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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: 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...
Reviewed: May 11, 2026
Information on rural economic development strategies used to address social determinants of health.
...health and well-being. One approach to economic development involves a holistic perspective that focuses on other SDOH contributing to economic stability, including housing affordability and educational opportunities. Several strategies can support economic development: Building...
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: 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...