Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Information for rural providers on Medicare's Principal Care Management (PCM) billing to support patients with a single high-risk disease.
...workers, dietitians, nurses, medical assistants, and others who will have contact with the patient. How should I schedule staff to provide PCM services? Practices have taken varied approaches to providing care coordination. The decision...
Added: Nov 14, 2022
Shares how the Round Valley Indian Reservation in Northern California responded to a wildfire during the COVID-19 pandemic in August 2020.
...workers managing the COVID-19 pandemic now had a second issue to manage: fire-related health issues. Air quality problems caused by the smoke led to breathing problems as the valley experienced dangerous levels...
Reviewed: Dec 16, 2025
Provides resources and answers frequently asked questions regarding the Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) designation. Addresses eligibility for REH status, services and staffing requirements, reimbursement, who to contact for assistance, and more.
...worker, or other qualified professional. In addition to these services, REHs are allowed to provide additional outpatient services, including behavioral health, radiology, laboratory, and outpatient rehabilitation. An REH may also establish a separate, distinct part...
Added: Jul 13, 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...
Reviewed: Nov 22, 2024
Provides resources, information, and frequently asked questions on the various definitions used to identify rural areas in the United States. Explains how definitions of rural are used, identifies the most common definitions, and discusses differences between definitions. Identifies data sources for identifying geographic areas as rural and lists tools for checking geographic eligibility for federal programs targeting rural areas.
...communities on one side of that line are eligible while those on the other side are not. Implementation of programs and laws that concern rural areas requires that policymakers, regulators, and administering agencies stipulate...
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...
Added: Jul 19, 2024
A new course for high school students in Idaho is the first of its kind in the country.
...communities are experiencing an ongoing shortage of EMS workers, is one of six states that allow people younger than 18 to enroll in Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) training with parental consent. In Idaho...
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: 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...