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Rural Living RSS FeedsThe Rural Implications of Geographic Rating of Health Insurance Premiums - Examines how and to what extent states allow health plans to vary premiums by geographic rating area. Discusses strategies that federal and state policymakers might use to help ensure that premium variations based on geography are justified. -- State Health Access Reform Evaluation...Feed Source: www.shadac.org Farm Activities Associated With Rural Development Initiatives - Describes farm and farmer characteristics that may influence farm operator involvement in development activities, specifically by focusing on five farm activities: organic farming,value-added agriculture, direct marketing, agritourism, and energy/electricity production. -- USDA Economic Research Service... The Effects of State EITC Expansion on Childrens Health - Examines the impact of state-level adoption of Earned Income Tax Credits (EITCs) on a set of health-related outcomes for children including health insurance coverage, the use of preventive medical and dental care, and health status measures. -- Carsey Institute... Maternal and Child Health of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders - Describes indicators of maternal and child health,including prenatal care, low birth weight, and infant mortality, within AA and NHPI (Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander) populations in the United States and Pacific Islands. -- Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum... Guide to Privacy and Security of Health Information - Contains information on privacy and security in health information technology and meaningful use of electronic health records. -- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services... Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation - Evaluates obesity prevention strategies and identifies recommendations for community based programs. -- Institute of Medicine... 5 Key Questions About Medicaid And Its Role in State/Federal Budgets and Health Reform - Highlights key issues about Medicaid, including the structure, financing and purpose of the program, its role for low-income beneficiaries, its share of the federal budget and state budgets, and the significant implications of the coverage expansion under the Affordable Care Act. Mentions rural throughout. -- Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured... Promoting a Culture of Safety: Use of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture in Critical Access Hospitals - Discusses the use of patient safety culture surveys as a means to promote organizational learning and build a culture of safety. -- Flex Monitoring Team... Low-Income & Rural Beneficiaries with Medigap Coverage, 2010 - Data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) show that Medicare Advantage plans, Medicares private comprehensive health plans, continue to be a vital source of coverage for low-income and minority beneficiaries in 2010. -- AHIP Center for Policy and Research... Opportunities and Challenges: Implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the U.S. Pacific Territories - Describes provisions in the Affordable Care Act that will benefit Americans living in the U.S. Territories by increasing access, ensuring quality and advancing prevention and public health. -- Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum... Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health Disparities - Provides an overview of NHPA (Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander) health in the United States. Where possible, this health brief also includes data on the health status of NHPAs living in the USAPI (U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands.) -- Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum... An Evaluation of Strategies and Finances of the Rural Tourism Industry - Discusses the rural tourism industry and how tax dollars are spent to promote tourism in Pennsylvania. -- Center for Rural Pennsylvania... Community Health Workers: Expanding the Scope of the Health Care Delivery System - Examines how community health workers (CHWs) can connect underserved populations with health and human service providers. -- National Conference of State Legislatures... Hospital Readiness for Population-Based Accountable Care - Provides hospital leaders with a snapshot of hospitals' current readiness to participate in an Accountable Care Organization (ACO), as well as a tool with which to gauge their own organizations' relative preparedness for ACO participation. Includes rural throughout report. -- Health Research & Educational Trust... New Hampshire Demographic Trends in the Twenty-First Century - Summarizes current population redistribution trends in New Hampshire and shows how fertility, mortality, and migration contributed to these trends. -- Carsey Institute... Mental Health Outreach: Guidelines and Resources for Community Health Workers - A guide for training community health workers providing mental health outreach in communities recovering from a disaster or facing capacity shortages for mental health services. -- American Red Cross... Fall Incidents and Native American Elderly - Presents the results of Identifying Our Needs: A Survey of Elders that was conducted between 2008 and 2011, by tribal members for over 300 American Indian tribes, Alaskan villages, and Hawaiian homesteads throughout Indian Country. -- National Resource Center on Native American Aging... Collaboration and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) - Provides non-FQHC health care providers with a better understanding of what is motivating FQHCs to expand the number of service sites and provide non-FQHC reimbursed services, such as laboratory and other diagnostic services. -- Stroudwater Associates... Rural Relevance Under Healthcare Reform: A Performance-Based Assessment of Rural Health Care in America - Highlights the rural healthcare delivery systems using the latest Medicare shared Savings data files, the first nationwide hospital rating system to evaluate rural hospitals, and the industrys largest proprietary rural Emergency Department database. -- National Rural Health Association... The Use of Hospitalists in Small Rural Hospitals - Describes the results of a survey of small rural hospitals that use hospitalists, who are physicians, physician assistants or nurse practitioners who assume responsibility for patient care during inpatient hospital stays. -- Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center... Profiles on Illinois Critical Access Hospitals - Presents