- Biden-Harris Administration Takes Historic Action to Increase Access to Quality Care, and Support to Families and Care Workers
- Biden Administration Sets Higher Staffing Mandates. Most Nursing Homes Don't Meet Them.
- Rural Jails Turn to Community Health Workers To Help the Newly Released Succeed
- Rural Communities Face Primary Care Physician Shortage
- Miles for Milk: How Student-Run Grocery Store Reshaped Rural Community's Food Access
- Native Americans Have Shorter Life Spans, and It's Not Just Due to Lack of Health Care
- Across the Country, Amish Populations Are on the Rise
- Using Medicaid to Address Young People's Mental Health Needs in School Settings
- Promotoras Play Essential Role in Connecting Farmworkers with Health Care in Rural NorCal
- Sunsets, Wildlife and Limited Care: Challenges of Aging in Place in Rural America
- City-Country Mortality Gap Widens amid Persistent Holes in Rural Health Care Access
- Tribal Environmental Impact Network
- Minnesota's Rural Ambulance Providers Look to State Capitol for Their Own Lifeline
- Biden-Harris Administration Takes Action to Support the Primary Care Workforce
- Over 3,000 Homes on the Navajo Nation Receive Accurate Addresses for the First Time
National Rural EMS & Care Conference
The National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH), the National Association of State EMS Officials, the Joint Committee on Rural Emergency Care, The State of Ohio EMS, and the Ohio Office of Health Policy and Performance Improvement invite you to join them on April 22-23, 2020, in Columbus, Ohio, for the 6th Annual National Rural EMS & Care Conference!
The National Rural EMS & Care Conference brings in participants from across the country. Invited attendees include rural EMS directors, medical directors and officers, rural healthcare providers, state EMS officials, state rural health officials, hospital administrators, federal agency officials, and other EMS partners.
Click here to view the Draft Agenda
Conference Hotel
Renaissance Columbus Downtown Hotel
50 North Third Street
Columbus, OH
To book a room, please call 877-901-6632, press 3, then press 2. The code to reference is “NOSORH EMS Meeting” to get the $143.23 per room/per night rate. This includes taxes and fees. You may also book online by clicking here.
The hotel reservation deadline is March 30, 2020.
EMS Grant Writing 101 Workshop
Prior to the conference, join NOSORH for a half-day EMS Grant Writing 101 Workshop on Tuesday, April 21, from 1:00-5:00 pm! Rural EMS agencies and other interested partners will learn how to write and submit a complete grant proposal, understand rural relevant data important to EMS, and identify funding opportunities.
Click here to register for the Conference and the Grant Writing 101 Workshop. The deadline to register is March 30, 2020, by 5:00 pm ET.
For more information, please visit the EMS Conference Website.
Comments Requested: Coordinating Out-of-State Care for Chronically Ill Children – March 23
CMS requests input from rural and urban advocates, caregivers, providers, and States on best practices for using out-of-state providers to care for Medicaid-eligible children with medically complex conditions. Input may address how to coordinate care when providers are out-of-state; how to reduce barriers from receiving out-of-state care in a timely fashion; and best practices for screening and enrolling out-of-state providers in Medicaid. For more information, click here.
Strategic Choice in Developing Telemedicine – Observations from Three Organizations
This project from the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis included a non-exhaustive review of recent literature and interviews with three large health systems to explore their organizations’ strategies, and their approach, for engaging in telemedicine to support rural healthcare. For more information, click here.
HHS Report on Substance Use Disorder and Child Welfare in Rural Areas
According to a new report from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, parental drug use was a factor in 36 percent of cases where a child was removed from the home. The brief examines the challenges specific to rural areas and recommends strategies to increase workforce capacity, improve access to services, and coordinate efforts of child welfare agencies and treatment providers. To read the report, click here.
Surgeon General Releases First Report Focused on Smoking Cessation in 30 Years
Three decades after the first Surgeon General’s report on smoking cessation, on January 23, 2020, the Surgeon General released a new report that reviews and updates evidence on the importance of quitting smoking. The report finds that more than two-thirds of U.S. adult cigarette smokers report interest in quitting cigarette smoking; and the majority of adult cigarette smokers in the United States have tried to quit during the past year.
In addition to discussing the immediate and long-term health and economic benefits of smoking cessation at the individual and societal levels, this report presents updated findings on nicotine addiction and genetic factors that may impact smoking behaviors. Finally, the report discusses the wide variety of clinical and population-based interventions that have been scientifically shown to effectively increase smoking cessation.
“We know more about the science of quitting than ever before. As a nation, we can and must do more to ensure that evidence-based cessation treatments are reaching the people that need them,” said Surgeon General Vice Adm. Jerome M. Adams. “Today, I’m calling on healthcare professionals, health systems, employers, insurers, public health professionals, and policy makers to take action to put an end to the staggering—and completely preventable—human and financial tolls that smoking takes on our country.”
“The steady decline in the number of Americans who smoke cigarettes is one of the great public health victories of recent decades, and this success has continued under President Trump,” said HHS Secretary Alex Azar. “Americans who quit cigarettes can add as much as a decade to their life expectancy.
Unfortunately, millions of Americans still smoke cigarettes. But the good news is that, as the Surgeon General’s report shows, we know more than ever before about effective ways to help Americans quit. Working together, we can make tobacco-related disease and death a thing of the past.”
Though cigarette smoking among American adults is at an all-time low (14%), it remains the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States. Approximately 34 million American adults currently smoke cigarettes.
For more information on the Surgeon General’s Report: