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Date: Mar 27, 2024
Strategic collaboration allows rural organizations to combine resources and expertise to improve care and patient outcomes. Southern Illinois Healthcare, the Iowa Primary Care Association, and Minnesota's Winona Community HUB share how strategic collaboration has helped them conduct community health needs assessments, provide technical assistance to community health centers, connect patients to food and housing, and much more. - The Rural Monitor
...diabetic, food-insecure, and lacking appropriate housing, medications and annual wellness check-ups will not be sufficient...
Date: Mar 15, 2017
Oral health training programs are equipping Community Health Workers on Navajo Nation, Texas colonias, and Maryland's Appalachian communities to improve access to dental care and teach people how to take care of their teeth. - The Rural Monitor
...diabetes, chronic disease, and smoking cessation. The recent spotlight on gaps in rural dental access...
Date: Jan 9, 2019
Highlighting eye care as more than prescribing glasses, an optometrist explains how the medical model of optometry brings additional health benefits to rural patients. - The Rural Monitor
...diabetes, we can check their blood sugar and get them in to see the primary...
Date: Mar 21, 2018
MAT, or medication-assisted treatment, is understood as a whole-patient treatment for opioid use disorder, considered a chronic disease. Four MAT medications work differently and help each patient's unique needs. - The Rural Monitor
...diabetics who "relapse" and go from well-controlled sugars to uncontrolled sugar levels, MAT patients...
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
...diabetes that are chronic medical problems that have little to no stigma, but require care...
Date: Aug 9, 2017
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is number 3 on the cause of death list. In rural America, it's the sole major chronic disease with increasing death rates. In May 2017, the COPD National Action Plan, a "blueprint for a multi-faceted, unified fight against the disease" was released. Rural stakeholders share perspectives of just how rural Americans with COPD might benefit from the plan's rural touchpoints. - The Rural Monitor
...diabetes, all are going in the right direction. Except for one chronic disease. That exception...
Date: Jun 16, 2021
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is a condition that continues to steal rural America's breath. Researchers, philanthropists, and healthcare professionals talk about new rural research efforts and the impact of COVID-19 on COPD. Also discussed is the importance of pulmonary rehabilitation, an impactful treatment long known to improve quality of life and now backed by new research proving it decreases death rates in select patients. - The Rural Monitor
...diabetes, all are going in the right direction. Except for one chronic disease. That exception...
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
...diabetic retinopathy . Above that age range, another eye disease commonly causes vision loss: age-related...
Date: Oct 20, 2021
A common health condition, epilepsy impacts rural populations in many ways, including the ability to drive. Medical and public health experts join an advocacy organization to review the condition's impact and outline rural management approaches — including seizure first aid. - The Rural Monitor
...diabetic — they are considered to have epilepsy. To diagnose epilepsy, providers take a careful history...
Learn why rural-specific health system demonstration projects are needed and review current demonstrations underway now.
...Diabetes Prevention Program (MDPP) Expanded Model – ongoing A structured behavior change intervention that aims to prevent...