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Key Rural Health Issues
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Trauma Training Initiative Teaches Rural Laypeople how to
“Stop the Bleed”
On average, rural residents wait twice as long for emergency medical services than urban
residents. Stop the Bleed is a trauma training initiative that teaches laypeople how to pack
wounds and apply tourniquets in order to improve survival rates until medical attention
arrives.
Making the EHR Work: Rural Healthcare Organizations Use
Data Extraction to Improve Patient Care
Electronic health records are central to rural healthcare providers’ and organizations’
transition to value-based care. Several rural organizations are using their EHR data to make
changes for the patient populations they serve.
News Headlines
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Compassion, Faith Drive FPOY to Help Patients, Community
American Academy of Family Physicians -
FPs Are Answer to Rural Maternity Care Crisis
American Academy of Family Physicians
New in the Online Library
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Key Informant Perspectives on Rural Social Isolation
and Loneliness
Source: University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center -
Interactive Map:
Drug
Overdose Deaths in the United States
Source: NORC, USDA Rural Development
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