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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In 2019 he was the American Academy of Physician Assistants PA of the Year and recipient of the Primary Care Community Leadership Award and the National Association of Rural Mental Health Schumacher Award for Excellence in Clinical Service. In 2020, U.S.

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Rural Health Information Hub

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The public pleas for testing are part of health officials’ efforts to halt the outbreak that has disproportionately hurt Native Americans in the Great Plains and Southwest. The epidemiology center’s region spans Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

“Estamos mucho mejor preparados para responder a una pandemia que en 2020”, declaró Amy Palmer, vocera de la Oficina de Servicios de Emergencia del Gobernador de California (Cal OES).

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Community health worker programs can address common barriers in rural areas, where people face higher rates of poverty and certain health problems , said Gabriela Boscán Fauquier, who oversees community health worker initiatives at the National Rural Health Association.

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HEALTHBEAT

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Community health worker programs can address common barriers in rural areas, where people face higher rates of poverty and certain health problems , said Gabriela Boscán Fauquier, who oversees community health worker initiatives at the National Rural Health Association.

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NC Health News

APRIL 14, 2025

He described Bailey, which had a population of fewer than 600 people at the 2020 U.S. Mark Winstead, a pastor at Restoration Purpose Church in the small Nash County town of Bailey, is also trying to find a good site for his communitys kiosk. Census, as a place where everybody knows everybody. Theres still a stigma there, Winstead said.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

OCTOBER 24, 2024

increase compared to 2020, and a sharp increase from the often publicly cited data. Many veterans health advocates say the updated number may still be underestimating the crisis. This community-based program leverages veterans to help fellow veterans build mental health resilience.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

It is important to acknowledge here that hundreds more hospitals, many in rural health shortage areas or in inner cities, would have closed had they not been rescued by larger systems. How to Think about Measuring Social Benefit from Large Health Systems. Forty years later, there were 700 fewer facilities generating about $1.2

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NC Health News

MARCH 14, 2025

The closure has forced residents of Martin County, which was home to about 22,000 people at the 2020 Census, to travel more than 20 miles to neighboring Beaufort County for emergency care. The Medicaid uncertainty at the federal level is a concern across rural communities because of the impact on rural health care, Carter said.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

MARCH 11, 2025

While telehealth is expanding access to substance use disorder treatment in rural areas, a new study suggests that it’s failing to adequately serve Medicaid beneficiaries, as they are less likely than the privately insured to access substance use disorder treatment. lower in the third quarter of 2023 than in the second quarter of 2020.

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HEALTHBEAT

MARCH 3, 2025

Erin Fraher, a health policy professor at the University of North Carolina who advises the commission and studies the issue , said lawmakers who support the changes predict they will boost the rural health workforce. But its unclear whether that will happen, she said, because the programs are just getting started.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

MARCH 31, 2025

Whats in the legislation now Historically, because of a law dating back to 1997, Medicare beneficiaries could only access telehealth and virtual care services if they met two criteria, Zebley said: They had to be in a rural area and had to receive those services inside a Medicare providers office.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 26, 2024

“Aunque sólo haya un 5% de probabilidades de que se produzca una pandemia de gripe aviar, estamos hablando de una pandemia que probablemente se parezca a la de 2020 o a algo peor”, señaló Tom Peacock, investigador de la gripe aviar en el Instituto Pirbright del Reino Unido, refiriéndose a covid.

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

” For example, in spring 2020, the North Carolina health department, led by current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Mandy Cohen, failed to get covid testing to vulnerable Black communities where people were getting sick and dying from covid-related causes at far higher rates than white people.

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NC Health News

MARCH 19, 2025

But as the population ages and declines, fewer rural women are getting pregnant. In 56 of North Carolinas 100 counties, adults 65 and older accounted for 20% or more of the population in 2020, according to the Office of State Budget and Management. In 2010, this was true of only 15 counties.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

“Even if there’s only a 5% chance of a bird flu pandemic happening, we’re talking about a pandemic that probably looks like 2020 or worse,” said Tom Peacock, a bird flu researcher at the Pirbright Institute in the United Kingdom, referring to covid-19. ” Rural health departments are also stretched thin.

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HEALTHBEAT

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Even if theres only a 5% chance of a bird flu pandemic happening, were talking about a pandemic that probably looks like 2020 or worse, said Tom Peacock, a bird flu researcher at the Pirbright Institute in the United Kingdom, referring to Covid-19. Rural health departments are also stretched thin.

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

En una sofocante tarde de julio de 2020, Belinda Ramones recibió una llamada informándole que su hermano estaba en el hospital. Ella impulsó regulaciones sobre el calor en California en 2020. Cuando llegó, “mi hermano estaba hinchado de pies a cabeza”, dijo.

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NC Health News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The topic exposed raw emotions, tears and steadfast determination at recent meetings of LATIN-19, an online gathering of health workers and community organizations that began meeting weekly in March 2020 to disseminate information to Latino communities about COVID-19.

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NC Health News

APRIL 1, 2025

percent in 2020 to 92.5 If students dont have the required vaccinations, or are exempted, they wont be allowed at school. The percentage of incoming kindergartners who are considered fully vaccinated against these illnesses has dropped statewide from 94.2 percent in 2023, according to the states immunization dashboard.

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NC Health News

APRIL 29, 2025

This scenario recently played out in western North Carolina, where Hurricane Helene left many rural health care facilities inoperable. The mobile health care company will use the funding to design and build mobile medical suites self-contained clinical units tailored for rural health systems.

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