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Rural Living RSS FeedsBreaking Down the Barriers: A National Needs Assessment on Farmworker Health Outreach - Provides a national snapshot on the needs of farmworker health outreach programs. -- ...Feed Source: www.outreach-partners.org Health Literacy Online: A Guide to Writing and Designing Easy-to-Use Health Web Sites - Offers a research-based how-to guide for creating health Web sites and Web content for the millions of Americans with limited literacy skills and limited experience using the Web. The strategies in this guide complement accepted principles of good Web design and thus have the potential to improve the online experience for all users, regardless of literacy skills. -- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services... Unemployment Dips in May - Reports that the average unemployment rate in rural counties in May 2010 was 9.3%. In urban counties, the rate averaged 9.4%. And in exurban counties, the rate averaged 8.9%. -- ... Community Health Centers and Health Reform: Summary of Key Health Center Provisions - Summarizes key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 that directly or indirectly impact community health centers. -- National Association of Community Health Centers... Health Care Reform, Whats in It?: Rural Communities and Rural Medical Care - Summarizes access provisions in the Affordable Care Act directly targeted to rural communities, rural medical care and the expansion of the health care workforce. -- Center for Rural Affairs... Increases in Primary Care Physician Income due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010--Continued Tweaking of Physician Payment - The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) authorizes several changes to the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) system that are designed to increase primary care physician personal income and reduce geographic variation in primary care payment. -- RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis... HHS Strategic Plan 2010 2015 (Draft) - Includes the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, (HHS) strategic plan for 2010-2015. -- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services... Best Practices & Success Stories: A Guidebook for Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program Coordinators - Draws on the experiences and advice of some of the more experienced Flex Coordinators to provide practical strategies and advice to help their fellow Flex Coordinators succeed in managing a State Flex Program. -- National Rural Health Resource Center... State Roles in Delivery System Reform - Outlines the evidence in health system reforms,as well as the opportunities for governors to lead these efforts. Provides tools and levers available to states to create a more efficient and effective health care system in both rural and urban environments. -- National Governor's Association... Challenges for Improving Health Care Access in Rural America: A Compendium of Research and Policy Analysis Studies of Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Centers 2009-2010 - Released in July 2010, the compendium is a collection of twenty-four research and policy analysis studies on health care access in rural America from the Office of Rural Health Policy Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Centers. -- Office of Rural Health Policy... Rural America in the 2000s: Age - Includes maps showing that America has gotten older since 2000 and rural America has gotten older than its city and exurban neighbors. -- ... Key Points for Rural About HIT Meaningful Use - Describes key points on how the final rule on the Health Information Technology meaningful use definition will impact critical access hospitals (CAHs). -- National Rural Health Resource Center... Foreign Language Course Offerings in Pennsylvania School Districts - Indicates that rural secondary students in Pennsylvania do not have as many opportunities as urban secondary students to learn a foreign language while they are in school. -- Center for Rural Pennsylvania... Survey of Emergency Management and Preparedness Agencies in Pennsylvania's Rural Counties - Includes an analysis of Pennsylvania emergency preparedness policies and budgets, an online survey of county and regional emergency preparedness practitioners, and interviews with state emergency preparedness officials. -- Center for Rural Pennsylvania... Direct Care Worker Training for Aging Clients with Developmental Disabilities - Reports that Pennsylvania policies governing direct care workers' training for aging and mental retardation/developmental disabilities services are inconsistent across provider facility types, even though the populations and their needs are often similar. -- Center for Rural Pennsylvania... How Yoopers See the Future of Their Communities: Why Residents Leave or Stay in Michigans Upper Peninsula - Explores reasons residents of Michigan's Upper Peninsula claim for staying in or leaving this rural area. Employment opportunities and energy costs are factors affecting their decisions to leave. -- Carsey Institute... Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Electronic Health Record Incentive Program (Final Rule) - Final rule implements the provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) (Pub. L. 111-5) that provide incentive payments to eligible professionals, hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs that adopt and successfully demonstrate meaningful use of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology. -- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services... Expanding Health Centers Under Health Care Reform: Doubling Patient Capacity and Bringing Down Costs - Defines how $11 billion from the health reform package will fund new health centers, plus expand and modernize existing health centers. -- National Association of Community Health Centers... FCC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking - Proposes and seeks comment on reforms to the universal service health care support mechanism that are consistent with the recommendations setforth in the National Broadband Plan to expand the reach and use of broadband connectivity for and bypublic and non-profit health care providers. -- Federal Communications Commission... Rural Health Roundtables: A Strategy for Collaborative Engagement In and Between Rural Communities (Project Report) - Explores a strategy for relationship building within rural communities in order