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81. Building a Regional Healthcare Presence and Partnerships, with Krista Postai and Jason Wesco – Exploring Rural Health Podcast - Podcast Episode
Date: Sep 3, 2024

The September 2024 episode of RHIhub's podcast features an interview with Krista Postai, CEO of Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas (CHC/SEK), and Jason Wesco, CHC/SEK's President and Chief Strategy Officer. We learn about how CHC/SEK developed a single Federally Qualified Health Center into an organization serving 18 locations.

...community health workers in the last few years promises to make some progress. I went...

82. The Relationship Between Rural Setting and Health: Factors that Influence Individuals With or at Risk of CVD - A Summary of the Literature - Resources
Date: 2019

Describes current literature on rural challenges and opportunities, including cardiovascular risk due to obesity, lack of access to healthcare, workforce shortages, importance of paramedics and community health workers, telehealth and broadband, and impact of the substance use disorder epidemic. Intended to help stakeholders understand the causes of health disparities and to support action to improve the health of rural communities.

...Community health workers · Community paramedicine · Emergency medical technicians and paramedics · Food security and nutrition · Health...

83. HEROs in Rural Health: Q&A with Art Kaufman - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Jan 10, 2018

Dr. Art Kaufman discusses the Health Extension Rural Offices (HEROs) model, how he is helping promote the use of community health workers, and his work with the University of New Mexico's World Health Organization Collaborating Center. - The Rural Monitor

...community health workers, and his work with the University of New Mexico's World Health...

84. Finding Innovation and Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Rural Health Organizations Are Adapting Their Program Strategies - Resources
Date: May 2020

Summarizes a series of virtual peer learning sessions in response to COVID-19 for current Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program, Rural Health Network Development, Small Healthcare Provider Quality Improvement, and Delta States Rural Development Network program grantees. Provides an overview of common themes that emerged from the sessions. Discusses the challenges and innovations made to implement rural health and public programs across six areas: community health workers, data collection and evaluation, virtual trainings, peer support services and recovery supports, telehealth utilization, and schools.

...community health workers, data collection and evaluation, virtual trainings, peer support services and recovery supports...

85. CommHIT Shoots for the Moon - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Feb 21, 2024

CommHIT, a nonprofit based at the Kennedy Space Center, has worked at the intersection of rural health and technology for over a decade. Now, as an awardee of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) Rural Public Health Workforce Training Network (RPHWTN) grant program, the organization is assisting Florida partners with workforce development initiatives and technology-related training programs. - The Rural Monitor

...Community Health Worker Coalition (FCHWC) to develop the Tech-Based Community Health Worker (CHW-T) credential...

86. Bridging The Home-Based Primary Care Gap In Rural Areas - Resources
Date: Feb 2024

Discusses challenges with offering home-based primary care (HBPC) in rural communities for older adults and people with disabilities, notably workforce shortages, insufficient infrastructure, and funding. Offers HBPC redesign suggestions with these challenges in mind, discussing community health workers, technology and telehealth, leveraging community resources and partnerships, training, scope of practice laws, payment models, and infrastructure investments.

...Community health workers · Funding · Health workforce education and training · Health workforce supply and demand · Home...

87. COVID-19 Stakeholder Experiences in the Commonwealth of Kentucky - 2022 - Resources
Date: Nov 2022

Results of surveys taken from October-December 2021 by 145 Kentucky school leaders, community health workers and their clients, rural community members, and healthcare providers. Includes statistics on satisfaction with telehealth, testing locations and vaccines, barriers faced during stay-at-home orders, and impact of COVID on medical care.

...community health workers and their clients, rural community members, and healthcare providers. Includes statistics on satisfaction...

88. Community-Clinical Linkages Within Health Care in Hawai'i - Resources
Date: Jun 2019

Special issue of the Hawaii Journal of Medicine and Public Health focusing on collaborations between the community and healthcare facilities to improve health in Hawaii. Covers community health workers, health systems-based programs, community health-center based programs, and provider-based programs. Addresses rural throughout.

...community health workers, health systems-based programs, community health-center based programs, and provider-based...

89. Breaking the Cycle: Missouri Community Paramedicine Program Brings Primary Care to High-Risk Patients - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Aug 17, 2022

A partnership between a Federally Qualified Health Center and the local ambulance district in Washington County, Missouri lets chronically ill patients access preventive care from the comfort of home. - The Rural Monitor

...community health worker and community paramedic workforce," said Doris Boeckman, who serves as project director...

90. Purchase District Health Department - RHIhub Health Literacy Toolkit - Toolkits
Added: Sep 14, 2022

With the help of community health workers (CHWs), extension agents, and health literacy community advocates, the Purchase District Health Department administers several state-approved, evidence-based programs with a health literacy focus to empower patients to make informed decisions as they seek and navigate healthcare services.

...community health workers (CHWs), extension agents, and health literacy community advocates, the Purchase District Health...