Website Search Results for: community health workers
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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
...workers are the first line of either routine screening, or routine questions regarding eye health or basic examination and treatment. These providers said it's also important to understand that there is a clinical care...
Date: Dec 12, 2018
For many rural Americans, distance to a specialty healthcare center hundreds of miles away makes for a long, uncomfortable, and expensive trip. In the past several decades, dozens of charitable flight services have cropped up to transport rural veterans, cancer patients, the chronically ill, and even abused children to treatment. - The Rural Monitor
...communities of rural America, but still require ongoing specialized medical attention, which may only be available at larger regional VA facilities or military hospitals like Walter Reed [Army Medical Center]," said Fricke. Planes flying...
Added: Nov 14, 2022
Describes how the Advancing Unified Guidance for Medical Emergencies with Network Telehealth for the Emergency Departments and Emergency Medical Services of Greater Vermont (AUGMENT Tele-ED/EMS) project supported rural providers by providing telehealth equipment and assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
...community partners also contributed to this effort by bringing in trailers and other equipment or supplies that were useful to the emergency response teams. The emergency response was also significantly aided by the very fortunate...
Reviewed: Apr 10, 2024
Hospital2Home identifies older adults who have an elevated risk of hospital readmission and provides service vouchers for personal care and home-delivered meals.
...workers identify recently admitted patients age 60 or older who are not currently on Medicaid and who have an elevated risk of hospital readmission. Risk factors include: Living alone Having limited access...
Reviewed: Aug 27, 2025
Genesis HealthCare System, Zanesville, Ohio, created a post-discharge care coordination program with impact not only on readmission rates, but access to acute and chronic care.
...worker focuses on the non-medical elements linked to patient's condition and works in tandem with the care managers. To allow for outpatient care to be attended to by the same care manager...
Added: Mar 27, 2024
Learn how rural communities are using pre-planning and hazard analysis tools to reduce farm and agricultural fires in rural communities.
...community, livestock, property, and overall livelihood. One effective strategy to reduce farm fires and farm fire related injuries is pre-incident or emergency response planning. Emergency Response Planning and Farm Mapping Rural fire departments...
Date: May 29, 2024
Ten measures developed by the state's EMS office have been endorsed by the National Emergency Medical Services Quality Alliance. - The Rural Monitor
...Health Policy's (FORHP) Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program (Flex program) to launch the FAIR Project. Through partnerships with NEMSQA and an EMS data platform, the state used rural and urban data it had collected...
Date: Dec 6, 2022
The December 2022 episode of RHIhub's podcast features Abigail Barker and Timothy McBride, co-investigators at the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis, discussing their findings about rural health insurance coverage shared in the recently published chartbook, An Insurance Profile of Rural America.
...communities, as detailed in their recently published chartbook, An Insurance Profile of Rural America. Listen and subscribe on a variety of platforms at PodBean . Organizations and resources mentioned in this episode: RUPRI Center for Rural...
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
...communities of Kellogg , Moscow , and Sandpoint as well as patients from rural eastern Washington. They use a telehealth program for their patients in Orofino and Cottonwood . He shared patient perceptions around the themes of kidney...
Added: Nov 14, 2022
Describes how a Critical Access Hospital in Estes Park, Colorado responded to and evacuated from a wildfire in October of 2020.
...Health (EPH), a Critical Access Hospital (CAH) in Estes Park, Colorado, for several months. EPH serves the town of Estes Park and several small communities in Larimer County, Colorado, and is licensed for 23 beds...