Exploring Health

JANUARY 15, 2025

Teaching Medical Students to Use Telehealth Can Reduce Rural Health Inequities Telehealth use has skyrocketed since the COVID-19 pandemic. A review published in 2023 in Cureus addresses student curriculum in pre-clinical years. Medical students have yet to be taught how to use it.

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Telemedicine and Virtual Healthcare Mental Health and Public Health Nutrition and Public Health Access to Healthcare 97

The NACCHO Podcast Series

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Kerry and Lauren also talk about NACCHO’s 2023 Federal Legislative and Policy Agenda and remind listeners about the upcoming virtual Public Health on the Hill event on March 6-10.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Prior to that, he was CEO of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island. He has served in numerous national and state health policy advisory capacities and was elected to the National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine in 2023. Koller is also a professor of practice in the School of Public Health at Brown University.

Mental Health and Public Health 52

Mental Health and Public Health Rural Health Health Equity Ageing and Health 52

NC Health News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

For example, Betsy Johnson Hospital was fined just $99,540 in 2023. CMS is committed to ensuring consumers have the information they need to make fully informed decisions regarding their health care, CMS spokesperson Patrice Martin told CPP in an email. In its Nov.

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NC Health News

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

In December 2023, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein sued HCA and Mission Health, alleging that they violated commitments made in the asset purchase agreement regarding cancer care and emergency services at Mission Hospital. Since HCA Healthcare purchased Mission Hospital in 2019 for $1.5

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Healthcare Systems and Hospitals Ageing and Health Rural Health 117

National Council on Urban Indian Health

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Texas Native Health Rhode Island Indian Council (New York Indian Council) Oklahoma City Indian Clinic Tucson Indian Center Kansas City Indian Center Nevada Urban Indians, Inc. Fresno American Indian Health Project Native American Connections Native American LifeLines, Inc.

Health Policy and Advocacy Organizations 52

Health Policy and Advocacy Organizations Mental Health and Public Health Community Health Centers Rural Health 52

KFF Health News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Jan Rader, director of Huntington’s Mayor’s Office of Public Health and Drug Control Policy, is regularly out on the streets and said she seldom encounters discarded syringes, pointing out that it’s necessary to exchange a used syringe for a new one.

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Rural Health Information Hub

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Explores Indian Health Service (IHS) efforts to expand staffing and capacity to administer and oversee Sanitation Facilities Construction (SFC) projects funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) in fiscal year 2023.

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NC Health News

APRIL 11, 2025

Enhancing access The COVID-19 pandemic propelled the adoption of telehealth in school settings, according to the authors of a 2023 review of more than 30 studies on school-based telehealth. In North Carolina, Health-e-Schools began providing telehealth services to schools in the western part of the state in 2011.

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Healthcare Systems and Hospitals Rural Health Health Inequalities 92

NC Health News

MARCH 23, 2025

Some states have initiatives requiring insurance companies to better support rural hospitals, but North Carolina hasnt done this so far. Workforce solutions for hospitals The dwindling rural health workforce is another urgent problem in need of a solution. And keep them trained.

Maternal and Child Health 52

Maternal and Child Health Public Health Law and Regulation Rural Health Ageing and Health 52

NC Health News

MARCH 7, 2025

Unlike the home for young men that opened in June 2023 and was built with a lot of donated materials and labor, this home will be primarily funded through a loan. In June 2023, the organization opened a second facility, Stone House, to shelter young men. Annual counts of homeless people found 46 without permanent shelter in 2023.

Mental Health and Public Health 88

Mental Health and Public Health Ageing and Health Rural Health 88

NC Health News

APRIL 3, 2025

By Jaymie Baxley Across rural North Carolina, the opioid epidemic has left a devastating mark overdose deaths have surged, families have been shattered and communities have struggled to find resources to fight the crisis. Department of Health and Human Services. Officials are still tallying deaths from 2024.