to overcome resource deficits when responding to public health emergencies and natural disasters. -- ... Rural America in the 2000s: Population - Discusses changes in population, ethnicity, and population trends in rural areas and shows a map of all rural counties in the U.S. and whether they gained or lost population from 2000 to 2009. -- ... Rural Counties Overcome Barriers to Improve Health - Describes how six communities in rural Northeast Iowa promote health by increasing access to healthy, locally grown foods. -- Iowa Department of Public Health... Healthy Food, Healthy Communities: Promising Strategies to Improve Access to Fresh, Healthy Food and Transform Communities - Describes how low-income communities of color and low-income rural areas are most affectedby limited access to healthy food and what can be done to improve this disparity. -- PolicyLink... The Grocery Gap: Who Has Access to Health Food and Why It Matters - Summary of the current knowledge about food deserts - areas where there is little or no access to healthy and affordable food - and their impact on communities. -- PolicyLink... Accountable Care Organizations: Will They Deliver? - Broadly examines the accountable care organizations (ACOs) by defining the concepts and rationale for interest in it, reviewing what has been learned from previous initiatives, and placing ACOs in the context of the broader health care system. -- Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.... Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: Key Health Equity Provisions - Identifies how health reform presents an opportunity to address fundamental inequities in the health care system and among communities by helping to reduce racial and ethnic disparities. -- Families USA... Health Care Employment Projections: An Analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Projections, 2008-2018 - Provides a summary of labor projections for the period 2008 through 2018 for health care settings and health care occupations. -- Center for Health Workforce Studies... At the Intersection of Public Health and Transportation: Promoting Healthy Transportation Policy - Provides evidence-based information about how transportation policy and practice in suburban, urban and rural communities affect public health. -- American Public Health Association... Alzheimers Disease Facts and Figures: Includes a Special Report on Race, Ethnicity and Alzheimers Disease - Provides a statistical resource for United States data related to Alzheimers disease, the most common type of dementia, as well as other dementias. Includes implications for rural residents. -- ... Parks, Playgrounds and Active Living - Summarizes the growing body of evidence concerning the role of urban and rural parks in shaping active lifestyles across a variety of study populations, including children, seniors, lower-income families, specific racial and ethnic groups and other populations at high risk of being inactive. -- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation... Support For Health Law Remains Steady While Opposition Drops - Kaiser Health News article reports that the percentage of people who view the new health bill unfavorably dropped6 points to 35 percent in the past month, but that has not translated into a significant increase of supporters, according to the July tracking poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation.... Joint Commission Urges Americans to Speak Up to Prevent Falls - Recognizing that each year, millions of people from elderly nursing home residents to hospitalized children to women who have just given birth are injured by falls in health care facilities and homes, the Joint Commission yesterday launched a national educational campaign to help Americans reduce the risk of falling.... Provisions in Health Care Reform Law Lay Out Role of Primary Care, Family Physicians - AAFP News Now article discusses how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act places greater emphasis on prevention and primary care coordination, measures that should lead to a greater role for primary care and family physicians in the U.S. health care system.... Health Information Technology: Initial Set of Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria for Electronic Health Record Technology; Final Rule - The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is issuing this final rule to complete the adoption of an initial set of standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria, and to more closely align such standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria with final meaningful use Stage 1 objectives and measures.... FCC, FDA Partner on Wireless Health IT - Datamation article reports that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have joined forces in an effort to promote the development and deployment of wireless technologies to improve health care and lower costs while also taking care to protect patients' safety.... NRHA Submits Hospital Telemedicine Credentialing Privileging Comment Letter to CMS - The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) submitted its comment letter this week in response to CMS' proposed changes affecting Hospital and Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Conditions of Participation (CoPs) Credentialing and Privileging of Telemedicine Physicians and Practitioners.... Expanded Tax Relief on State Loan Repayment, Forgiveness Programs Benefits Physicians, Medically Underserved Individuals - AAFP News Now article tells how physicians who have received student loan forgiveness as an incentive to practice in medically underserved areas of their states may be eligible for some relief from federal income taxes on those loan amounts.... Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation; Request for Comments on the Departmental FY 2010-2015 Strategic Plan - The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking public comment on its draft Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2010-2015.... Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Electronic Health Record Incentive Program; Final Rule - This final rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services implements the provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that provide incentive payments to eligible professionals, eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs that adopt and successfully demonstrate meaningful use of certified electronic health record technology.... 