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Event: LTSS Webinar: Aging with Pets - Benefits, Challenges, and Opportunities

Rural Health Information Hub

The research behind the creation of this program will be presented, along with the challenges and successes of planning and implementation.

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Hospital Systems: A Framework for Maximizing Social Benefit

The Health Care Blog

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. Its ability to improve population health in their communities, especially by attacking and ameliorating social determinants of health.

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Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress

KFF Health News

In email exchanges with the Biden administration, spokespeople insisted that it is making progress in closing the racial health gap. They said officials have taken steps to address food insecurity, housing instability, pollution, and other social determinants of health that help fuel disparities.

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Successful rural county health program could go statewide—if politics don’t get in the way

NC Health News

By Jaymie Baxley In 2022, North Carolina launched an experimental initiative to address the nonmedical health needs of low-income residents by using Medicaid dollars. This first-in-the-nation effort, known as the Healthy Opportunities Pilot, has provided assistance to nearly 30,000 people across three largely rural regions of the state.