Rural Monitor Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: Dec 18, 2019
With national standards now available for voluntary accreditation, rural public health departments need to determine the feasibility of that activity for their organization. The Public Health Accreditation Board President and CEO joins researchers and experts to share information about accreditation and how rural health departments can achieve that designation. - The Rural Monitor
...community partners who have also been accredited by their respective professional bodies. Experts said that very frequent are the stories of not just an individual department worker's professional growth, but an associated personal growth...
Date: Jul 24, 2019
CAPABLE is a national model that connects low-income seniors with an occupational therapist, registered nurse, and home repair services. Program coordinators from Hawaii and Maine share their successes and the challenges of helping rural residents age safely in place. - The Rural Monitor
...Health. Lessons Learned To other rural communities considering CAPABLE, Farrar advised understanding what challenges you may experience and finding community partners. For example, KAPA partners with other traditional healers as well as social workers...
Date: Mar 23, 2022
Parent Partners is a statewide program in Iowa that pairs families whose children have been removed from the home with mentors with shared experience who have successfully navigated the state's Department of Human Services (DHS) system. These mentors coach, advocate, and connect their clients with community resources. - The Rural Monitor
...Communities , a literature review released in January 2020 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), lists peer mentorship as a potential strategy to overcome the barriers to helping child welfare clients access...
Date: Sep 7, 2016
Tom Nerhing, Co-chair of the Joint Committee on Rural EMS Care (JCREC) and Division Director at the North Dakota Department of Health, Division of EMS and Trauma, shares how the changes in healthcare delivery can be an opportunity for emergency medical services to provide an even greater service to rural communities. - The Rural Monitor
...health through community paramedics. In traditional healthcare-starved communities, this approach can offer a degree of community healthcare where very little exists. We need to expand this role to include other levels of EMS providers...
Date: Feb 26, 2015
Highlights three university programs that are embracing distance education to allow professionals to stay in their rural communities while earning a degree. - The Rural Monitor
...health occupations studied, over 80 percent had fewer providers per capita in rural areas than in urban. Challenges such as economic and educational disparities, coupled with rural isolation, present hurdles in the recruitment and retention...
Date: May 20, 2020
Brock Slabach, the National Rural Health Association's Senior Vice President for Member Services, discusses the impact of COVID-19 on rural America's healthcare organizations. - The Rural Monitor
...health emergency, what has most inspired you about how rural providers, facilities, and communities have responded to this national emergency? Though I'm not surprised because I was in Mississippi during Hurricane Katrina...
Date: Nov 16, 2016
In Pennsylvania, more people are dying from drug overdose than from car accidents. The FORHP-funded Addiction Recovery Mobile Outreach Team (ARMOT) program works to educate medical staff on addiction and recovery and to support patients as they navigate the recovery process. - The Rural Monitor
...communities across the country are facing the opioid crisis. Rural opioid users are more likely than urban users to have less income and formal education, no insurance, and poorer health, factors which put them...
Date: Aug 8, 2018
An in-depth look at death certificates shows how this vital statistic document can impact rural healthcare, rural healthcare policy, and public health interventions. - The Rural Monitor
...worker in my home area in rural Maine," Ziller said. "I can help drive evidence-based improvements in rural public health by doing this type of research. Specifically, with this project, we believe...
Date: Dec 9, 2020
Study after study underscores transportation as a major barrier to rural healthcare access. With the support of federal funding, a project director shares how Rides to Health and Wealth is emerging as a solution in eastern Missouri — despite COVID-19. - The Rural Monitor
...community investment groups or small chamber or hospital foundations. Ast shared she was surprised that some businesses requested participation but not to get workers to job sites. Instead, they needed to find options for their...
Date: Oct 19, 2016
Much of a person's health is determined by social and environmental factors such as housing or access to healthcare. When these factors negatively affect a person's health, legal intervention combined with medical care may be the best treatment. - The Rural Monitor
...community health center in Mississippi, Geiger hired a lawyer to help low-income patients solve legal problems that affected their health. In the 1980s, the nation was hit hard by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. To fight...