COVID-19 Exposes Threat to America's Broken Rural Health Care System
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Description
Recording of an April 21, 2020, webinar featuring members of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Rural Health Task Force. Discusses the Task Force's policy recommendations to stabilize the rural healthcare infrastructure and ensure local access to care as outlined in the report Confronting Rural America's Health Care Crisis. Describes how these recommendations will address the closures of obstetrics units, promote value-based care, provide incentives for clinicians to stay in rural areas, and remove barriers to telehealth. Transcript available in the video description.
Date
04/2020
Organization
Bipartisan Policy Center Rural Health Task Force
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· Health workforce supply and demand
· Healthcare quality
· Hospitals
· Maternal health and prenatal care
· Policy
· Recruitment and retention of health professionals
· Rural-urban differences
· Telehealth