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Website Search Results for: telehealth

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551. Bridging The Home-Based Primary Care Gap In Rural Areas - Resources
Date: Feb 2024

Discusses challenges with offering home-based primary care (HBPC) in rural communities for older adults and people with disabilities, notably workforce shortages, insufficient infrastructure, and funding. Offers HBPC redesign suggestions with these challenges in mind, discussing community health workers, technology and telehealth, leveraging community resources and partnerships, training, scope of practice laws, payment models, and infrastructure investments.

...telehealth, leveraging community resources and partnerships, training, scope of practice laws, payment models, and infrastructure...

552. Behavioral Health Care System Capacity in Pennsylvania and Its Impact on Hospital Emergency Departments and Patient Health - Resources
Date: Jul 2020

An assessment of Pennsylvania's behavioral health needs and the impact that the behavioral healthcare system's capacity has on hospital emergency departments and patient health. Examines the effect of provider shortages, the role of first responders, emergency response models, and efforts to expand telehealth. Mentions rural throughout.

...telehealth. Mentions rural throughout. --- View more Behavioral Health Care System Capacity in Pennsylvania and Its Impact...

553. Telemedicine for Tobacco Cessation and Prevention to Combat COVID-19 Morbidity and Mortality in Rural Areas - Resources
Date: Jan 2021

Discusses the use of telehealth to initiate tobacco cessation programs in rural areas as a means of limiting comorbidity and mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Highlights the rates of tobacco use in rural areas by type and compares rates to urban areas. Explores several examples of programs using telemedicine to implement successful models of tobacco cessation treatment in the U.S. and in Hong Kong.

...telehealth to initiate tobacco cessation programs in rural areas as a means of limiting comorbidity...

554. Improving Methadone Access for Rural Communities in the USA: Lessons Learned from Covid-19 Adaptations and International Models of Care - Resources
Date: Nov 2021

Explores the effect of changes to methadone treatment protocols for opioid use disorder in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on access to treatment in rural areas. Discusses telehealth, dispensing schedules, and distribution models before and during the pandemic.

...telehealth, dispensing schedules, and distribution models before and during the pandemic. --- View more Improving Methadone...

555. Rural and Urban/Suburban Families' Use of a Web-Based Mental Health Intervention - Resources
Date: May 2017

Analyzes data from a web-based mental health intervention program serving adolescents and caregivers in disaster-affected areas of Missouri and Alabama, comparing rural and urban/suburban rates of accessing and completing web-based mental healthcare modules. Describes historic disparities in mental healthcare among rural communities, noting changes to access and engagement due to increased internet technology use among rural youth and adults. Discusses the potential of web-based healthcare interventions, including telehealth, to expand mental health services in rural areas.

...telehealth, to expand mental health services in rural areas. --- View more Rural and Urban/Suburban Families...

556. Aging on the Farm: Emerging Issues 2020-2021 Evaluation Report - Resources
Date: Jan 2023

Highlights 4 projects related to aging on the farm. Includes project descriptions, results, and future plans. Project topics include telehealth occupational therapy, data gathering on farmer needs in order to safely age in place, dementia awareness and healthcare quality, and exercise promotion for farmers with Parkinson's disease.

...telehealth occupational therapy, data gathering on farmer needs in order to safely age in place...

557. Wilson Medical Center Implements Creative Care Alternatives to Address COVID-19 - Resources
Date: Apr 2020

Describes Wilson Medical Center's implementation of curbside and telehealth services in response to COVID-19 in rural Kansas. Offers lessons learned from the transition to alternative solutions and future goals for adapting healthcare services as needed.

...telehealth services in response to COVID-19 in rural Kansas. Offers lessons learned from the transition...

558. Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People with Disabilities: Research Findings - Resources
Date: Apr 2022

Summarizes findings from research funded by the Administration for Community Living's National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) on the experiences of people with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Highlights research on rural communities and telehealth.

...telehealth. --- View more Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People with Disabilities: Research Findings...

559. Broadband Availability and Access in Rural Pennsylvania - Resources
Date: Jun 2019

Report details broadband access in rural Pennsylvania. Discussed broadband speed and the role it plays in rural telehealth services. Features a literature review and policy recommendations.

...telehealth services. Features a literature review and policy recommendations. --- View more Broadband Availability and Access...

560. Disrupting Disparities in Pennsylvania: Retooling for Geographic, Racial and Ethnic Growth - Resources
Date: 2021

White paper examining geographic and racial/ethnic disparities in Pennsylvania along key health indicators, based on interviews with key stakeholders, a literature review, and analyses of databases on the health of Pennsylvanians. Includes sections on telehealth, broadband access as a social determinant of health, and challenges of aging in rural areas. Features demographics and statistics on prevalence of chronic diseases and maps showing Pennsylvania rural counties and Health Professional Shortage Areas and Medically Underserved Areas.

...telehealth, broadband access as a social determinant of health, and challenges of aging in rural...