Rural Monitor Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: Sep 7, 2016
Tom Nerhing, Co-chair of the Joint Committee on Rural EMS Care (JCREC) and Division Director at the North Dakota Department of Health, Division of EMS and Trauma, shares how the changes in healthcare delivery can be an opportunity for emergency medical services to provide an even greater service to rural communities. - The Rural Monitor
...communities. One of the more common current approaches is the provision of community health through community paramedics. In traditional healthcare-starved communities, this approach can offer a degree of community healthcare where very little exists...
Date: Feb 26, 2015
Highlights three university programs that are embracing distance education to allow professionals to stay in their rural communities while earning a degree. - The Rural Monitor
...communities are facing shortages of a major resource: healthcare professionals. A 2014 analysis from HRSA's National Center for Health Workforce Analysis (no longer available online) put this in perspective—of the 32 health occupations...
Date: May 15, 2014
The director of the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health discusses innovative programs, hydraulic fracking and her work in prisons. - The Rural Monitor
...health care. We found that, in some cases, it is easy to correlate changes to drilling activity but for other topics, it is very challenging to do so—and to demonstrate a cause-and-effect...
Date: Oct 17, 2018
Alaska's Southcentral Foundation has a specific solution to Native Alaskan domestic violence issues: the Family Wellness Warriors Initiative. - The Rural Monitor
...Health Models & Innovations. Outten explained that bringing FWWI to assist with domestic violence issues in their rural communities starts with a written invitation from tribal leaders. Then implementation begins with developing a community steering committee...
Date: May 20, 2020
Brock Slabach, the National Rural Health Association's Senior Vice President for Member Services, discusses the impact of COVID-19 on rural America's healthcare organizations. - The Rural Monitor
...health emergency, what has most inspired you about how rural providers, facilities, and communities have responded to this national emergency? Though I'm not surprised because I was in Mississippi during Hurricane Katrina...
Date: Nov 16, 2016
In Pennsylvania, more people are dying from drug overdose than from car accidents. The FORHP-funded Addiction Recovery Mobile Outreach Team (ARMOT) program works to educate medical staff on addiction and recovery and to support patients as they navigate the recovery process. - The Rural Monitor
...communities across the country are facing the opioid crisis. Rural opioid users are more likely than urban users to have less income and formal education, no insurance, and poorer health, factors which put them...
Date: Aug 8, 2018
An in-depth look at death certificates shows how this vital statistic document can impact rural healthcare, rural healthcare policy, and public health interventions. - The Rural Monitor
...worker in my home area in rural Maine,” Ziller said. “I can help drive evidence-based improvements in rural public health by doing this type of research. Specifically, with this project, we believe...
Date: Dec 9, 2020
Study after study underscores transportation as a major barrier to rural healthcare access. With the support of federal funding, a project director shares how Rides to Health and Wealth is emerging as a solution in eastern Missouri — despite COVID-19. - The Rural Monitor
...community investment groups or small chamber or hospital foundations. Ast shared she was surprised that some businesses requested participation but not to get workers to job sites. Instead, they needed to find options for their...
Date: Oct 19, 2016
Much of a person's health is determined by social and environmental factors such as housing or access to healthcare. When these factors negatively affect a person's health, legal intervention combined with medical care may be the best treatment. - The Rural Monitor
...community health center movement. At the first community health center in Mississippi, Geiger hired a lawyer to help low-income patients solve legal problems that affected their health. In the 1980s, the nation...
Date: May 12, 2021
Amanda Cohn, MD, Chief Medical Officer on CDC's COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force, shares how the CDC is providing funding, creating resources, and partnering with other organizations to increase vaccination rates in underserved communities such as rural, tribal, and communities of color. - The Rural Monitor
...community-based organizations (no longer available online), with resources for educating communities on the importance of COVID-19 vaccination. What resources does CDC have available to support rural vaccine education? Our COVID-19 website...