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Choose a page number: 1 Apartment Living RSS FeedsHealthcare.gov Helps Same - Sex Couples Find Coverage by Adding New Details - Americans are now able to use HealthCare.gov to search specifically for insurance plans that include coverage for domestic partners, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today....Feed Source: www.raconline.org HUD Announces More Than $400 Million in Indian Housing Block Grants - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced $404 million in Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) allocations to nearly 300 tribes in 27 states.... New Study: Small Businesses Could Buy Health Insurance for Nearly 10 Million Workers Through the Affordable Care Act's Small Business Health Insurance Exchanges - Commonwealth Fund article reports that the Affordable Care Acts state health insurance exchanges for small businesses are estimated to cover nearly 10 million employees, in addition to the 15.3 million individuals who will gain coverage through the individual exchanges when the law is fully implemented, according to an article in the February issue of Health Affairs.... CMS Gives Consumers Access to More Details About Infection Rates at Americas Hospitals - Central line-associated bloodstream infections are among the most serious of all healthcare-associated infections, resulting in thousands of deaths each year and nearly $700 million in added costs to the U.S. healthcare system. Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that Hospital Compare will now include data about how often these preventable infections occur in hospital intensive care units across the country.... Rural Unemployment Ticks Up - Daily Yonder article reports that for the first time since March, unemployment in rural America moved ahead of urban counties in December 2011, according to data just released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.... New Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds Profound Income Divide in Health Insurance and Access to Health Care; Health Reform Could Nearly Eliminate Gaps When Fully Implemented in 2014 - Adults in low - and moderate - income families are more likely to be uninsured, to lack a regular source of health care, and to struggle to get the health care they need compared to those in higher-income families, according to a new Commonwealth Fund survey.... CDC Releases Its First iPad "App" - In an effort to enable fast and efficient mobile delivery of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC's) critical health information, they have released their first iPad "App" . The CDC App is free for anyone to download.... With Uncle Sam's Help, Americans Return to the Farm - MSNBC article tells how fueled by an economic downturn that has curtailed the upward mobility of many corporate jobs, general dissatisfaction with suburban stresses and growing discontent with what they see as the ills of industrialized agriculture, thousands of families across the United States have left suburban cul de sacs and headed to the countryside - forging a new demographic of family farmer.... Agriculture Deputy Secretary Merrigan Announces Funding to Create Jobs and Strengthen the Economic Foundation of Rural America - Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan today announced that USDA has selected 298 recipients in 44 states and Puerto Rico to receive business development assistance through the Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG) program.... Questions Emerge About Whether War Savings Can Pay for 'Doc Fix' - Kaiser Health News brings together a variety of articles discussing how hospitals, physicians and some members of Congress want to use war savings as a way to get rid of Medicare's sustainable growth rate formula, but congressional rules could complicate things.... Rural Jobs Four Years After Recession - Most of rural America has not recovered from the recession that began four years ago, a Daily Yonder analysis of federal jobs figures has found.... Family Physicians Lead in Specialties in Providing Rural Health Care - AAFP News Now article reports that family physicians provide more health care to rural areas than other primary care or subspecialty physicians, according to data released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.... Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority - In this notice the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention amends their Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority for a variety of agencies including the Division of Adolescent and School Health, the Division of Adult and Community Health, the Division of Oral Health, and many others.... Sen. Udall Drafting Bill to Kill Telemedicine Barriers - Government Health IT article reports that Sen. Tom Udall (D-Utah) anticipates introducing a bill this spring to make it easier for physicians to practice telemedicine in many states instead of applying for a separate license for each state.... The Worth of the Rural 'Creative Economy' - Daily Yonder article tells how from the Blues Trail through the Delta to the Walter Anderson Museum on the Gulf Coast, rural Mississippi's economy is buoyed by what they call the "creative economy."... Data Illustrate Geographic Dispersal of Family Physicians, Other Primary Care Professionals - AAFP News Now article reports that family physicians are the most likely of any physician specialty or subspecialty to practice in rural areas and the most likely to be geographically distributed in the same proportion as the U.S. population, according to a one-page fact sheet published by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).... How One Hospital Entices Doctors to Work In Rural America - NPR Health Blog article tells how the Ashland Health Clinic, a tiny hospital in southwest Kansas, is trying a reverse-recruitment model, by offering potential candidates eight weeks off to do missionary work overseas.... Rural Relevant Quality Measures for CAHs - NRHA Rural Health Voices blog reports that the FLEX Monitoring Team just released a Brief on rural relevant quality measures for Critical Access Hospitals (CAH). The purpose of the brief is to provide a set of rural relevant quality measure for policy makers and the rural health provider community.... Aging America Creates Demand for Health - Care Workers - Reuters article reports that the graying of America and a booming Hispanic population is driving major changes in the structure of the U.S. workforce and the types of jobs that will be available over the next decade, according to a new government report.... House Bill Would Gouge Rural Transit - Daily Yonder article discusses how rural transportation leaders are speaking out against a proposal before Congress that would cut funding for needed public transit programs.... Rural Health: Residency Doctor Chooses to Return to Rural Roots - Tri-State Neighbor, (SD) article profiles students in the almost 40-year-old Sioux Falls Family Medicine Residency program that has helped produce about 300 doctors since 1973.... Heat from Farmers Results in Rethinking of Youth Labor Limits - Washington Times, (DC) article reports that bowing to an angry backlash from agriculture groups and family farmers across the country, the Obama administration Wednesday said it would scale back proposed new rules that would have sharply limited the amount of work young people can do on farms.... Obama Administration Announces Pilot Program to Help Rural Borrowers Refinance Mortgages, Get Lower Interest Rates - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is launching a pilot program to help rural borrowers refinance their mortgages to reduce their monthly payments.... Health Reform Law Saves $2.1 Billion for 3.6 Million Americans with Medicare - Nearly 3.6 million people with Medicare saved $2.1 billion on their prescription drugs in 2011 due to the Affordable Care Act according to data issued today by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).... Redirecting Rural Health Research: A Think Tank Summit - Idaho State University announces that abstracts are being accepted until February 28, 2012, for an interprofessional rural health research conference and Think Tank that will be held Aug 8-10, 2012, in Idaho Falls, Idaho.... Bill Would Improve Medicare Payment for Small, Rural Hospitals - AHA News Now article reports that Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Mike Thompson (D-CA) today introduced the Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act, a bill that would improve Medicare payment for rural hospitals that serve a disproportionate share of low-income patients, and adjust the low-volume adjustment for small prospective payment system hospitals that do not qualify as critical access hospitals.... A Computer Beats a Pen for Getting Prescriptions Right - NPR article discusses how one way to reduce drug errors inside hospitals is to have doctors enter the prescriptions on a computer instead of with pen and paper. After the switch, hospitals can see error rates drop by a whopping 60 percent.... Medicare Advantage Premiums Down 7 Percent on Average, Enrollment Up 10 Percent - Medicare Advantage premiums have fallen by 7 percent on average and enrollment has risen by about 10 percent since this time last year, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today.... Talk of the Town at Policy Institute - As 450 of Americas most passionate advocates are fighting for rural health on Capitol Hill, the NRHA Rural Health Voices blog thought they would recap some of the memorable (and often unscripted) quotes from the National Rural Health Associations 23rd annual Rural Health Policy Institute so far.... One-Room School Also One-Student School - New York Times article tells how at a time when many schools are concerned about overcrowded classrooms, the Sunset school in a Montana ranching community has a different problem keeping its lone student at her desk so it can remain open.... Copyright © 2012, My Ebay Secrets Revealed. All Rights Reserved. |