profiles on four CAHs in Illinois, including Ferrell Hospital in Eldorado, Kewanee Hospital in Kewanee, Memorial Hospital in Carthage, and Midwest Medical Center in Galena. -- Illinois Hospital Association... The Affordable Care Act: Real Help for Real Rural People - Outlines how many rural residents and families have used or benefited from Affordable Care Act provisions. -- Center for Rural Affairs... The Adoption of the AHRQ Common Formats to Enhance the Benefits of Working with a PSO - A Providers Perspective - Explores how providers can remove barriers that may have previously derailed and limited the ability to influence quality and safety efforts through working with a PSO and adopting common nomenclature for the reporting of medical errors. -- ... Community Paramedicine Evaluation Tool - Provides a framework by which data can be collected from multiple community paramedicine programs to develop common successes and challenges. Designed to address rural settings. -- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services... Housing an Aging Population: Are We Prepared? - Explores the effects of the growing population of older adults on the demand for housing, the challenge of providing meaningful housing choices for older adults of all incomes, and the policies that could help communities respond to the dual challenges of providing older adults with affordable housing and adequate services. -- National Housing Conference - Center for Housing Policy... Mapping Food Insecurity and Food Sources in New Hampshire Cities and Towns - Presents a geographic picture of the towns and cities in New Hampshire at risk for food insecurity. -- Carsey Institute... 2012 National ADAP Monitoring Project: Annual Report - Starting in 2012, the annual report is in three modules. Module One presents year in review. Module Two includes updated enrollment and utilization data and detailed information on ADAP coordination with Medicare Part D. Module Three highlights hepatitis treatments covered by AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs). -- National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors... Race and Ethnicity in Rural America - Presents data and findings about race and ethnicity in rural areas and small towns from the 2010 Census and American Community Survey (ACS). -- Housing Assistance Council... National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2011 - Summarizes health care quality and access among various racial, ethnic, and income groups and other priority populations, such as residents of rural areas and people with disabilities. -- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality... National Healthcare Quality Report, 2011 - An overview of the quality of health care in the United States. Measures trends in effectiveness of care, patient safety, timeliness of care, patient quality, and efficiency of care. -- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality... Webinar on "Screening for Developmental and Psychosocial Risks in Rural Family Medicine Practice: Implementation of Best Practices" - The University of Washington Maternal and Child Public Health Leadership Training Program invites you to join a Webinar on "Screening for Developmental and Psychosocial Risks in Rural Family Medicine Practice: Implementation of Best Practices" on Tuesday, May 29th, 2012.... HUD Makes Available $85 Million to Fund Housing for Extremely Low-Income Persons with Disabilities - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has made $85 million available to state housing agencies to provide affordable supportive housing for extremely low-income persons with disabilities.... Country is Separating by Education - Daily Yonder article discusses how when it comes to education, the rich are getting richer, as people with college degrees flock to a small number of U.S. counties, a demographic divide with serious economic consequences.... Obama Administration Presents National Plan to Fight Alzheimers Disease - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius yesterday released an ambitious national plan to fight Alzheimers disease that outlines research funding, tools for health care providers, an awareness campaign and a new website.... HHS Launches New Web-Based Tool to Track Performance of Nations Health Care System - Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius yesterday announced the launch of a new web-based tool that will make it easier for all Americans to monitor and measure how the nations health care system is performing.... Medicare and Medicaid Program; Regulatory Provisions to Promote Program Efficiency, Transparency, and Burden Reduction; Final Rule - This final rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) identifies reforms in Medicare and Medicaid regulations that CMS has identified as unnecessary, obsolete, or excessively burdensome on health care providers and beneficiaries. This rule increases the ability of health care professionals to devote resources to improving patient care, by eliminating or reducing requirements that impede quality patient care or that divert provid... Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Reform of Hospital and Critical Access Hospital Conditions of Participation; Final Rule - This final rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services revises the requirements that hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) must meet to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.... Nationwide 2K Event Will Support Homeless Veterans and Promote Employee Wellness - The Department of Veterans Affairs is once again hosting a nationwide 2K Walk and Roll event at more than 130 VA facilities on May 16 to coincide with National Employee Health and Fitness Day.... 4 in 10 Healthcare Organizations Seek Locum Tenens - HealthLeaders Media article reports that three in four healthcare organizations had to find temporary physicians at some point in the last 12 months because they couldn't find permanent physicians, survey data shows.... Nationwide Health Information Network: Conditions for Trusted Exchange; Comment Request - The Department of Health and Human Services will accept comments through June 14, 2012, on draft proposals for a governance mechanism for the nationwide health information network.... Peoples Department: USDA at 150 - Times and Democrat, (SC) article gives U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack remarks on the history and accomplishments of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on its 150th birthday.... Endangered Rural Post Offices Get a Reprieve - MSNBC article