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News stories from the past 60 days.

Mar 12, 2024 - Highlights pilot projects in Vermont and Minnesota offering public transit planning and payment apps in rural communities. Discusses challenges with offering these services including customer buy-in, sustainable funding, technology limitations, and unreliable internet and cell phone service.
Source: The Daily Yonder
Mar 11, 2024 - Describes how a conventional mobile home park became a resident-owed community that offers affordable housing options in rural Minnesota.
Source: The Daily Yonder
Mar 7, 2024 - Highlights the use of telemedicine in ambulances in an effort to improve health outcomes for patients being transported long distances to receive emergency care. Discusses loss of ambulance and hospital services in addition to limited specialty care in rural communities. Describes implementation in South Dakota and Minnesota.
Source: MPR News
Feb 15, 2024 - Highlights initiatives for recruitment and retention of healthcare professionals discussed at the 2024 American Hospital Association Rural Health Care Leadership Conference. Initiatives cover topics such as training programs, employee payment models, high school student pipeline programs, and grow-your-own programs.
Source: SmartBrief
Feb 14, 2024 - Announcement of a new collaborative among 6 states aiming to understand the challenges leading to postpartum mortality and find new solutions to address it. This collaborative will work alongside the National Governors Association initiative Improving Maternal and Child Health in Rural America State and Territory Policy Learning Collaborative which focuses on policy to improve health outcomes.
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Feb 13, 2024 - Discusses a Minnesota initiative to increase diversity in farming, address access to healthy food and health equity, and improve economic opportunities in rural areas.
Source: The Daily Yonder
Feb 7, 2024 - Interviews a midwife offering services in a rural Minnesota community with a labor and delivery department closure. Discusses the planning required to travel multiple hours in order to give birth, insurance considerations, and home birth as a solution for limited access to care.
Source: MPR News
Jan 25, 2024 - Highlights challenges with accessing maternal care on tribal lands and in rural Minnesota. Discusses workforce shortages and low reimbursement rates from Medicaid as drivers of department closures. Notes high infant and maternal mortality rates for Indigenous Minnesotans.
Source: Minnesota Reformer
Jan 24, 2024 - Summarizes a recent study finding that a peer breastfeeding support program increased rates of breastfeeding among Minnesotan Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) participants, with the greatest increase seen in rural residents.
Source: Medical Xpress

Last Updated: 3/12/2024