Rural Monitor Search Results for: EMS
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Date: Mar 6, 2019
Rural healthcare facilities must plan and prepare for a wide range of natural and man-made disasters. A tornado in Iowa, an earthquake in Alaska, and an armed hostage standoff in South Dakota provide lessons in how rural providers can help ensure the safety of their patients, staff, and community in difficult circumstances. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS and air medical transport, pharmacies and primary care providers, is essential to being ready...
Date: Jun 13, 2018
The Oregon Washington Health Network and the Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center are addressing behavioral health challenges through peer counselors and heart disease/cancer prevention through community education. In addition, they're collaborating with local healthcare facilities and medical schools to improve recruitment and retention. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS response can take up to 30 minutes to reach a person in cardiac arrest...
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
...EMS and paramedics – who are the first eyes on affected patients – along with other neighboring...
Date: Jan 6, 2016
The Director of the Oregon Office of Rural Health shares his state's strategies to address common rural health issues and also newer epidemics such as opiate abuse. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS providers for training. The grants are modest – $300 for individuals and $2,500 for agencies...
Date: Jun 27, 2018
Moving the conversation away from finances, advocates share why general surgery plays an important role in a comprehensive rural population health strategy by delivering the right care in the right place at the right time. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS teams for other emergent surgical problems, along with fielding questions from other rural providers...
Date: Feb 10, 2021
Graham Adams, PhD, Chief Executive Officer of the South Carolina Office of Rural Health (SCORH), shares how his office is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and addressing social determinants of health like employment. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS, and all of those folks who are providing care directly. It's for construction...
Date: Jan 10, 2024
Rural health expert Tim Putnam, DHA, shares leadership perspectives and ideas gained from his roles as a rural hospital CEO, a member of a White House task force, and now in his academic healthcare policy position. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS provides. I'd always advocated that everybody needs to be an EMT because the lessons...
Date: Aug 9, 2023
Project Swaddle uses community paramedics to bring wrap-around care to pregnant and postpartum patients. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS Division Chief for the Crawfordsville Fire Department. "And, resoundingly, he has knocked it out of the park...
Date: Feb 8, 2023
Across the rural West, an awareness of the health impacts of poor air quality – and how to minimize those impacts – is growing. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS worker, he saw a noticeable increase in asthma and COPD exacerbations when the smoke...
Date: Apr 10, 2024
While an estimated 20% of Americans live in rural areas, 40% of traffic deaths occur on rural roads. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS agencies often cover much broader swaths of land than urban agencies, leading to significantly...