Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: Jul 30, 2015
Wayne Myers, a retired pediatrician and rural medical educator, reflects on what the Medicare program's support for graduate medical education has meant for the rural physician workforce. - The Rural Monitor
...workers. It's hard to say what changes in American life and health are attributable to the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid into that swirl in August of 1965. I was in my fourth...
Date: Feb 22, 2023
A community consortium in McKinley County brings together a range of local organizations and entities to take a holistic approach to recovery. - The Rural Monitor
...health in a demonstrable way — and collaborative opportunities. Most recently, consortium members partnered with the Gallup Magistrate Court to create a treatment court program. "Those are the sort of collaborative efforts that are really challenging...
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: Dec 12, 2023
The University of Vermont Medical Center provides telepsychiatry care and education to nursing homes that face shortages of mental health professionals on site.
...communities that face shortages of mental health professionals. Results: These telepsychiatry consultations have eased the burden on nursing home residents by saving travel time, distance, and money it takes to travel to the nearest tertiary...
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...