Month: July 2025

Access and Quality of Mental Health Services in Rural and Urban America

July 15, 2025

Access and Quality of Mental Health Services in Rural and Urban America

Among the key findings in this brief from the University of South Carolina Rural Health Research Center:

  • Digital Divide Exacerbating Access: Both rural and urban Zip Code Tabulation Areas located more than 30 minutes away from the nearest mental health facility have a higher proportion of households without access to essential telecommunication devices.
  • Quality of Rural Mental Health Facilities: Rural facilities generally demonstrate better performance compared to urban facilities in terms of continuity of care measures and lower rates of physical restraint and seclusion usage.

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Geographic and Demographic Correlates of Living in Manufactured Homes: Implications for Health

July 15, 2025

Geographic and Demographic Correlates of Living in Manufactured Homes: Implications for Health

Manufactured homes (formerly known as mobile homes) can provide an affordable housing option, especially in places with few other options. However, manufactured homes are associated with poorer health outcomes and are less well equipped to protect their residents from the effects of natural disasters than more permanent housing structures.

This brief from the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center examines rates of living in manufactured homes by rural and urban location, as well as rates among rural residents by region and socio-demographic characteristics. It also examines differences in crowded housing, housing quality, and housing cost burden by manufactured vs. more permanent housing structures.

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Apply for HRSA’s Faculty Loan Repayment Program, Deadline Extended to July 22

July 15, 2025

Apply for HRSA’s Faculty Loan Repayment Program, Deadline Extended to July 22

The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’s) Bureau of Health Workforce will repay a portion of your health professional student loan in return for serving on the faculty at a health professions school.

Successful applicants will receive up to $40,000 in loan repayment assistance as well as funding to offset the tax burden.

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Obstetric Care Access Declined in Rural and Urban Hospitals Across US States, 2010-2022

July 15, 2025

Obstetric Care Access Declined in Rural and Urban Hospitals Across US States, 2010-2022

With support from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, a team of researchers from the University of Minnesota, Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania found widespread loss of obstetric services across states, especially among rural hospitals, during the 12-year period studied.

By 2022, eight states had more than two-thirds of rural hospitals without obstetric services.

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Rural Hospital Stabilization Program (RHSP) – Apply Now to Join the Next Cohort, Deadline August 20

July 15, 2025

Rural Hospital Stabilization Program (RHSP) – Apply Now to Join the Next Cohort, Deadline August 20

The Rural Hospital Stabilization Program (RHSP) is funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’s) Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) and administered by the National Rural Health Resource Center.

The ultimate goal of this program is to strengthen rural health care delivery nationwide. RHSP provides assistance to help hospitals improve financial stability by enhancing or expanding health care services that meet community needs.

Benefits of Participation

  • Improve financial position and increase operational efficiencies,
  • Enhance stability and sustain access to care,
  • Grow services to increase patient volume,
  • Align service to community needs, bolster revenue and reduce bypass, and
  • Enhance community perception of the hospital.

Hospitals participating in the cohort-style program work to identify clinical areas where expansion or addition of services would help to ensure that care is available locally, and develop those service lines to bolster patient volume, optimize service utilization and improve cash flow.

Hospitals that meet program expectations and are selected for participation may receive financial support for operating and equipment costs for service line development and a Community Engagement Champion.

Apply by August 20

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Whitepaper: How Health Systems are Scaling RPM to Meet Growing Patient Demand

July 11, 2025

Whitepaper: How Health Systems are Scaling RPM to Meet Growing Patient Demand

With an aging population and the growing burden of chronic disease, remote patient monitoring will only become more important in the years to come.

RPM can reduce readmissions, lower costs and improve care continuity – but only when adoption scales.

Catholic Health and others are proving it’s possible, with instances of 90% patient adherence on biometric monitoring. At the University of Chicago Medicine, 6% of postpartum hypertension patients reached control within 6 weeks. MedStar Health reduced hospital readmissions to 60% the national average.

This whitepaper distills strategies from these high-performing systems so clinical nursing and IT leaders can operationalize and scale RPM and achieve similar results.

Inside You’ll Learn:

  • Why most RPM programs fail to scale – and how to course-correct,
  • Tactics to improve care for high-risk postpartum patients – backed by UChicago data, and
  • Referral workflow fixes that double enrollment – as seen at Lee Health.

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Webinar: Enhancing RCM at the Point of Conversation: Insights from Corewell Health, Riverside, and Dayton Children’s, July 29

July 11, 2025

Webinar: Enhancing RCM at the Point of Conversation: Insights from Corewell Health, Riverside, and Dayton Children’s, July 29

Generative AI for clinical documentation has shown significant promise in reducing administrative workloads, alleviating clinician burnout, and enhancing the patient experience. Yet there remains untapped potential in leveraging patient-clinician conversations to automate critical business functions, particularly across revenue cycle management.