2 New Provisions in Health Law Will Help Seniors - Kaiser Health News article reports on two of the biggest pocketbook issues involving the health-care overhaul and how seniors will be affected.... Unemployment Dips in May - Daily Yonder article reports that for the first time since last fall, the unemployment rate in rural America has dropped below that of urban counties.... HHS Releases Strategic Plan for 2010-2015 - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, (HHS) has released their Strategic Plan for 2010-2015, and wants to know what you think about the draft.... Small N.D. Hospitals Learn from Computer Mannequin - Bismarck Tribune, (ND) article tells how a $40,000 computerized mannequin is being used to train medical staff to treat critical cases at smaller regional health care facilities.... HUD Fair Housing Report Documents Progress, Identifies Challenges - The Department of Housing and Urban Development last week released the Obama Administration's first annual report on the state of fair housing in America.... Experts Believe Lack of Incentives and Financial Interests Are Barriers to Integrated and Accountable Care - Nearly nine of 10 leaders in health care and health care policy think that the lack of incentives and current financial interests of providers and other stakeholders are barriers to moving health care toward more integrated and accountable delivery models, according to the latest Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Health Care Opinion Leaders Survey.... Wiring the Safety Net - Government HealthIT article profiles Dr. Mary Wakefield, administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), who singles out telehealth, encompassing both videoconferencing and streaming media, as an area of health information technology that holds great promise for helping HRSAs constituents, particularly those in remote areas.... Sunday, July 25: 'America Now: Friends and Neighbors' - MSNBC article tells of a "Dateline" news story, "America Now: Friends & Neighbors," airing on Sunday, July 25, that travels to rural/Appalachian Ohio to give a look at how the recession has affected America's poor in the heartland.... HUD and VA Launch $15 Million Demonstration Program to Prevent Veteran Homelessness - In an effort to prevent homelessness among veterans, primarily those returning from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced that both agencies will invest a combined $15 million in five selected communities near military installations.... AHRQ State Snapshots Expanded to Include New Data on Health Insurance Coverage - The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) annual release of state-by-state quality data has been expanded to include new data on health insurance, including data on health care quality categorized by source of payment, including private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid and those without insurance.... Summary Serves as 'Roadmap' for Rural Health Care Reform - North Liberty Leader, (IA) article tells how rural health care advocates, policymakers and researchers looking to make sense of the 900-plus-page health care reform legislation can access a new, comprehensive summary of the provisions that pertain to rural residents and the delivery of health care services in rural areas.... The Negotiated Rulemaking Committee on the Designation of Medically Underserved Populations and Health Professions Shortage Areas; Notice of Establishment - This notice from the Health Resources and Services Administration announces the establishment of the Negotiated Rulemaking Committee on the Designation of Medically Underserved Populations and Health Professions Shortage Areas.... Updated: Secretary Announces Appointment of Committee to Review Criteria for the Designation of Medically Underserved Areas and Health Professional Shortage Areas - HHS Secretary Sebelius yesterday announced the appointment of a committee to review and update the criteria used to define medically underserved areas and health professional shortage areas.... NRHA Added to HPSA/MUP Committee - HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced a revised membership list for the Health Resources and Services Administration's Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) and Medically Underserved Areas/Populations (MUA/P) negotiated rulemaking committee. The new list, which has increased from 24 to 28 members, includes National Rural Health Association (NRHA) CEO Alan Morgan as a participant.... New Rules Guarantee Patients' Right to Appeal Insurance Claim Denials - Kaiser Health News tells how patients will find it easier to appeal the denials of health insurance claims under rules being issued today by the Obama administration.... Ah Doctor, What Exactly Does This Entry Mean? - HealthDay News article reports that in an effort to improve patient-doctor communication, researchers are launching a pilot program called the "OpenNotes" initiative, in which approximately 25,000 patients will have access to notes their doctors have made in their medical records.... HHS Announces Thursday Call on EHR Rules - AHA News reports that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Office of the National Coordinator will host a July 22 "audio training" session on the final rules for "meaningful use" and certification of electronic health records (EHR) under the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs.... Hearing Explores Challenges Faced by Rural VA Patients - Roanoke Times, (VA) article tells of a hearing that was held by a subcommittee of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs that discussed problems affecting rural veterans and what can be done to address the needs and challenges of veterans living in rural areas.... Rural America in the 2000s: Age - Daily Yonder article tells how America has gotten older since 2000 and rural America has gotten older than its city and exurban neighbors, but there are some striking exceptions.... Digital Diagnosis: More Patients Seeing Doctors via Internet - Bakersfield Express, (CA) article tells how the Alta Family Health Clinic teledermatology program in Dinuba serves uninsured and low-income patients in surrounding rural areas.... Program Attracts Medical Students to Rural Health Care - Tomah Journal, (WI) article tells of the Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine (WARM) program, dedicated to increasing the number of physicians in rural Wisconsin and improving the health of its communities.... Copyright © 2010, Donna's List. All Rights Reserved. |