Fewer Sleep Apnea Referrals for Rural Patients
Geographic location is an independent factor in whether high-risk patients receive evaluations for obstructive sleep apnea in primary care settings.
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Fewer Sleep Apnea Referrals for Rural Patients
Geographic location is an independent factor in whether high-risk patients receive evaluations for obstructive sleep apnea in primary care settings.
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CMS Awards $50 Billion to States for Rural Health
The federal government’s Rural Health Transformation Program will issue the first of its $50 billion in grants to all 50 US states to aid rural healthcare initiatives.
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Rural Health Disparities Overlooked in COPD research
COPD research overlooks rural health disparities and must redefine the term “rural” to include factors like geographic isolation, limited broadband access, and more.
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CMS Launches $50B Rural Health Transformation Program
States can apply before November 5, 2025 to receive funding through the Rural Health Transformation Program to address specific rural health challenges.
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Rural ERs Increasingly Run Without Doctors
Emergency medicine researchers and providers believe ERs, especially in rural areas, increasingly operate with few or no physicians amid a nationwide shortage of doctors.
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Higher Ventilator Mortality in Rural Intermediate Care Units
Patients receiving ventilator life support in rural hospital intermediate care units had significantly higher death rates than patients in the same type of unit at urban hospitals.
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Cancer Surgeon Confirmed as New NIH Director
Monica M. Bertagnolli, MD, was installed as the 17th director of the National Institutes of Health, becoming the first surgeon and the second woman to hold the position.
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Improving Community Hospital Access to ECMO
Northwestern Medicine created a mobile ECMO unit called the Regional Lung Rescue Program to provide community hospitals access to ECMO therapy.
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Rural COPD Patients Face Higher Death Rates
Rural COPD patients face higher death rates; the first step to helping these patients is understanding why these disparities exist.
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Respiratory Profile: CSW Medical Corp’s RTs Are Among the Best
RT departments at Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute and Central State Hospital are managed and staffed by CSW Medical Corp, which fills the need for high-quality healthcare in rural areas.
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Low-income Patients Make 56% of Rural Emergency Department Visits
Low-income adults ages 18 to 64 accounted for 56% of the 8 million visits made to rural hospital emergency departments in 2008.
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Respiratory Profile: Jackson-Madison County General Hospital
A progressive staff brings excellence to Jackson-Madison County General Hospital—a small-town, rural hospital in Tennessee.
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