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Mental Health and Public Health Substance Use Disorders Rural Health 107

NC Health News

APRIL 14, 2025

More than 220 lives were lost to overdose in Wilson County from 2013 to 2023, according to data from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services. They were purchased with funds from a $2.9

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Substance Use Disorders Rural Health 112

NC Health News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

More than 330 people were reported to be homeless across the counties Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Mitchell, Watauga, Wilkes and Yancey served by Hospitality House, up from about 270 people in 2023. Krause said the 22 percent increase was one of the largest ever recorded in her organization’s thinly populated swathe of the state.

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Disaster and Emergency Management Mental Health and Public Health Fitness and Wellness Industry Rural Health 98

Rural Health Information Hub

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Discusses racial disparities in overdose death trends between 2021 and 2023. Notes that rural areas have unique access challenges. While overdose deaths dropped for White Americans, deaths increased for Black and Indigenous Americans. Highlights harm reduction efforts across the country and funding issues.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Sharp, a Wayne County resident for the past decade, is a trained nurse with a passion for community and public health. 5, 2023, after harvesting sweet potatoes from a Barnes Farming field in Nash County — less than two weeks after starting the job. Through word of mouth, she heard about the death of seven farmworkers that year.

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Health Education and Training Organizations Healthcare Systems and Hospitals Climate Change and Health Rural Health 109

National Council on Urban Indian Health

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This provision allows federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), rural health clinics, and Medicare to pay for mental health telehealth services, without any in-person requirements. Community Health Centers were funded at $4 billion per year from 2019 to 2023.

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NC Health News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

By Michelle Andrews One August afternoon in 2023, Angela Martins cousin called with alarming news. Martins 74-year-old aunt had been mauled by four dogs while out for a walk near her home in rural Purlear, North Carolina. She was bleeding heavily from bites on both legs and her right arm, where shed tried to protect her face and neck.

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Health Inequalities Rural Health 64

Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 10, 2025

Maternal unit closures that put women and their babies in rural areas at heightened risk of complications and death arent a new trend. who co-directs the University of Minnesotas Rural Health Research Center. A 2023 paper bolstered evidence of greater complication rates among women who give birth at low-volume rural hospitals.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

North Carolina recommends one nurse per school, but the reality is most schools share a nurse, with an average ratio of one nurse for every 833 students, according to the 2023 Healthy Schools report. Having nurses on site full-time also makes a difference, according to the National Association of School Nurses.

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Mental Health and Public Health Health Literacy Health Education Health Inequalities 115

NC Health News

MARCH 14, 2025

By Jaymie Baxley For the past 19 months, officials in rural Martin County have been working on an experimental plan to resurrect the communitys shuttered hospital. Martin General, the 43-bed facility that for seven decades served generations of residents in the Eastern North Carolina county, closed its doors in August 2023.

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Ageing and Health Health Services Research Rural Health 105

Association of Health Care Journalists

MARCH 11, 2025

For journalists covering rural health disparities, the Medicaid cliff and the promises (and pitfalls) of telehealth, these findings demand a closer look at who’s really benefiting from the telehealth boom, and why. lower in the third quarter of 2023 than in the second quarter of 2020. Telehealth use in the U.S.

Substance Use Disorders 92

Substance Use Disorders Ethnicity and Health Health Disparities Rural Health 92

HEALTHBEAT

MARCH 3, 2025

Since 2023, at least nine states have dropped this requirement for some doctors with international training, according to the Federation of State Medical Boards. More than a dozen other states are considering similar legislation. But its unclear whether that will happen, she said, because the programs are just getting started.

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Health Education and Training Organizations Rural Health Health Policy 58

Association of Health Care Journalists

MARCH 31, 2025

It extends telehealth services to federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics that may serve as distant site providers. That was allowed to lapse in 2023 with the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency and hasnt been brought back, Zebley said.

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Telemedicine and Virtual Healthcare Public Health Law and Policy Consulting Mental Health and Public Health Mental Health Services 83

NC Health News

APRIL 2, 2025

In 2023, Duke Energy had installed a microgrid of solar panels and lithium-ion batteries to restore power quickly in case of emergency. The initiative targets rural health centers across the southeastern U.S., But Hot Springs was more fortunate than most.

Rural Health 109

Rural Health Disaster and Emergency Management Community Health Centers Environmental Health and Safety 109

KFF Health News

JANUARY 24, 2025

The Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, with more than 1,330 members in 2023, is one of two tribes that participate in Nevada’s tribal sponsorship program and aggregated billing.

