Rural Monitor Search Results for: covid vaccination
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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.
...COVID-19 vaccination. To ensure health equity and expanded access to COVID-19 vaccines: 75% of the total...
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.
...COVID-19 vaccine clinic, distributing 1,232 Pfizer vaccines to residents in a tri-county...
Date: Jan 26, 2021
Roanoke Chowan Community Health Center (RCCHC) in rural Ahoskie, North Carolina, is using social media and creating graphics to answer common questions about vaccines and encourage its patients to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
...vaccine and statements of why they wanted to be vaccinated. Roanoke Chowan Community Health Center (RCCHC) created a graphic for a newspaper ad in which three doctors share why they got vaccinated against COVID...
Date: Dec 29, 2021
Articles on vaccination, swing beds, COPD, cancer, workforce and more made it onto the year’s most-read list.
...Vaccinating Rural America: Q&A with Dr. Amanda Cohn Amanda Cohn, MD, Chief Medical Officer on CDC’s COVID...
Date: Jan 19, 2022
Peggy Broussard Wheeler, Vice President of Policy at the California Hospital Association, discusses the challenges that the hospitals in her state and nationwide have faced before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also shares rural hospitals’ unique strengths and the importance of collaboration and relationships.
...COVID really pulled a curtain back on those issues, and we saw it in vaccine...
Date: Jan 20, 2021
Kim Barber Tieman, program director for health and human services for the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, shares how her foundation set up a COVID-19 grant capture team and funded grant writers to help organizations navigate and apply for federal funding opportunities. In addition, her foundation worked with organizations and funded three mobile COVID testing units to better reach communities of color.
...COVID immunizations across the state. How do we get that vaccine out to the public...
Date: Jun 30, 2021
On the list of leading causes of death, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, impacts millions of rural Americans and their quality of life. Though limited treatments are available for COPD, research indicates that pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) provides major benefits, yet is currently under-prescribed and facing challenges from COVID-19 and from reimbursement policies. Researchers discuss the potential that tele-PR might bring to rural areas, and rural healthcare leaders highlight the benefits of their PR programs for service areas.
...COVID-19 did delay the program’s start, Johnson said now that these patients are vaccinated...
Date: Oct 14, 2020
Wondering about animal-to-human diseases? Or human medical conditions related to the environment? Federal experts join health educators to talk about how understanding a One Health approach for human, animal, and environmental health can be helpful for rural healthcare organizations.
...COVID-19, also start off in an animal. That makes a One Health approach critically important.” Consider rabies . “People tend to know about rabies because they know they’re supposed to get their dogs...
Date: Apr 28, 2021
Fast, reliable broadband is essential for people to access telehealth and patient portals as well as work and study from home, but rural and tribal areas fall behind urban and suburban areas in terms of broadband deployment and speed. Organizations in Alabama, Colorado, and Kentucky share how broadband affects their work and their patients’ care.
...COVID-19 pandemic, fast, reliable broadband is also important for people to work from home, take online classes, and order groceries and other items online. For healthcare facilities, broadband is needed to send electronic files...
Date: Mar 11, 2020
Libraries in South Carolina, Vermont, and Washington work to improve their communities’ health by providing monthly programs and teaching patrons and staff how to access reliable health information online.
...Rural Libraries Help Communities Access Health Information --- Libraries in South Carolina, Vermont, and Washington work...