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Rural Living RSS FeedsQuality Incentives for Federally Qualified Health Centers, Rural Health Clinics and Free Clinics: A Report to Congress - Discusses current initiatives and incentives that apply to primary care clinics regarding quality of care and the use of health information technology. -- George Washington University Department of Health Policy...Feed Source: healthit.hhs.gov Growing Your Regions Economy with Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs - Highlights the innovative approaches being taken by five regional development organizations (RDO) in Colorado, Oregon, Texas, and Wisconsin to spur job growth in rural areas through new business startups or existing business expansions. -- National Association of Development Organizations... Assessing Mental Health Needs of Rural Schools in South Texas: Counselors Perspectives - Describes results from a survey on the mental health resource needs and issues of rural schools in South Texas. Presents national and state level data on mental health services and needs. -- Texas A&M University - Kingsville... The Income Divide in Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Help Restore Fairness to the U.S. Health System - Presents results from a survey revealing data on uninsured adults and children living in poverty. Describes how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will work to reduce these uninsured rates. -- Commonwealth Fund... Rural Residency Training for Family Medicine Physicians: Graduate Early-Career Outcomes - Discusses family medicine rural training track residency programs (RTTs), which train physicians for practice in rural and underserved areas. -- Rural Training Track Technical Assistance Program... Primary Care Workforce Facts and Stats No. 3: Distribution of the U.S. Primary Care Workforce - Shows that primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants are more likely to practice in rural areas than are non-primary care specialists, but are still more concentrated in urban areas. -- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality... Oral Health Quality Improvement in the Era of Accountability - Reviews the status and trends in oral health quality measurement and improvement, and outlines efforts in place to expand and enhance them. Describes how to use these measurement and quality improvement systems to improve the oral health of the U.S. population. -- ... Relevant Quality Measures for Critical Access Hospitals - Policy brief describes quality measures relevant to Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) and identifies policy implications. -- Flex Monitoring Team... Ohio Appalachian Residents' Views on Smoke-free Laws and Cigarette Warning Labels - Presents results from a study that explored attitudes and beliefs of residents in Ohio Appalachia relating to smoke-free laws and public health policies in place to reduce smoking and smoking-related diseases. -- ... Explaining Health Care Reform: How Will the Affordable Care Act Affect Small Businesses and Their Employees? - Describes ACA initiatives that will be implemented between now and the year 2016 and affect small businesses in terms of insurance exchanges, penalties for not providing affordable coverage, tax credits, and grants for wellness programs. -- Kaiser Family Foundation... Results from the 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Mental Health Findings - Presents results pertaining to mental health from the 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), focusing on trends between 2008 and 2009 and differences across population subgroups in 2009. Includes statistical breakdowns between large, small, and nonmetropolitan counties. -- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration... Keeping Opportunities in Place: The Influence of the Rural Community College Initiative - Provides an assessment of the Rural Community College Initiative (RCCI). RCCI was a national demonstration program at 24 community and tribal colleges started in 1994 that worked to help community colleges in distressed rural areas to expand access to postsecondary education and help foster regional economic development. -- American Association of Community Colleges... Transforming Health Care: The Role of Health IT - Identifies six barriers to the optimal use of health information technology including: misaligned incentives, lack of health information exchange (HIE), limited level of consumer engagement with health IT tools, limited levels of EHR adoption, privacy and security concerns and vague federal priorities. -- Bipartisan Policy Center... NCHS Urban - Rural Classification Scheme for Counties: Data Evaluation and Methods Research - Details the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics development of the 2006 NCHS Urban-Rural Classification Scheme for Counties. Provides examples of how the scheme can be used to describe differences in health measures by urbanization level. -- National Center for Health Statistics... Water Fluoridation and Dental Health Indicators in Rural and Urban Areas of the United States - Investigates the availability of fluoridated water across urban-rural settings, and relates measures of fluoride availability to national survey measures of dental health in adults and children. -- West Virginia Rural Health Research Center... Poverty in Rural America - An overview of rural poverty and income. -- Housing Assistance Council... Rural Women Were Less Likely to Return for Free HPV Vaccination Follow-Up Doses - Describes a study that contrasted rates of HPV vaccine uptake between young women recruited from two rural locations and one urban location. Found that the recruitment location was a major factor in lack of uptake for the booster doses. -- Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention... Estimating Potential Changes to USDA RD's Eligible Area Designations - Discusses the potential impacts to the currentUSDA‐RD eligible area designations that could result from statutory changes linked topopulation figures from the 2010 Decennial Census. -- Housing Assistance Council... Population Change in Rural America - Presents rural population data and findings from the 2010 Census and American Community Survey (ACS). -- Housing Assistance Council... Crossing Great Divides: A Guide to Elder Mobility Resources and Solutions in Indian Country - Provides information about transportation funding opportunities to meet the needs of elders living on reservations. Describes Title VI Aging Services and Tribal Transit Programs. -- National Center on Senior