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  • Maternity Care in Rural Areas Is in Crisis. Can More Doulas Help?

    July 29, 2024 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Albany, Georgia

    Morehouse School of Medicine is training local women to become doulas through its Perinatal Patient Navigators program. A dozen participants — all Black women — recently graduated from the program after five months of training, ready to provide care and support to other women of color in rural communities. Studies show the presence of a doula improves labor and delivery outcomes, reduces stress and results in fewer expensive childbirth interventions, like C-sections.

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  • Mobile mammogram unit increases access to life-saving screenings

    July 19, 2024 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Richland County, Ohio

    OhioHealth’s Mobile Mammography Units provide easy access to mammograms for people who are traditionally underserved by the healthcare system and facing transportation and financial obstacles. In its first year, the unit performed 900 screenings, and the mobile unit touts a first-time screening rate that is three times higher than brick-and-mortar mammography clinics.

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  • Dental therapists, who can fill cavities and check teeth, get the OK in more states

    July 17, 2024 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    Dental therapists provide basic preventative dental care, filling cavities, placing crowns and extracting teeth under a dentist’s supervision. The occupation is growing as it fills gaps in access to dental care, making it easier for people to care for their oral health. Dental therapists are most common in rural, Native areas where access to care is scarce. In rural Alaska alone, more than 40,000 people now have regular access to dental care thanks to dental therapists.

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  • Muslim spiritual care providers improve outcomes at HCMC

    July 17, 2024 |

    Sahan Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    In partnership with Open Path Resource, Hennepin Healthcare started integrating spiritual care into the medical care plan for Muslim patients to address stigma and build trust with medical professionals. The addition of spiritual care has had a significant impact on the hospital’s psychiatry department, reducing readmission rates from 24% in 2019, to 9% in 2023.

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  • Montana Creates Emergency ‘Drive-Thru' Blood Pickup Service for Rural Ambulances

    June 17, 2024 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Montana

    The Montana Interfacility Blood Network allows ambulance crews to pick up blood from area hospitals to transfuse to patients on the way to get the advanced care they need to prevent death or permanent brain injury en route to the emergency room. The Network is primarily for rural patients who face elevated rates of traumatic injury and have less access to healthcare. Since launching in 2022, the Network has helped three patients.

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  • Doctor missionaries and long tale of leprosy in Nigeria

    May 30, 2024 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kwara

    The leprosarium, run by the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), provides free treatment, shelter, and support to those ostracized due to their leprosy diagnosis. Since forming, ECWA has helped 1,000 patients overcome the disease.

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  • Kenyan nurse leads crusade to fight medical negligence after repeated misdiagnoses

    May 30, 2024 |

    365Daily |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    The Nguvu Collective advocates for patients’ rights and the establishment of committees that help educate and protect patients in healthcare settings to prevent misdiagnosis and malpractice. Since 2022, the campaign has reached over 8,000 people, advocated for protections from the local government, published materials to spread patients’ rights education to underserved communities and taught healthcare workers how to be more mindful when providing care.

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  • Connecting for Impact: An African Women Movement Changes HIV Trend Through Mentorship

    May 23, 2024 |

    Solutions Now Africa |

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    Response Location: Zambia, Lusaka

    Mothers to Mothers trains and employs local women living with HIV/AIDs to become community health workers, providing care and services to under-resourced clinics and direct to communities through door-to-door initiatives. Since forming in 2001, Mothers to Mothers has connected more than 15 million people with access to health services and has trained 1,200 women to become community health workers.

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  • Talking the Talk: How one therapy practice is bridging cultural and language barriers

    May 16, 2024 |

    The Columbia Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Latinx Talk Therapy offers bilingual mental health services in English and Spanish from Latinx therapists. These services help bridge the gap in accessing mental health care in Latinx communities. The Center opened in 2020 with a team of four therapists but has since grown to 50, as the services they offer have begun to gain more traction within the community.

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  • Two Health Care Workers Have Saved Countless Lives in Appalachia. Their New Business Goes the Extra Mile.

    May 07, 2024 |

    Slate |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    The Health Wagon provides healthcare to remote, rural communities where accessibility and stigma have historically prevented residents from accessing care. The Wagon operates through multiple stationary clinics and about a dozen mobile sites across six counties. The Health Wagon takes a more individualized approach to healthcare, connecting with patients on a personal level, helping dismantle decades of barriers that prevent rural locals from accessing and understanding the care they need.

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