Rural Monitor Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: Dec 30, 2020
Articles on COVID-19 concerns, health workforce, dementia, human trafficking, and more made it onto the year's most-read list. - The Rural Monitor
...Workers and Connecting with Rural Residents Contact tracing is an important step in preventing further spread of the coronavirus. Alaska's AHEC program, a center for public health in Washington, and a national public health...
Date: Jan 13, 2021
Dolores E. Roybal, executive director of Con Alma Health Foundation, discusses how her foundation partnered with other funders to provide almost $2 million in grants and created an advisory committee of immigrant-led, immigrant-serving organizations to address barriers limiting access to services. - The Rural Monitor
...Health Foundation: Health Equity and COVID Relief Q&A with Dolores E. Roybal, executive director of Con Alma Health Foundation by Allee Mead The first of four articles in the series During Pandemic, Rural Health...
Date: Jan 27, 2021
Barbara Leonard and Ruta Kadonoff of the Maine Health Access Foundation (MeHAF) discuss how their foundation provided unrestricted COVID-19 grants and open competitive grants and partnered with other philanthropies pooling together COVID-19 response funds. - The Rural Monitor
...community organizations. Another grant that was made during this time was to an organization that is trying to ramp up a community health worker...
Date: Jan 28, 2021
An event space in Dalhart, Texas was converted into a COVID-19 vaccine clinic, distributing 1,232 Pfizer vaccines to residents in a tri-county area and beyond, finding unique ways for the participants to promote the event on social media. - The Rural Monitor
...workers and the public through 6 PM. By 3:45 PM the team completed the 1,232nd vaccination and we were out of the Pfizer vaccine for the day. We had no idea how many...
Date: Mar 17, 2021
With federal funds supporting its implementation in Oklahoma's Marshallese community, a Community Health Worker model exemplifies how culturally sensitive education can improve healthcare access, health literacy, and health outcomes. - The Rural Monitor
...Community - The Rural Monitor --- With federal funds supporting its implementation in Oklahoma's Marshallese community, a Community Health Worker...
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...
Date: May 19, 2021
In rural Virginia, Tri-Area Community Health puts their own spin on the integrated care model to better serve their communities. - The Rural Monitor
...Community Health hired Cindy Hernandez, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, who is also fluent in Spanish...
Date: Oct 6, 2021
Three programs across rural America demonstrate how doulas improve birth outcomes by providing prenatal, labor, and postpartum support. A New Mexico program reaches American Indian, Hispanic, and other populations who lack nearby labor/delivery units; a Minnesota program works with moms experiencing incarceration; and a North Dakota program is training postpartum doulas who will care for families impacted by opioid use disorder and other substance use. - The Rural Monitor
...worker or other resources. In Española, New Mexico, the nonprofit Tewa Women United provides full-spectrum doula services across the reproductive spectrum, regardless of pregnancy outcome, in its region as well as doula training across...
Date: Oct 20, 2021
A common health condition, epilepsy impacts rural populations in many ways, including the ability to drive. Medical and public health experts join an advocacy organization to review the condition's impact and outline rural management approaches — including seizure first aid. - The Rural Monitor
...Community Health Worker Curriculum Understanding the rural role of community health workers (CHWs) in addressing...
Date: Dec 29, 2021
Articles on vaccination, swing beds, COPD, cancer, workforce and more made it onto the year's most-read list. - The Rural Monitor
...Community With federal funds supporting its implementation in Oklahoma's Marshallese community, a Community Health Worker...