Exploring Rural Health

Today’s podcast features an interview with Carter Florence, DrPH, MPH, Vice President of Programs with Meals on Wheels America, and Shon Gress, CEO and Executive Director of Meals on Wheels Guernsey County. They tell us about the many benefits of the program, the impact of braided funding, and how rural stakeholders can get involved. The transcript and a list of resources and organizations mention...

Today’s podcast features an interview with Carrie Henning-Smith, PhD, about social isolation’s impact of rural communities. We discuss some of its causes and potential solutions. The transcript and a list of resources and organizations mentioned in the episode can be found at https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/podcast/social-isolation-jul-2023 Exploring Rural Health is an RHIhub podcast.

Today’s podcast features an interview with Timothy Callaghan, PhD, an associate professor in the Boston University School of Public Health, and Morgan Kassabian, who contributed to the Rural Healthy People 2030 project while working with the Southwest Rural Health Research center. They detail some of their findings after completing their research for the Rural Healthy People 2030 initiative. The t...

Today’s podcast features Janice Walters, Chief Operating Officer of the Rural Health Redesign Center, home of the Rural Emergency Hospital Technical Assistance Center. Walters explains how Medicare’s new Rural Emergency Hospital designation works, and how it can benefit some rural hospitals. The transcript and a list of resources and organizations mentioned in the episode can be found at https://w...

Today’s podcast features Kathy Wibberly, Director of the Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center. Wibberly explains the many ways in which rural access to telehealth has changed under the PHE, as well as the changes that will occur after the PHE ends. The transcript and a list of resources and organizations mentioned in the episode can be found at https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/podcast/telehealth...

Today’s podcast features Holly Andrilla, Deputy Director of the WWAMI Rural Health Research Center. Andrilla provides us with an overview of several data briefs she recently published detailing rural availability of psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, social workers, and counselors, as well as recent developments in access to medication for opioid use disorder. The trans...

Today’s podcast features Abigail Barker, Research Assistant Professor, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis; co-Investigator, Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis and Timothy McBride, Bernard Becker Professor, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis; co-Investigator, Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) Center for Rural Health Poli...

Today, Jennifer Conner, DrPH, an associate professor with the Delta Population Health Institute at the NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University, and Jason Lofton, MD, a family physician in De Queen, Arkansas at the Lofton Family Clinic, discuss rural obesity and how rural patients can live their healthiest life. The transcript and a list of resources and organizations ment...

Today, Julie Wood, MD, senior vice president of research, science and health of the public and Zita Magloire, MD, a practicing family physician in Cairo, Georgia, discuss the role of family physicians in rural maternal health. The transcript and a list of resources and organizations mentioned in the episode can be found at https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/podcast/family-physician-maternal-oct-2022...

Today, Anne Banfield, MD, physician administrative and clinical director at Women's Health at Leonardtown in Maryland, and member of the foundation board of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, discusses the rural OBGYN workforce and the challenges of providing maternal care in rural areas. The transcript and a list of resources and organizations mentioned in the episode can be...

Today, Karla Weng , Senior Program Manager for Stratis Health , and Pat Justis , Director of the Washington State Office of Rural Health , share their work on an initiative to expand access to palliative care in rural communities in Washington State, North Dakota, and Wisconsin. The transcript and a list of resources and organizations mentioned in the episode can be found at www.ruralhealthinfo.or...

Today, we discuss the development of the New Hampshire Mobility Management Network with Alisa Druzba, director of New Hampshire Office of Rural Health and Primary Care , and Steve Workman, director of Transport New Hampshire . For a transcript of this episode, along with a list of the resources we discussed, visit RHIhub: https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/podcast/public-transportation-apr-2022 “Expl...

Today, we talk rural transportation with Carol Wright Kenderdine, the director of Easter Seals Transportation Group , and co-director of the National Aging and Disability Transportation Center . For a transcript of this episode and a list of resources mentioned in this episode, visit RHIhub: https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/podcast/public-transportation-mar-2022 “Exploring Rural Health” is an RHIhu...

A conversation with Jan Probst, PhD, Director Emerita at the Rural and Minority Health Research Center, who shares insights on the rural nursing workforce, informed by her work on Rural Nursing Workforce: Current Educational Characteristics and Options for Improvement, www.ruralhealthresearch.org/projects/100002393 . She shares findings from that study, as well as recent developments impacting the...

"Exploring Rural Health" is a podcast from the Rural Health Information hub. In each episode, we’ll provide you with engaging and useful information about current issues facing rural healthcare, and talk to the people who are coming up with solutions. We’ll learn about various aspects of rural healthcare, from quality and access to programs and services. Join us each month, as we discuss new resea...