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Rural Post-Acute Care: Healthcare
Leaders Offer Practical Solutions to Workforce Challenges
Across the country, recruitment and retention challenges are common for rural healthcare
entities providing post-acute care. Healthcare leaders share practical examples that have
created incentive for staff to join, and stay on, their healthcare teams.
Rural Post-Acute Care: Improving
Transitions to Enhance Patient Recovery
Post-acute care (PAC) services available locally can make fully recovering from a serious
illness or injury faster and easier, setting the patient and provider up for the best
possible outcome. This article looks at how a tertiary facility's communication with skilled
nursing facilities, a Critical Access Hospital's swing bed program, and a home health agency
are improving patient transitions from acute care to PAC.
News Headlines
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Illicit Opioids: Office of National Drug Control Policy and Other Agencies Need to Better Assess Strategic Efforts
U.S. Government Accountability Office -
USDA Invests $243 Million in Rural Community Facility Improvements in 22 States
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Preventing and Treating Cancer in Rural America
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Rural and Urban Provider Market Share of Inpatient Post-Acute Care Services Provided to Rural Medicare Beneficiaries
Source North Carolina Rural Health Research Program -
Market Characteristics Associated with Rural Hospitals' Provision of Post-Acute Care
Source North Carolina Rural Health Research Program
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