Transportation ... Primary Issues Impacting Rural Health in North Dakota and Contributing Factors - Lists issues that impact rural health in North Dakota, including health care access, quality of care, HIT, health insurance, and workforce. -- University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health... Keeping the Water Flowing in Rural America for 35 Years - Addresses how the Community Resource Group (CRG) Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP) loan fund is helping small communities meet critical capital needs and find new funding. -- Housing Assistance Council... The Older Population: 2010 - Describes the older population of the United States in 2010. Part of a series that provides an overview of the population and housing data collected from the 2010 Census. -- U.S. Census Bureau... An Examination of Transportation Services Available to Rural Military Veterans for Medical Services - Reports on the services available to veterans in Pennsylvania and found that rural veterans have ongoing needs for healthcare and sometimes face significant challenges in accessing care. -- Center for Rural Pennsylvania... Medicare Part D Data Spotlight: A First Look at Part D Plan Offerings in 2012 - Examines the stand-alone Part D drug plan options available to Medicare beneficiaries in 2012. The first in a series of planned reports examining the private plan choices available to Medicare beneficiaries. -- Kaiser Family Foundation... Environmental Workforce Characteristics in the Rural Public Health Sector (Policy Brief) - Contains a policy brief on the environmental workforce characteristics of the rural public health sector. -- West Virginia Rural Health Association... Environmental Workforce Characteristics in the Rural Public Health Sector (Final Report) - Analyzes the environmental workforce characteristics of the rural public health sector to inform policy relative to coordination of rural environmental health services. -- West Virginia Rural Health Research Center... Serving Those Who Have Served: Educational Needs of Health Care Providers Working with Military Members, Veterans, and their Families - Discusses findings from a survey of rural and urban mental health and primary care providers, which explored providers' experience with and knowledge of the VA and Armed Forces personnel. -- Veterans Health Administration's Office of Rural Health... The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program: Oral Health and HIV - Discusses oral health problems people living with HIV/AIDS experience. Includes barriers to oral health care, oral health services available, and special projects, including providing oral health care to those with HIV/AIDS in rural settings. -- Health Resources and Services Administration... Building Blocks for Cultural Integration in the Development and Establishment of Rural VA Telemental Health Clinics for Native Veterans - Offers a short overview, plus suggestions and tips for setting up, operating, and maintaining Telemental Health (TMH) Clinics, in the form of live interactive videoconferencing. -- Veterans Rural Health Resource Center Western Region: Native Domain... Bill Allows Incentives for Rural Health Professionals - KSFY Sioux Falls, (SD) article reports that the South Dakota Senate has passed a bill allowing incentive payments as a way to entice more health care professionals to rural areas of the state.... HHS Unveils Requirements for Consumer Insurance Labels - Kaiser Health News article shows examples of the standard, easy-to-understand forms that insurance plans will be required to provide consumers under under the administration's final regulations issued yesterday.... An Age 'Valley' Confronts the Great Plains - Daily Yonder article discusses how a region's needs and its potential come, in part, from the age distribution of the people who live there, but the rural areas of Great Plains and Midwest are lodged between bookend generations, the youngest and oldest, with a demographic valley in between.... Is a Health Insurance Rebate in Your Future? - Center for Rural Affairs article tells how an estimated nine million Americans could receive rebates from their health insurers in 2012. Those most likely to receive rebates will include many rural small business owners and self-employed workers, such as farmers, ranchers and rural mainstreet entrepreneurs.... Health Reform to Require Insurers to Use Plain Language in Describing Health Plan Benefits, Coverage - People in the market for health insurance will soon have clear, understandable and straightforward information on what health plans will cover, what limitations or conditions will apply, and what they will pay for services thanks to the Affordable Care Act the health reform law according to final regulations published today.... HHS Launches Strong Start Initiative to Increase Healthy Deliveries and Reduce Preterm Births - To help reduce the increasing number of preterm births in America and ensure more babies are born healthy, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced more than $40 million in grants to test ways to reverse that trend, as well as a public campaign to reduce early elective deliveries.... Payment Cuts to Critical Access Hospitals 'Inevitable' - HealthLeaders Media article discusses how many rural hospital leaders are in denial about a major funding cut to critical access hospitals that some call "inevitable" within the next three years.... SAMHSA is Accepting Applications for up to $15.6 Million to Fund Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act (STOP Act) Grants - The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is accepting applications for up to a four year total of $15.6 million to fund STOP Act grants aimed at preventing alcohol use among underage youth in communities across the nation.... Healthcare.gov Helps Same - Sex Couples Find Coverage by Adding New Details - Americans are now able to use HealthCare.gov to search specifically for insurance plans that include coverage for domestic partners, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today.... HUD Announces More Than $400 Million in Indian Housing Block Grants - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced $404 million in Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) allocations to nearly 300 tribes in 27 states.... New Study: Small Businesses Could Buy Health Insurance for Nearly 10 Million Workers Through the Affordable Care Act's Small Business Health Insurance Exchanges - Commonwealth Fund article reports that the Affordable Care Acts state health insurance exchanges for small businesses are estimated to cover nearly 10 million employees, in addition to the 15.3 million individuals who will gain coverage through the individual exchanges when the law is fully implemented, according to an article in the February issue of Health Affairs.... CMS Gives Consumers Access to More Details About Infection Rates at Americas Hospitals - Central line-associated bloodstream infections are among the most serious of all healthcare-associated infections, resulting in thousands of deaths each year and nearly $700 million in added costs to the U.S. healthcare system. Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that Hospital Compare will now include data about how often these preventable infections occur in hospital intensive care units across the country.... Rural Unemployment Ticks Up - Daily Yonder article reports that for the first time since March, unemployment in rural America moved ahead of urban counties in December 2011, according to data just released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.... New Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds Profound Income Divide in Health Insurance and Access to Health Care; Health Reform Could Nearly Eliminate Gaps When Fully Implemented in 2014 - Adults in low - and moderate - income families are more likely to be uninsured, to lack a regular source of health care, and to struggle to get the health care they need compared to those in higher-income families, according to a new Commonwealth Fund survey.... CDC Releases Its First iPad "App" - In an effort to enable fast and efficient mobile delivery of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC's) critical health information, they have released their first iPad "App" . The CDC App is free for anyone to download.... With Uncle Sam's Help, Americans Return to the Farm - MSNBC article tells how fueled by an economic downturn that has curtailed the upward mobility of many corporate jobs, general dissatisfaction with suburban stresses and growing discontent with what they see as the ills of industrialized agriculture, thousands of families across the United States have left suburban cul de sacs and headed to the countryside - forging a new demographic of family farmer.... Agriculture Deputy Secretary Merrigan Announces Funding to Create Jobs and Strengthen the Economic Foundation of Rural America - Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan today announced that USDA has selected 298 recipients in 44 states and Puerto Rico to receive business development assistance through the Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG) program.... Questions Emerge About Whether War Savings Can Pay for 'Doc Fix' - Kaiser Health News brings together a variety of articles discussing how hospitals, physicians and some members of Congress want to use war savings as a way to get rid of Medicare's sustainable growth rate formula, but congressional rules could complicate things.... Rural Jobs Four Years After Recession - Most of rural America has not recovered from the recession that began four years ago, a Daily Yonder analysis of federal jobs figures has found.... Family Physicians Lead in Specialties in Providing Rural Health Care - AAFP News Now article reports that family physicians provide more health care to rural areas than other primary care or subspecialty physicians, according to data released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.... Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority - In this notice the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention amends their Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority for a variety of agencies including the Division of Adolescent and School Health, the Division of Adult and Community Health, the Division of Oral Health, and many others.... The Worth of the Rural 'Creative Economy' - Daily Yonder article tells how from the Blues Trail through the Delta to the Walter Anderson Museum on the Gulf Coast, rural Mississippi's economy is buoyed by what they call the "creative economy."... Data Illustrate Geographic Dispersal of Family Physicians, Other Primary Care Professionals - AAFP News Now article reports that family physicians are the most likely of any physician specialty or subspecialty to practice in rural areas and the most likely to be geographically distributed in the same proportion as the U.S. population, according to a one-page fact sheet published by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).... How One Hospital Entices Doctors to Work In Rural America - NPR Health Blog article tells how the Ashland Health Clinic, a tiny hospital in southwest Kansas, is trying a reverse-recruitment model, by offering potential candidates eight weeks off to do missionary work overseas.... Sen. Udall Drafting Bill to Kill Telemedicine Barriers - Government Health IT article reports that Sen. Tom Udall (D-New Mexico) anticipates introducing a bill this spring to make it easier for physicians to practice telemedicine in many states instead of applying for a separate license for each state.... Rural Relevant Quality Measures for CAHs - NRHA Rural Health Voices blog reports that the FLEX Monitoring Team just released a Brief on rural relevant quality measures for Critical Access Hospitals (CAH). The purpose of the brief is to provide a set of rural relevant quality measure for policy makers and the rural health provider community.... Aging America Creates Demand for Health - Care Workers - Reuters article reports that the graying of America and a booming Hispanic population is driving major changes in the structure of the U.S. workforce and the types of jobs that will be available over the next decade, according to a new government report.... House Bill Would Gouge Rural Transit - Daily Yonder article discusses how rural transportation leaders are speaking out against a proposal before Congress that would cut funding for needed public transit programs.... Rural Health: Residency Doctor Chooses to Return to Rural Roots - Tri-State Neighbor, (SD) article profiles students in the almost 40-year-old Sioux Falls Family Medicine Residency program that has helped produce about 300 doctors since 1973.... Heat from Farmers Results in Rethinking of Youth Labor Limits - Washington Times, (DC) article reports that bowing to an angry backlash from agriculture groups and family farmers across the country, the Obama administration Wednesday said it would scale back proposed new rules that would have sharply limited the amount of work young people can do on farms.... Copyright © 2012, Jelloreceipes.com. All Rights Reserved. |