Disease Self-Management Program Participation: Going the "Extra-Mile" for Disease Prevention - Resources
Date: Mar 2019

Analyzes geographic and social factors related to Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) and Diabetes Self-Management Program (DSMP) participants in rural and urban areas of Illinois. Compares rural and urban statistics describing CDSMP and DSMP participants by race, education, weekly physical activity, program enrollment, sessions attended, and more.

...Diabetes Self-Management Program (DSMP) participants in rural and urban areas of Illinois. Compares rural...