reports that the financially struggling U.S. Postal Service sought Wednesday to tamp down concern over wide-scale cuts, revealing it will seek to keep thousands of rural post offices open with shorter hours.... Vets Attracted to Rural Counties, Smaller Cities - Daily Yonder article reports that military veterans disproportionately live in rural and exurban communities, and vets who live in cities are much more likely to live in smaller urban areas, according to the latest data from the U.S. Census.... Nurse Practitioners Provide Solution to Shortage of Primary Health Care Providers - PRNewswire article reports that the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners today announced a national campaign to increase public awareness of the critical role nurse practitioners play in the American health care system.... White House Rural Council: Rural Stakeholders Meeting - The White House Rural Council reports that on Tuesday, May 1st, along with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, they hosted a group of 24 rural health care providers and experts to discuss issues around access to care and improving health outcomes in rural communities.... National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services; Notice of Meeting - The Health Resources and Services Administration announces that the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health will convene its seventy - first meeting on June 18-20, 2012, in Kansas City, Missouri. The meeting will be open to the public.... Frontier Extended Stay Clinic Pilot Program Receives Positive Reviews - NRHA Rural Health Voices blog reports that the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) released a study today outlining the positive accomplishments of the Frontier Extended Stay Clinic (FESC) Pilot Program.... CMS Releases Final CoP, Regulatory Burden Reduction Rules - AHA News Now article reports that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday released a final regulation to revise the existing Conditions of Participation for hospitals and critical access hospitals, as well as a final rule that addresses more than two dozen regulatory requirements for a broader range of providers, including hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, end-stage renal disease facilities and durable medical equipment suppl... HRSA Webinar Announcement: Using Health IT for Care Coordination - The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will be holding a webinar on May 18, 2012, that focuses on using health information technology (IT) to help coordinate care among outpatient and inpatient safety net providers.... House Approves $310B in Cuts; Medicaid And Children's Health Care Targeted - Kaiser Health News brings together a variety of articles discussing how the House approved sweeping legislation on Thursday to cut $310 billion from the deficit over the next decade much of it from programs for the poor and shift some of that savings to the Pentagon to stave off automatic military spending cuts scheduled for next year.... Registration is Now Open for the NHSC Scholar Orientation and Placement Conference - Registration is now open for sites interested in attending the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) 2012 Scholar Orientation and Placement Conference, July 19-21 in Grapevine, TX.... Dubious Medicare Billings Paid to 2,600 Pharmacies in 2009, Inspector General Finds - CBS News article reports that Medicare paid $5.6 billion to 2,600 pharmacies with questionable billings, including a Kansas drugstore that submitted more than 1,000 prescriptions each for two patients in just one year, government investigators have found.... USDA Seeks Grant Applications to Improve Rural Housing - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced yesterday that applications for grants are being accepted to provide assistance to low- and very-low-income rural residents to install or improve plumbing, provide access to individuals with disabilities, and weatherize and repair their homes.... HHS Announces Available Funding for Construction, Renovation of School-Based Health Centers - Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced the availability of funding for the construction and renovation of school-based health centers.... Health Care Law Increases Payments to Doctors for Primary Care - Primary care physicians serving Medicaid patients would see their Medicaid payments rise under a proposed rule announced yesterday by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.... HHS Finalizes New Rules to Cut Regulations for Hospitals and Health Care Providers, Saving More Than $5 Billion - Yesterday, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced significant steps to reduce unnecessary, obsolete, or burdensome regulations on American hospitals and health care providers, steps that will help achieve the key goal of President Obamas regulatory reform initiative to reduce unnecessary burdens on business and save nearly $1.1 billion across the health care system in the first year and more than $5 billion over fiv... Rural Post Offices Won't Close, but Hours Will be Cut - CNN Money article reports that the U.S. Postal Service is backing off a previous plan to close thousands of post offices, and will instead cut hours at 13,000 rural facilities in an effort to save $500 million a year.... Bill Would Extend Medicare Rural Hospital Provisions - AHA News Now article reports that Sens. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Charles Grassley (R-IA) yesterday introduced the Rural Hospital Access Act, legislation that would reauthorize the Medicare-Dependent Hospital program and extend the enhanced low-volume Medicare adjustment for prospective payment system hospitals for one year (through September 2013).... The First Ladys Lets Move! Child Care Initiative Recognizes Exceptional Efforts to Promote Healthy Lifestyles - Administration for Children and Families article reports that today the First Ladys Lets Move! Child Care initiative will recognize states, communities, early childhood programs and networks for exceptional work promoting and implementing the goals of the nationwide call-to-action.... Notice of Funds Availability for the Section 533 Rural Housing Preservation Grants for Fiscal Year 2012 - The Rural Housing Service announces that it is soliciting applications under the Housing Preservation Grant program with funding to assist very low- and low-income homeowners in repairing and rehabilitating their homes in rural areas.... Copyright © 2012, Residual Income Home Business Opportunity. All Rights Reserved. |
