Tag: rural health
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Area Health Education Centers work behind scenes to make a difference, help bring health providers to rural areas
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News When student Holly de la Peña learned she’d been assigned to a physician’s assistant rotation in rural southeastern Kentucky, she was a little nervous....
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Sept. 13 forum in Somerset will explore how rural communities can get healthier and get better care at lower cost
“In an era of tight budgets and strained resources, Kentucky and its rural communities can no longer afford ‘business as usual’ in the delivery of health care services,” write Susan...
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Weekly newspaper in Adair County does a special section on health and sends it to everyone in the county
Special sections on health are good for community newspapers and their readers. Health-care providers have money for advertising in such sections, and a section focused on health can have more...
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Rural hospitals to get federal help for recruiting physicians
Critical-access hospitals will get help recruiting physicians to their rural areas through an expanded loan repayment program that is part of President Obama’s new jobs initiative for rural America. The...
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Rural folks have more chronic conditions and less access to health care, and Kentucky is one of the more rural states
Though rural Americans have more chronic health conditions than those who live in urban centers, they have poorer access to health care, a working paper released last month confirms. Health...
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Defenders of small, rural hospitals take issue with study that found poor patient outcomes
A recent study that concluded small, rural “critical access hospitals” have poorer patient outcomes and lower quality of care is making waves in the medical community. A federally funded monitoring...
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Rural emergency rooms frequented by the poor and uninsured
A new report from the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality shows that low-income adults accounted for 56 percent of the 8 million rural emergency room visits in 2008....
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Rural Training Track programs get more health professionals to rural areas, but live ‘on the edge’ of funding and personnel
By Tara KaprowyKentucky Health News With the Obama administration offering more funding to improve rural health care, Rural Training Track programs to steer medical students to rural areas are hoping...
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Fewer maternity wards, fewer options for rural Kentucky women
The closing of the maternity ward at Mary Breckinridge Hospital in Hyden last year is part of a larger trend, leading to fewer options for women living in rural areas...