Archive for the ‘Reports and Studies’ Category
Office of Rural Health Community Grants, Part VI: Safety and Injury Prevention
My final visit with one of the Office’s Community Grant recipients last month was in Adams County. I met with the Injury Prevention and Trauma Coalition at Moundview Memorial Hospital in Friendship to talk with them about their Adams County Injury Prevention and Trauma Care Initiative, for which they received a planning grant. The Hospital, [...]
November 21, 2010
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Tags: Children's Health, EMS, Grant Opportunities & Assistance, Office of Rural Health, Rural Health & Safety · Posted in: Conferences and Webinars, Grant Advice, Program Updates, Reports and Studies
Office of Rural Health Community Grants, Part V: Driver Safety
Last month I met with the Juneau County Coalition for At-Risk Drivers at Mile Bluff Medical Center in Mauston. The Coalition is another recipient of our rural community grants. Their Safer Driver Initiative will plan and pilot a driver-screening program to assist the elderly and others with medical conditions that could lead to unsafe driving [...]
November 16, 2010
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Tags: Community Development, Economic Development, EMS, Grant Opportunities & Assistance, Office of Rural Health, Reports and Studies, Rural Health & Safety, Senior Health · Posted in: Grant Advice, Program Updates, Reports and Studies
Office of Rural Health Community Grants, Part III: Access to Health Care
The Office awarded another of our community grants to the Polk County Free Clinic coalition to plan for a clinic serving the chronically ill in the County. The Polk County Health Department, ABC for Rural Health, the Salvation Army and three hospitals in Amery, Osceola and St. Croix Falls will work on the Chronic Care [...]
November 1, 2010
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Tags: Children's Health, Insurance, Loan Repayment, Office of Rural Health, Recruitment, Reports and Studies, Workforce · Posted in: Grant Advice, Program Updates, Provider Loan Repayment, Reports and Studies
Office of Rural Health Grants-Falls Prevention
The Office of Rural Health sponsored the Rural Community Grant Program for the last several years with funding from the federal Office of Rural Health Policy. I’ve managed this program for several years, awarding a few dozen grants totaling over $600,000 to community coalitions around Wisconsin. Each fall I make a point to visit the [...]
October 27, 2010
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Tags: Caregivers, EMS, Grant Opportunities & Assistance, Minority Health, Office of Rural Health, Reports and Studies, Senior Health · Posted in: Grant Advice, Program Updates, Reports and Studies
Health Care Reform, Six Months On
Thursday is the six-month anniversary of Congress passing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as health reform, and we’re beginning to see many of its impacts. As you can guess from the title of this blog, I post about rural matters. I’ll be occasionally posting about ACA and how specifically it’s [...]
September 21, 2010
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Tags: Insurance, Public Health, Wellness · Posted in: Reports and Studies
Building Community
Collaboration, especially in rural communities with limited resources, is a vital component of community development. No one can do it on their own. This report from last fall describes that importance and has a great example of a successful collaboration to develop a rural health network. We believe that economic/community development and health care are [...]
June 17, 2010
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Tags: Community Development, Grant Opportunities & Assistance, Reports and Studies, Rural Hospitals & Clinics · Posted in: Grant Advice, Reports and Studies
Dental Care
I’ve been pretty busy the last couple weeks and haven’t really had the time to post. I’ve got a lot of catching up to do. I haven’t written about oral health in a while and there are several funding opportunities you should know about. A few months ago the Pew Center on the States released [...]
June 4, 2010
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Tags: Children's Health, Grant Opportunities & Assistance, Oral Health, Reports and Studies · Posted in: Grant Advice, Reports and Studies
Fighting Obesity With Physical Activity Programs
May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month  and it’s an excellent opportunity to promote physical activity in your community. As anyone interested in health issues (or anyone, period) knows, obesity is an increasing problem and tends to be even more of a problem in rural areas. The opportunities for physical activity are generally more [...]
May 7, 2010
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Tags: Children's Health, Community Development, Grant Opportunities & Assistance, Public Health, Reports and Studies, Wellness · Posted in: Grant Advice, Reports and Studies
