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- Author: Lisa Inman
- Wednesday, Jul. 29, 2020
As agencies and institutions sounded alarms indicating the spread of the novel coronavirus, NRHA advocates went into high gear. NRHA CEO Alan Morgan began fielding a deluge of queries from local and national news outlets. “Who’s most at risk?” Morgan responded to one interviewer. “Elderly, low-income people with high health needs. That is rural America. If you were to have a cluster in a rural community it would turn bad quickly.”
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Educating more nurse practitioners (NPs) for rural practice is essential to address provider shortages in America’s small towns. The Collaborative for Rural Primary care Research, Education, and Practice (Rural PREP) is studying rural-oriented primary care NP education programs and clinical training consistent with the organization’s goal of improving education and preparing providers for successful rural primary care practice.
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The All of Us program aims to advance precision medicine, an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle. Learn about key updates and next steps for All of Us.
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Rural Horizons
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Staffing challenges. Financial concerns. Rural regions ravaged by poverty, unemployment, and the opioid crisis. These harsh realities take center stage in this issue of Rural Horizons. And they are echoed in The Providers, a new PBS documentary that shows how rural health care professionals can make a difference in the lives of their patients in the face of overwhelming odds.
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Treating alcohol addiction is not a simple process. In Gallup, N.M., new behavioral health services software is helping providers identify patient system commonalities and collaborate to facilitate successful treatment outcomes.
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Author:
Saqib Rana
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The people of tight-knit Stigler, Okla., demonstrate that size and rurality will not hinder them from improving the health of their community. Stigler Health & Wellness Center has engaged their community to help fight opioid use disorder with education and training.
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Rural Horizons
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Solving the rural opioid crisis starts with bringing awareness to a complex problem. It means difficult conversations between patients and providers, neighbors, family, and colleagues. Finding a way for rural communities to move forward requires collaboration from partners across health care, law enforcement, industry, and community organizations.
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National Rural Health Association
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NRHA comes to Atlanta this spring for its flagship event, the association’s 42nd Annual Rural Health Conference May 7-10 at the Marriott Marquis, with unique offerings courtesy of the Magnolia State.
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National Rural Health Association
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Improving access to oral health services is a critical need in rural America, and community health workers (CHWs) are a key part of the solution. CHWs live and work in the communities they serve, which makes them uniquely positioned to build relationships with underserved rural and frontier populations.
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Diane Hall, senior policy analyst at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), discusses CDC’s work in rural health, the importance of data collection, and CDC’s excitement for the upcoming NRHA Annual Rural Health Conference in Atlanta.
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Research can be a powerful tool that informs decisions and transforms the way we approach health programs and policies — but the numbers don’t always speak for themselves. To help illustrate the unique nature of rural health, we need people to bring those numbers to life and share research findings within the context of real-life experiences and stories. NRHA staff has identified four stakeholders that are on the vanguard of rural health research.
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