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JANUARY 21, 2025

National Tribal Health Conference 2025 September 7-12, 2025 | Chandler, AZ. Registration Expected to Open March 2025 Event overview National Tribal Health Conference 2025 […] Culture Is Medicine; Community Is Healing.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

Staff serving indigenous and rural communities are invited to participate in a three-day gathering April 28th through May 1st, 2024 in Seattle, WA (both in-person and virtual options for joining are available)… [.]Read from emRIC 2025

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

Notice from the Indian Health Service (IHS) announcing the calendar year 2025 reimbursement rates for inpatient and outpatient medical care provided by IHS facilities to Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal program beneficiaries. The updated rates apply to all qualifying services provided on or after January 1, 2025.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Washington DC March 4, 2025 -- National Indian Health Board

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Washington DC March 4, 2025 -- National Indian Health Board

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Washington DC March 4, 2025 -- National Indian Health Board

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JANUARY 8, 2025

Nashville TN July 7, 2025

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The Indigenous Faculty Forum is open to Indigenous junior faculty with academic medical appointments who are interested in joining a longitudinal learning community.

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JANUARY 24, 2025

Public Health Faculty Scholars Fred Ssewamala and Proscovia Nabunya , both faculty at WashU’s Brown School, have been named 2025 Fellows of the Society for Social Work and Research. Mary McKay , executive vice provost, SMART Africa principal investigator, andformer dean of the Brown School, was also named a 2025 Fellow.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

This correcting amendment is effective January 8, 2025, and is applicable beginning January 1, 2025. Notice from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) making technical and typographic corrections to the November 27, 2024, final rule.

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DECEMBER 23, 2024

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JANUARY 22, 2025

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Atlanta GA February 26, 2025 -- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Pre-publication notice of final rule with comment period from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revising the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Medicare Ambulatory Surgical Center (ACS) payment system for calendar year 2025. The provisions of this rule are effective January 1, 2025.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Notice of final rule with comment period from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revising the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Medicare Ambulatory Surgical Center (ACS) payment system for calendar year 2025. The provisions of this rule are effective January 1, 2025.

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JANUARY 15, 2025

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) correcting the January 8, 2025, notice requesting nominations of candidates to serve as primary and alternate delegates for the Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity Tribal Advisory Committee (CIIHE TAC).

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JANUARY 8, 2025

This correcting amendment is effective January 8, 2025, and is applicable beginning January 1, 2025. Pre-publication notice from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) making technical and typographic corrections to the November 27, 2024, final rule.

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DECEMBER 11, 2024

Notice from the Indian Health Service (IHS) proposing to expand the geographic boundaries of the Purchased/Referred Care Delivery Area (PRCDA) for the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska to include Jackson County, Kansas, and Holt County, Missouri. Comments are due by January 10, 2025.

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

Notice from the Indian Health Service (IHS) seeking comments on the proposed extension of forms related to the IHS Loan Repayment Program (LRP). Comments are due by February 25, 2025. Information collected will be used to score applications and determine which applicants will be awarded each fiscal year.

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DECEMBER 23, 2024

The Indian Health Service (IHS) seeking comments on the extension of an information collection titled "Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery." Comments are due by February 21, 2025.

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DECEMBER 11, 2024

Notice from the Indian Health Service (IHS) proposing to expand the geographic boundaries of the Purchased/Referred Care Delivery Area (PRCDA) for the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska to include the counties of Doniphan and Jackson in Kansas and Holt County, Missouri. Comments are due by January 10, 2025.

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DECEMBER 23, 2024

Comments are due by March 24, 2025. Section 758 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, provided $2 million for pilot projects that will permit Tribes and/or Tribal organizations to administer Child Nutrition Programs, assuming the roles and responsibilities typically held by State agencies.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will hold a virtual public meeting of the Advisory Committee on Tribal and Indian Affairs from February 25-26, 2025.

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NC Health News

APRIL 11, 2025

In North Carolina, Health-e-Schools began providing telehealth services to schools in the western part of the state in 2011. The program, an initiative of the Center for Rural Health Innovation , started with a handful of schools in two districts. KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST RFK Jr.s

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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.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 13, 2025

follow our coverage of ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH UNC Charlotte chemist develops purification system that removes PFAS by Coastal Review Online January 4, 2025 December 23, 2024 What’s coming for 2025? NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year.

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JANUARY 20, 2025

16, 24 percent of people 50 and older said theyre considering a job change in 2025 a 10 percent increase from last year. Older job seekers who are rehired tend to end up earning lower wages than they did before losing their job, according to the commerce department, even if they typically return to the same industry sector.

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NC Health News

APRIL 14, 2025

Admissions of overdose patients to the ER at Wilson Medical Center fell 36 percent from 2022 to 2025, according to DHHS data. Multi-county effort The grant used to buy and stock the kiosks came from the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program , a multi-year initiative managed by the U.S.

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National Council on Urban Indian Health

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Continuing Resolution Signed into Law, Averting a Government Shutdown The House and Senate passed a Continuing Resolution (CR) to extend government funding set to expire on December 20, 2024, until March 14, 2025, which was signed into law by President Biden on December 21. A more detailed analysis of the Continuing Resolution is below.

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

Hospitality House and the other Continuums of Care will conduct the point-in-time count for 2025 in late January. Members of the organizations leadership said a change in methodology contributed to the higher tally.

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MARCH 14, 2025

The Medicaid uncertainty at the federal level is a concern across rural communities because of the impact on rural health care, Carter said. But I think that were fortunate that we continue to have interest despite that.

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NC Health News

MARCH 9, 2025

Elder abuse encompasses physical, emotional/psychological, sexual, and financial abuse, as well as neglect and self-neglect, a 2024 study by the University of Minnesotas Rural Health Research Center (RHRC) stated.

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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. Such an effort is expected to launch in mid-2025, the commission said.

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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. an AHCJ webinar from March 2025. Telehealth Policy Update: What the March 2025 Continuing Resolution Means for Clinicians Telehealth.org.

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NC Health News

APRIL 2, 2025

The initiative targets rural health centers across the southeastern U.S., a region that experienced 474 weather-related power outages in 2022 more than any other part of the country, according to the National Association of Community Health Centers.

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Black Health Matters

JANUARY 7, 2025

Thanks to an executive order from President Joe Biden, there will be a national day of mourning on January 9, 2025, to honor Carter’s legacy. ” People deserve access to the health care they need, whether they live in a large city or a small town. He supported the Rural Health Initiative in 1975.

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MARCH 31, 2025

The governors comments came near the end of the 2025 Rural Summit, a two-day conference focused on issues that affect rural communities. Stein said rural areas, which are home to a disproportionately large share of the states Medicaid enrollees, are likely to bear the brunt of the proposed cuts.

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