Rural Monitor Search Results for: social determinants of health
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Date: Jul 28, 2021
Researchers and rural communities are working together to address rural cancer prevention and control, with federal funding supporting a wide range of projects. From targeting health behaviors, to making cancer screening and vaccination more accessible, to increasing rural participation in clinical trials, efforts to reduce rural cancer burden are underway across the country. - The Rural Monitor
...social determinants of health, through considering “the environment in which people live and work and try to be healthy...
Date: Aug 11, 2021
"Swing bed" is that oft-heard phrase describing not a physical hospital bed, but post-acute care for the rural patient who is well enough to leave the acute care hospital but not well enough to be safe at home. In this 2-part story, experts and hospital administrators review the swing bed program's historical implementation and provide stories and examples of the value this over 40-year-old healthcare delivery and reimbursement model brings to patients, to the hospitals providing their care, and ultimately to rural communities. - The Rural Monitor
...social determinants of health, these were really the foundation of what this new model of care...
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. - The Rural Monitor
...social determinants impacting health status. At CHA, we are aware of these issues and elevate...
Date: Feb 16, 2022
By leveraging federal COVID-related funding, the Quapaw Nation now serves its local residents with a new community paramedicine program. Current program data indicates that it's bringing significant cost savings, along with valuable information for future local healthcare delivery decision-making. Most importantly, the program is also proving to be widely acceptable to community members. - The Rural Monitor
...social determinants of health — directly and indirectly influence someone's health and well-being. Part...
Date: Mar 9, 2022
Health literacy experts share that as healthcare delivery moves from bedside to webside, new opportunities for health literacy education arise. Emphasizing the need to swap medical jargon for plain language, educators outlined best practices for teaching health literacy principles to healthcare profession trainees. - The Rural Monitor
...social dynamics of telemedicine interactions to empirically define and determine best practices for communicating with patients and caregivers.” Tagged on to those recommendations comes another: specifically study how telemedicine impacts health...
Date: Apr 13, 2022
The greatest opportunity to tell the rural healthcare delivery story is an opportunity often missed — and that opportunity involves translating clinical documentation into medical codes. In addition to describing how the story and quality of clinical care gets translated from words into alphanumeric numbers, medical coding experts also pointed to aligned efforts to familiarize those in graduate medical education settings with the impact of their clinical documentation. - The Rural Monitor
...health outcomes. These data also help public health researchers track progress toward advancing health equity in rural America.” ICD-10 Z Codes: Capturing Social Determinants...
Date: May 4, 2022
A new library initiative in Texas and an established crisis line in Georgia are bringing mental health services directly to rural residents through teams of lay mental health workers and mental health professionals. - The Rural Monitor
...Bringing Mental Health Services to Rural Residents - The Rural Monitor --- A new library initiative in...
Date: Jun 15, 2022
For the 240,000 rural Americans with complete kidney failure, it's likely that very few knew they even had kidney disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, kidney disease is usually silent; 90% of people with kidney disease don't know they have it. With research pointing to the high costs of kidney disease for pediatric and adult patients alike — mostly covered by Medicare — experts and researchers discuss rural disparities around access to disease-stabilizing treatment and to renal replacement therapies. - The Rural Monitor
...Staving Off One's Mortality: Rural Kidney Health and Its Disparities - The Rural Monitor --- For...
Date: Aug 3, 2022
Rural healthcare delivery experts continue to emphasize the critical need for rural workforce. Using uniquely designed combined baccalaureate/medical degree programs, two university-based medical education teams shared not only the successes in training and placing physicians in rural areas — but the unique impact their service-oriented students and programs have on their academic environment. - The Rural Monitor
...Health, Medicine, and Human Values that is geared to rural New Mexico and the state's specific social determinants...
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
...Breaking the Cycle: Missouri Community Paramedicine Program Brings Primary Care to High-Risk Patients - The...