Website Search Results for: rural referral center
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Date: Dec 12, 2018
For many rural Americans, distance to a specialty healthcare center hundreds of miles away makes for a long, uncomfortable, and expensive trip. In the past several decades, dozens of charitable flight services have cropped up to transport rural veterans, cancer patients, the chronically ill, and even abused children to treatment. - The Rural Monitor
...centers in Hays, Kansas, and Glenwood Springs, Colorado, are interested in partnering to provide free flights to patients without insurance. "So, we're close," Langland confirmed. "There is no shortage of air ambulance companies...
Reviewed: May 9, 2022
Learn protective factors for suicide and how rural communities can strengthen protective factors to reduce risk of suicide.
...referral, and follow-up To ensure access to effective care, rural areas may integrate behavioral healthcare and suicide prevention into primary care settings and ensure providers have the information, training, and resources they need...
Date: Nov 16, 2022
Palliative care, designed to treat the symptoms of a serious illness at any stage of diagnosis, is associated with better outcomes like higher patient satisfaction. Despite these benefits, many people in rural communities cannot access these services or don't know what palliative care is. The South Dakota Palliative Care Network is working to increase knowledge of palliative care among rural healthcare professionals, nursing students, and community members. - The Rural Monitor
...referrals are needed, know where the specialty palliative care providers are located. "In those communities, we've been able to really provide that education around 'What is palliative care?'" Berke said. "It's really hard...
Date: Nov 1, 2022
The November 2022 episode of RHIhub's podcast features Jennifer Conner, DrPH, an associate professor with the Delta Population Health Institute at the NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University, and Jason Lofton, MD, a family physician at the Lofton Family Clinic in De Queen, Arkansas, in a discussion about rural obesity and how rural patients can live their healthiest life.
...center just to get out of his house. And, so sometimes people are willing, they just need that little bit of encouragement to say, you know, actually...
Date: Aug 26, 2020
From decreasing stigma to increasing treatment access and the impact of COVID-19, experts and rural healthcare organizations speak out on alcohol use and misuse in rural America. - The Rural Monitor
...Center created an in-depth toolkit to reduce stigma surrounding substance misuse. Additionally, the National Institute on Drug Abuse offers a language use guide , pointing out that "although some language that may be considered stigmatizing...
Added: Jul 16, 2020
Describes community paramedicine programs that focus on high utilizers and other patients who are not well-served by emergency medical service transportation to the emergency department.
...Referral and Education Services (CARES) program , which targets super-utilizers by engaging with cross-agency partners who can better serve the patient's needs. Clients are assigned a “navigator” who helps manage their care...
Reviewed: May 2, 2020
A program that uses community health workers to create a system of coordinated care in order to reduce the prevalence of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in rural Colorado.
...center, a nonprofit hospital, a rural health clinic, a community clinic, and a community foundation. In this geographic area, rugged terrain, limited state highway systems, and a lack of public transportation challenge residents' access...
Reviewed: Mar 1, 2023
The Community Resource Navigator Program works with local agencies in Provincetown, M.A., to identify and connect clients to needed social, behavioral, and substance use disorder services.
...referrals made by Community Navigators. The Community Navigator program has become so successful that other towns and agencies have been quick to replicate and expand the program. The towns of Truro, Wellfleet, and Eastham have...
Date: Apr 29, 2020
COVID-19 physical distancing measures impact vulnerable populations, including rural children experiencing maltreatment and those living in situations of intimate partner violence. Clinicians and other experts said community awareness, frank discussions, and changing service delivery approaches can make a difference. - The Rural Monitor
...center's work specifically emphasizes the multidisciplinary team approach to child maltreatment. Newlin talked about the power of local voices, such as those of community leaders, during the current restrictions. "Yes, we have...
Reviewed: Apr 17, 2023
The Communities that Care Coalition of Massachusetts has found ways to significantly reduce substance abuse among teens in Franklin County and the North Quabbin Region.
...Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for all students in all of their school districts. They work with local schools to help ensure that school policies related to substance use follow best practices and principles of restorative...