Rural Health
News by Topic: Populations
Apr 8, 2024 - Highlights a new mobile medical unit expanding mental healthcare access for veterans in Montana and Wyoming. The unit is the first offering transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) therapy, a treatment typically given daily for multiple days. Receiving treatment through the mobile unit reduces transportation barriers for rural and frontier veterans.
Source: VA News
Apr 7, 2024 - Announces the Tribal Environmental Impact Network (TEIN), a cohort of professionals interested in environmental issues in tribal communities. Areas include environmental health, climate, emergency response, transportation, and more. TEIN will offer technical assistance in accessing funding opportunities. Includes an interest form for experts interested in participating.
Source: National Indian Health Board
Apr 4, 2024 - Highlights a project to give remote homes on a Navajo Nation reservation in Utah accurate addresses. Discusses the benefits of accurate addressing for emergency response teams and for receiving in-home medical care in addition to other benefits.
Source: The Daily Yonder
Apr 2, 2024 - Notice of final rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) making changes to simplify the eligibility and enrollment processes in Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and the Basic Health Program. This rule aligns enrollment and renewal requirements for most individuals in Medicaid; creates timeliness requirements for redeterminations of eligibility; makes transitions between programs easier; eliminates access barriers for children enrolled in CHIP by prohibiting premium lock-out periods, benefit limitations, and waiting periods; and modernizes recordkeeping requirements to ensure proper documentation of eligibility determinations. These regulations are effective June 3, 2024.
Source: Federal Register
Apr 2, 2024 - Highlights the Affordable Connectivity Program and the increase in telehealth access it offers. Discusses the potential impact of ending the program, particularly for rural and tribal residents.
Source: Marketplace, KFF Health News
Apr 2, 2024 - Offers an update to Congress on the Affordable Connectivity Program funding needs. Notes that ending the program will have greater impact on specific groups of people including rural and tribal residents. April is the last month of full funding for the program.
Source: Federal Communications Commission
Mar 29, 2024 - Announces new provisions giving Head Start programs additional flexibility to serve children in tribal communities and children of farmworkers. Tribally-run Head Start programs can enroll children regardless of family income, and any child who has one or more family member engaged in agricultural employment is now eligible for Head Start.
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Mar 28, 2024 - Summarizes recent research investigating suicidal ideation and mortality among rural Black men in Georgia. Discusses reasons for higher rates such as childhood trauma, poverty, and exposure to racism.
Source: HealthDay News
Mar 28, 2024 - Highlights a helpline offered for farmers in the Texas panhandle following recent wildfires.
Source: Public News Service
Mar 27, 2024 - Describes the Minnesota Bienvenido program, which provides support for rural Latino workers who are in high stress jobs with few support structures. Installments help participants connect with the community and learn skills to help manage stress and other emotions.
Source: MinnPost