By 2030, the U.S. is projected to face a shortage of nearly 100,00o physicians driven in part by the burden of administrative and billing demands in healthcare (Association of American Medical Colleges). Leading health systems like Corewell Health, Riverside, and Dayton Children’s are already streamlining documentation to build more resilient care and revenue operations.

Takeaways:

  • How ambient AI is helping combat workforce shortages by improving margins and reducing clinician burnout.
  • Lessons learned in driving adoption and proving ROI, and
  • The measurable outcomes health systems are seeing, from improved documentation quality to better patient and financial outcomes.

Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, July 29, 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

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Continuing Education for Health Professionals (CEHP): Intensive Behavioral Therapy Certification Intro Series, Starts July 16

July 10, 2025

Continuing Education for Health Professionals (CEHP): Intensive Behavioral Therapy Certification Intro Series, Starts July 16

This series will provide foundational knowledge for Intensive Behavioral Therapy delivery for patients living with obesity. This is an introductory series to be able to participate in the IBT ECHO, where skills will continue to be developed.

Series Schedule:

  • July 16, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Foundations of Obesity Care and IBT
    • Introduction to obesity as a chronic condition and the basics of Intensive Behavioral Therapy (IBT).
    • Session Outcome: Understand obesity as a disease and the need for IBT as a solution.
  • July 30, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Nutrition Essentials and Behavior Strategies for Sustainable Change
    • Strategies and tools to support nutrition and physical activity changes, with a focus on helping clients create an environment that supports long-term success.
    • Session Outcome: Understanding what the traffic light eating and activity plan is and how environment can impact success.
  • August 6, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Sustaining Change Through Planning and Habits
    • Building routines, planning, and self-regulation strategies.
    • Session Outcome: How important healthy routines and social networks are in lifestyle sustainability.
  • August 20, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Managing the Journey: Support, Setbacks, and Maintenance
    • Preparing clients – and coaches – for the long haul.
    • Session Outcome: Feeling prepared for all situations and how to help clients maintain lifestyle changes.

Overall Series Outcomes

The learner will self-report:

  1. Increased knowledge about what IBT is and how it is delivered, and
  2. Increased confidence about delivering IBT to clients.

Target Audience

  • Clinical providers who work with adults living with obesity.
  • Typically, these providers will be behavioral health providers and registered dietitians.

Cost: Free

When: Starts July 16

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Webinar: The Future is Live – How Trailblazing Health Systems are Revolutionizing Primary Care with Agentic AI, July 22

July 10, 2025

Webinar: The Future is Live – How Trailblazing Health Systems are Revolutionizing Primary Care with Agentic AI, July 22

AI agents validated with clinical rigor and embedded in the HER aren’t hypothetical – they’re here. This session explores how health systems are using clinically-validated agentic AI to scale personalized primary care, reduce clinical burden, supercharge point-of-care decision-making and deliver meaningful financial operational ROI.

Join to see for yourself how AI is eliminating the burden for clinicians in real time by:

  • Evaluating overlooked conditions,
  • Identifying missed care opportunities, and
  • Orchestrating treatment across physical, mental, social and health plan factors – and restoring joy back to the practice of medicine.

What You’ll Learn

  • AI agents bolster clinical reasoning and reduce manual burden – all within existing workflows,
  • Integrating whole-person data beyond the HER is critical for delivering true hyper-personalized care, and
  • Organization are breaking care silos with AI-guided coordination between primary and specialist care.

Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, July 22, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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Webinar: When IT Systems go Dark – Monument Health and Aspirus Health Share the Playbook, July 21

July 10, 2025

Webinar: When IT Systems go Dark – Monument Health and Aspirus Health Share the Playbook, July 21

Every minute of unplanned IT downtime puts patients, revenue, and reputation at risk. Join Becker’s Healthcare for a candid look at how leading health systems keep care moving when core systems fail.

CIO Patrick Woodard, MD (Monument Health) teams up with Lisa K. Rowe-Peplinski, DNP, MSN, RN, CPHQ (Vice President, system Nursing Operations, Aspirus Health) and Healthlink Advisors resiliency leads Steve Hendrick and Zahid Rathore to walk you through a proven, operations-first approach that goes far beyond traditional disaster-recovery checklists. You’ll leave with a framework your team can adapt tomorrow.

Key Takeaways

  • Stand up a cross-functional response program spanning clinical, nursing, revenue cycle, and supply-chain workflows,
  • Identify hidden failure points that jeopardize patient safety during extended outages,
  • Run live tabletop simulations to pressure-test people, processes, and manual workarounds in advance, and
  • Build department-level playbooks that restore care delivery and cash flow within hours rather than days.

Cost: Free

When: Monday, July 21, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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