Workforce Training Center in Chewelah Would Give Internships to Rural High Schoolers
Highlights a project to offer internships for rural high school students and create a training center in Washington for careers in health and other industries. Notes that the project may help keep students in the region once they graduate. (Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center - March 17, 2024 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
A new kind of hospital is coming to rural America. To qualify, facilities must close their beds
Rural emergency hospitals are starting to gain a small foothold in the United States (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
A new kind of hospital is coming to rural America. To qualify, facilities must close their beds
As rural hospitals continue to struggle financially, a new type of hospital is slowly taking root, especially in the Southeast. Rural emergency hospitals receive more than $3 million in federal funding a year and higher Medicare reimbursements in exchange for closing all inpatient beds and…#southeast #medicare #carriecochranmcclain #south #midwest #nebraska #florida #georgepink #irwincountyhospital #ocilla (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Barriers to opioid use disorder treatment among people who use drugs in the rural United States: a qualitative, multi-site study - Stopka TJ, Estadt AT, Leichtling G, Schleicher JC, Mixson LS, Bresett J, Romo E, Dowd P, Walters SM, Young AM, Zule W, Friedmann PD, Go VF, Baker R, Fredericksen RJ.
BACKGROUND: In 2020, 2.8 million people required substance use disorder (SUD) treatment in nonmetropolitan or 'rural' areas in the U.S. Among this population, only 10% received SUD treatment from a specialty facility, and 1 in 500 received medication for o... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 16, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Strategies to enhance the level of service and safety of rural roads: a case study - Ai Q, Zhang J, Ye Y.
Faced with the contradiction between the increasing traffic volume and the aging road infrastructures in the rural area, this paper aims to propose feasible strategies to enhance the level of service and safety, by a case study of the rural area in the nor... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 16, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Some Rural Hospitals Are Removing All Inpatient Beds, Leading to Confusion and No Margin for Error
Discusses uptake of the Rural Emergency Hospital designation that aims to prevent hospital closures. Notes that conversions have happened primarily in the South. Discusses challenges with implementation, community feedback, and policy efforts to make the designation more accessible to rural hospitals. (Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center - March 16, 2024 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Census Bureau: Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; National Survey of Children's Health
The U.S. Census Bureau is providing an additional 30 days for comments on proposed revisions to the National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH). NSCH is designed to collect data on the physical and emotional health of children age 18 and younger, including information related to access to healthcare, family interactions, and school and after-school experiences, among other things. Comments are due within 30 days of this notice. (Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - March 15, 2024 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Use CAD to assess breast tissue volume on MRI
Using computer-assisted detection (CAD) software to assess enhancing breast tissue as a percentage of the entire breast volume on contrast MR imaging shows promise for improving breast cancer diagnosis, researchers have found.
The study results could help streamline workflow in busy radiology departments and perhaps even make breast MRI more accessible, wrote a team led by Barbara I. Bennani-Baiti, MD, of the Medical University of Vienna in Austria. The findings were published March 12 in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
"[A tool that] would greatly alleviate the workload and free the reporting radiologists to ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 14, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Clinical News Subspecialties MRI Womens Imaging Breast Breast Imaging Source Type: news
FCC Increases Broadband Speed Benchmark
Following an annual assessment of telecommunications capability, the Federal Communications Commission has raised the benchmark for broadband download and upload speeds. Notes that broadband deployment in rural and tribal areas is not happening in a reasonable timeframe. (Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center - March 14, 2024 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Rural Health Centers Across Tennessee Are Getting Solar Microgrids
Funding for rural Federally Qualified Health Centers in Tennessee and across the South has been awarded for installing solar panels and battery systems. The mini grid systems will allow the facilities to continue offering critical services during power outages. (Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center - March 14, 2024 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Telehealth study on reimbursements for rural healthcare delivery
A recent Mayo Clinic study investigated how telehealth in palliative care may provide value for rural caregivers, healthcare teams and their patients. (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - March 14, 2024 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Vaccine delivery initiative expands in Sierra Leone
A medical care and vaccine delivery project, co-led by Yale ’s Mushfiq Mobarak, is expanding into remote, rural parts of the West African nation. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - March 13, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
The Va Pioneered the Use of Telehealth for Veterans Who Can't Easily Access Health Care Facilities
Highlights the history of telehealth use by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Describes how access to specialists, behavioral healthcare, and prescription medication in particular has been improved by telehealth. Discusses how rural healthcare access is managed for veterans without reliable internet access. (Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center - March 13, 2024 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
HRSA: Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Infant and Maternal Mortality
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will hold a virtual public meeting of the Advisory Committee on Infant and Maternal Mortality (ACIMM) on April 2-4, 2024. Agenda items are being finalized but may include an update on the federal Healthy Start program; Committee discussions on the workgroup topics of rural healthcare access, social drivers of health, and women's health before/between pregnancies; federal updates; and remarks from individuals with lived experience and community members, including those representing community-based organizations, on how to achieve optimal maternal health and overall bir...
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - March 13, 2024 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
CMS: Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
The Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services (CMS) is
seeking comments on the following information collections:
1) Ambulatory Surgical Center Conditions for Coverage; 2)
Implementation of the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan (PDP)
and Medicare Advantage (MA) Plan Disenrollment Reasons
Survey; and 3) Transitional Pass through payments related
to Drugs, Biologicals, and Radiopharmaceuticals to
determine eligibility under the Outpatient Prospective
Payment System. Comments are due by May 13, 2024. (Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - March 13, 2024 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
