Rural Monitor Search Results for: rural referral center
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Date: Aug 7, 2019
To address rising ER readmissions, an Arizona healthcare system and network partners adapted an unconventional EMS telehealth service to help rural patients. Coupled with care coordination, mobile telehealth units are saving the healthcare system money while better meeting patients' healthcare needs. - The Rural Monitor
...referrals to facilities that could best meet patients' critical needs. Second, follow-up and educational efforts from care coordinators would improve the transitions of patients with chronic disease and/or behavioral health needs to appropriate care...
Date: Jul 24, 2024
For decades, community health workers (CHWs) provided their services outside usual healthcare reimbursement models. In recent years, with research supporting CHWs as professionals effectively assisting patients with navigating health-related social determinants, federal and private payers are exploring reimbursement mechanisms. Four rural healthcare organizations share both the impact and the continued sustainability challenges — and successes — of their CHW programs. - The Rural Monitor
...Rural Community Health Worker Programs: Proving Value and Finding Sustainability - The Rural Monitor --- For decades...
Date: May 24, 2023
Pivoting from a universal question, "How'd you sleep?" clinical sleep experts, a federal public health agency representative, and Nebraska Extension discussed sleep's impact on rural health and public safety. - The Rural Monitor
...When It's Not Enough: Sleep's Impact on Rural America's Health and Safety...
Date: Jun 15, 2022
For the 240,000 rural Americans with complete kidney failure, it's likely that very few knew they even had kidney disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, kidney disease is usually silent; 90% of people with kidney disease don't know they have it. With research pointing to the high costs of kidney disease for pediatric and adult patients alike — mostly covered by Medicare — experts and researchers discuss rural disparities around access to disease-stabilizing treatment and to renal replacement therapies. - The Rural Monitor
...rural transplant access gaps. "We know there is a geographic disparity in transplantation and every transplant center handles that disparity differently," he said. "Kidney transplantation is still underutilized and especially for eligible rural patients...
Date: Feb 20, 2019
An Alabama nonprofit organization and a North Carolina rural health district share how they leverage public funding for quality improvement and rural network development activities that provide unique patient education opportunities for chronic disease prevention and self-management. - The Rural Monitor
...rural Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), a social service agency, and a quality improvement team member from a local hospital's parent organization for monthly meetings focused on innovations directed at providing care...
Date: Sep 5, 2018
As more federal dollars are directed toward the opioid crisis, three communities use grant funds for treatment and recovery care coordination in court, prisons, and the homes of new moms. - The Rural Monitor
...Center (BVHC) and also serves as the project director for their opioid program. Because having OUD while pregnant can hurt unborn children, and lifestyles of those who abuse opioids can lead to child neglect, BVHC...
Date: Jun 1, 2022
Nuclear weapons testing from 1945 to 1962 and uranium mining from 1943 to 1971 exposed workers and community members living near the mines or testing sites to harmful levels of radiation that can lead to cancer and other illnesses. Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program (RESEP) grants help healthcare organizations provide screenings, referrals for medical treatment, and other services to this population. Two grantees, the Navajo Area RESEP and the Southwestern Utah RESEP, share their stories. - The Rural Monitor
...RESEP Clinics Help Rural Residents Access Care and Compensation After Radiation Exposure - The Rural Monitor...
Date: Feb 26, 2020
A Federally Qualified Health Center used grant support to provide primary care oral health assessment and fluoride varnishes in 12 school-based health centers in nine Louisiana parishes, hoping to provide thousands of children with better oral health in the present as well as into adulthood. - The Rural Monitor
...Making a Difference for Generations to Come: School-Based Oral Healthcare in Louisiana - The Rural...
Date: Mar 13, 2024
Studies find that rural people have higher rates of hearing loss than urban people but face significant barriers to care. Experts from a hearing clinic in South Dakota, a telehealth program in Alaska, and a nationally available agriculture safety program discuss these barriers, ways to improve access to hearing care, and the importance of hearing conservation. - The Rural Monitor
...Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). "What we found is that when telehealth was used, children were more than twice as likely to receive follow-up care, and they received that care 17 times faster," Robler...
Date: May 2, 2018
Post-acute care (PAC) services available locally can make fully recovering from a serious illness or injury faster and easier, setting the patient and provider up for the best possible outcome. This article looks at how a tertiary facility's communication with skilled nursing facilities, a Critical Access Hospital's swing bed program, and a home health agency are improving patient transitions from acute care to PAC. - The Rural Monitor
...Rural Post-Acute Care: Improving Transitions to Enhance Patient Recovery - The Rural Monitor --- Post-acute...