Rural Project Examples: Chronic disease management
Other Project Examples
Promise Community Health Center Hypertension Control Program
Added February 2026
- Need: To improve hypertension in rural Iowa patients.
- Intervention: Promise Community Health Center offers team-based care to help patients manage hypertension.
- Results: The center increased its hypertension control rate from 73% in 2022 to 84% in 2024.
Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center-Nevada
Updated/reviewed April 2025
- Need: To improve and increase prevention and care services for HIV, STDs, hepatitis C, and other infectious diseases.
- Intervention: PAETC-NV provides clinical and didactic trainings, conferences, technical assistance, capacity building, webinars, and other services to providers and healthcare organizations statewide.
- Results: In 2024, PAETC-NV trained more than 1,800 healthcare providers across Nevada to increase clinical capacity in the care, screening, and prevention of HIV, other sexually transmitted diseases, and hepatitis C.
Boone County Health Center Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program
Updated/reviewed June 2022
- Need: Evidenced-based intervention to improve function and quality of life for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other chronic lower respiratory conditions.
- Intervention: Pulmonary rehabilitation program implementation in 1989.
- Results: Compared to a national average of only about 3% of referred Medicare beneficiaries actually enrolling in pulmonary rehabilitation, 60% of the program's referred patients enroll. Averaging around 15 patients/year completing the program, a large combined cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation maintenance population averages 8,000 visits/year.
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