Rural Health
News by Topic: Culture
Nov 1, 2025 - Highlights a rural immersive medical training program on Kaua'i in Hawaii aiming to recruit and retain local residents as physicians. Students receive financial, housing, and transportation support with a commitment to practice on the island following graduation.
Source: Kaua'i Now
Oct 24, 2025 - Describes efforts to collect and distribute traditional Alaska Native foods to victims of Typhoon Halong in rural Alaska. Discusses collaboration between tribal institutions and relief organizations across the state.
Oct 12, 2025 - Discusses the experience of rural school counselors as often the only access to mental healthcare for their students. Notes the importance of accounting for rural culture in mental healthcare and the limited representation of rural school counselors in research. Profiles a rural Tennessee school counselor.
Source: Clarksville Online
Oct 7, 2025 - Recently-opened mental health center Sukapi Lodge near Browning, Montana is rooted in Blackfeet culture and unique experiences of Native people. Treatment combines Western therapeutic practices with Blackfeet traditional values.
Source: KRTV
Sep 25, 2025 - Discusses self-governance for tribal communities and the provision of healthcare as Cherokee Nation prepares to assume management of a hospital. Describes future plans for the facility.
Source: Oklahoma Voice