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Tribal Health Health Policy Rural Health 115

KFF Health News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In Gaines, exemptions were far higher than the national average, approaching 20% in 2023-24. Last school year, the number of kindergartners exempted from a vaccine requirement was higher than ever reported before, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Gaines has one of the lowest rates of childhood vaccination in Texas.

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Ageing and Health Health Policy Rural Health 110

NC Health News

MARCH 31, 2025

In December 2023, North Carolina became the 40th state to expand access to Medicaid by raising the income limit for eligibility. The question now: Will that advocacy make any difference? Expansion at risk While cuts to Medicaid would affect beneficiaries in every state, the stakes are particularly high in North Carolina.

Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights 86

Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights Public Health Law and Policy Consulting Reproductive Health Health Policy 86

NC Health News

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Jackson The lawsuit, originally filed in 2023 by predecessor Josh Stein, who is now the governor, accuses parent company HCA Healthcare of reneging on a promise to maintain oncology and emergency services. We are right back to cutting corners and making money off of understaffing, said Kerri Wilson, a Mission Health nurse.

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NC Health News

MARCH 21, 2025

Allocating $10 million in the first year of his two-year proposal to the North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities to strengthen the nursing workforce and increase the number of other nurses and other high-demand health professionals such as physician assistants and physical trainers.

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Rural Health Health Education Health Policy 98

KFF Health News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

That represents a loss of more than 80 million years of life, according to a 2023 JAMA study. Recent efforts to address health disparities have run headlong into racist policies still entrenched in health systems. During the past two decades there have been 1.63 The design of the U.S.

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Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention Socioeconomic Status and Health Academic and Research Institutions Ageing and Health 141

NC Health News

MARCH 19, 2025

CPP data analysis showed that smaller labor and delivery units those with less than six birthing rooms were more vulnerable to complete closure in North Carolina than larger ones between 2013 and 2023. Those rural hospitals just dont have access to the economies of scale that suburban or urban ones do.

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Maternal and Child Health Public Health Law and Regulation Public Health Law and Policy Consulting Mental Health and Public Health 99

NC Health News

MARCH 5, 2025

By Jaymie Baxley In December 2023, North Carolina became the 40th state to expand eligibility for Medicaid, opening up the government-funded health insurance program to low-income adults who previously made too much money to qualify.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

More than 590,300 people who were previously ineligible for Medicaid have joined the rolls since expansion took effect in December 2023, nearly surpassing the state’s projected enrollment for two years in just 12 months. “It’s Roy Cooper at ECU Health Medical Center in Greenville. billion in federal financial incentives.

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Substance Use Disorders Ageing and Health Health Policy Rural Health 145

NC Health News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

They also lamented the death of Juan Jos Ceballos , a 33-year-old migrant worker from Mexico who died in Wayne County in July 2023 after suffering what his co-workers described as a heat stroke on a day when the heat index topped 100 degrees. Jos Arturo Gnzalez Mendoza , a 30-year-old farmworker from Guanajuato, Mexico, died Sept.

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Occupational Health and Safety Environmental Health and Safety Tobacco Control and Public Health Advocacy Climate Change and Health 98

KFF Health News

APRIL 9, 2025

Broadband dead zones like Greene County persist despite decades of efforts by federal lawmakers that have created a patchwork of more than 133 funding programs across 15 agencies, according to a 2023 federal report. Alabama’s leaders, like others around the U.S.,

Healthcare Systems and Hospitals 114

Healthcare Systems and Hospitals Public Health Law and Policy Consulting Public Health Law and Regulation Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention 114

NC Health News

APRIL 1, 2025

That shows signs of becoming a trend, as cases of the respiratory illness also rose sharply between 2023 and 2024. About 107,500 people mostly unvaccinated or undervaccinated children younger than 5 died from measles in 2023, WHO said. In 2023, 83 percent of children worldwide had received a first dose of the measles vaccine.

Nutrition and Public Health 113

Nutrition and Public Health Ageing and Health Reproductive Health Rural Health 113