Rural Monitor Search Results for: community health workers
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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: Nov 9, 2016
Happy 25th anniversary to the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy's State Office of Rural Health (SORH) Program! Although each SORH has its own story, this article highlights the history of the program and the good work of three state offices that are meeting rural health needs in unique ways. - The Rural Monitor
...community health workers and community paramedics, are also becoming more popular methods of addressing rural...
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 in Mississippi, Geiger hired a lawyer to help low-income patients solve legal problems that affected their health. In the 1980s, the nation was hit hard by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. To fight...
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
...health through community paramedics. In traditional healthcare-starved communities, this approach can offer a degree of community healthcare where very little exists. We need to expand this role to include other levels of EMS providers...
Date: Jun 29, 2016
By teaching youth how to better their health and economic situation, Reverend Richard Joyner has inspired the Conetoe community to make lasting changes. Read more about how the Conetoe Family Life Center's garden camp and partnerships with local hospitals have revolutionized the health of northeast North Carolina. - The Rural Monitor
...workers, and other volunteers to help lead the center's initiatives. The medical community has been on-board with Joyner since the center's inception. In 2006, the Community Benefits Grants Program of Vidant Health...
Date: Oct 14, 2015
A September 2015 meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services focused on the needs of rural children and families living in poverty. - The Rural Monitor
...Community Health Workers (CHWs) to combat this barrier and better serve residents. Fabre notes that...
Date: Aug 5, 2015
Finger Lakes Community Health, a rural Federally Qualified Health Center, created an open access telehealth network to improve efficiency and protect their staff, after two separate traffic accidents involving FLCH providers. - The Rural Monitor
...community health worker suffered brain damage from being hit head-on by another vehicle after...
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 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
...health occupations studied, over 80 percent had fewer providers per capita in rural areas than in urban. Challenges such as economic and educational disparities, coupled with rural isolation, present hurdles in the recruitment and retention...