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Added: Jul 10, 2023
A summer food truck and mobile farm stand bring healthy, affordable food to families in Blaine County, Idaho.
...workers to figure out what kinds of vegetables are most popular with the children served by the program. While lunches are free for children, parents and other adults can also buy a lunch...
Date: Jan 11, 2023
Oklahoma State University's College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation prepares future doctors to work in rural and tribal settings where healthcare workers are in short supply. - The Rural Monitor
...workers are in short supply. Behind the effort is a first-of-its-kind collaboration that Chuck Hoskin, Jr., Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, describes as a "life-changing partnership." Now students can attend...
Date: Apr 8, 2020
In the past five years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has delivered two reports to Congress concerning traumatic brain injury. Concussions, or mild traumatic brain injuries, are common. With perspectives gained from their varied roles, five experts share information on concussions in rural America. - The Rural Monitor
...health services are present in a community, taking advantage of services is avoided because there's no anonymity in rural communities." Graves pointed to other research confirming the established association between TBI and suicide . Given...
Date: Feb 22, 2023
A community consortium in McKinley County brings together a range of local organizations and entities to take a holistic approach to recovery. - The Rural Monitor
...health in a demonstrable way — and collaborative opportunities. Most recently, consortium members partnered with the Gallup Magistrate Court to create a treatment court program. "Those are the sort of collaborative efforts that are really challenging...
Date: Jul 30, 2015
Wayne Myers, a retired pediatrician and rural medical educator, reflects on what the Medicare program's support for graduate medical education has meant for the rural physician workforce. - The Rural Monitor
...workers. It's hard to say what changes in American life and health are attributable to the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid into that swirl in August of 1965. I was in my fourth...
Date: Jan 9, 2019
Rural Americans of all ages often go without eye healthcare, a gap that has obvious consequences: blindness and low vision. National associations and an FQHC administrator talk about how rural vision care can be improved to increase quality of life and prevent disability in rural patients. - The Rural Monitor
...workers are the first line of either routine screening, or routine questions regarding eye health or basic examination and treatment. These providers said it's also important to understand that there is a clinical care...
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
...communities of rural America, but still require ongoing specialized medical attention, which may only be available at larger regional VA facilities or military hospitals like Walter Reed [Army Medical Center]," said Fricke. Planes flying...
Added: Nov 14, 2022
Describes how the Advancing Unified Guidance for Medical Emergencies with Network Telehealth for the Emergency Departments and Emergency Medical Services of Greater Vermont (AUGMENT Tele-ED/EMS) project supported rural providers by providing telehealth equipment and assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
...community partners also contributed to this effort by bringing in trailers and other equipment or supplies that were useful to the emergency response teams. The emergency response was also significantly aided by the very fortunate...
Reviewed: Feb 10, 2023
An in-home nursing case management program for high-risk pregnant individuals in order to maximize pregnancy outcomes for mothers and their newborns.
...worker (with the mother's permission) continues to follow up with the mother and baby until 2 years postpartum, monitoring birth control compliance as well as the baby's growth and development. Results According...
Reviewed: Apr 10, 2024
Hospital2Home identifies older adults who have an elevated risk of hospital readmission and provides service vouchers for personal care and home-delivered meals.
...workers identify recently admitted patients age 60 or older who are not currently on Medicaid and who have an elevated risk of hospital readmission. Risk factors include: Living alone Having limited access...