In all non-metropolitan areas, those 65 and older have significantly higher rates of ED visits, with the difference especially pronounced in Metropolitan areas compared to Large Rural and Small Rural areas. @NCRural #ruralhealth

As language diversity grows in rural America, health systems and training programs are taking new steps to reach patients with limited English proficiency. @ruralhealthinfo #ruralhealth

🚨Rural Health Research Alert🚨 "Examining Differences in Rural and Urban Medicare FSS Beneficiaries' Emergency Department Use Before and During Covid" View and subscribe: @RuralEquity #ruralhealth #medicare

Types of elder abuse and reporting laws defined in state statutes do not differ significantly among three categories of state-level rurality. However, definition detail, coverage, and reporting laws vary widely across states. @UMNRHRC #ruralhealth

Between 2010 and 2022, 537 hospitals nationwide either closed entirely or stopped offering obstetrics care in both rural and urban areas, said Katy Backes Kozhimannil. @UMNRHRC #ruralhealth #maternity

Challenges to preventing and addressing elder abuse included themes related to education and awareness, outreach and engagement, limited resources and services, reporting issues, isolation, stigma, and systemic barriers. @UMNRHRC #ruralhealth

🚨Rural Health Research Alert🚨 "A Rural-Urban Analysis of Buprenorphine Therapy During and After Pregnancy Among the Commercially Insured" View and subscribe: @RuralEquity #ruralhealth #opioids

🚨Rural Health Research Alert🚨 "Evaluating Medicare Advantage Benchmark Setting Methodology on Rural Counties" View and subscribe: @RUPRIHealth #ruralhealth #MedicareAdvantage

Rural hospital administrators from seven states identified uninsurance and underinsurance, existing community sociodemographics, and emergency room usage as key factors contributing to medical debt. @UMNRHRC #ruralhealth

“Social isolation and loneliness have profound impacts on health, on mortality risks, on all of the ways that our lives play out within health, within that sphere but in so many other ways too,” Henning-Smith said. @UMNRHRC #ruralhealth

🚨Rural Health Research Alert🚨 "Resources for Measuring Rurality in Research on Maternity Care" View and subscribe: @UMNRHRC #ruralhealth #maternalhealth

Don't miss our January 14th webinar, "An Updated Model of Rural Hospital Financial Distress." Register: @NCRural #ruralhealth #hospitalfinance

This recently updated topic guide shares information and resources on Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and the Health Center Program, including details and resources on how to become an FQHC. @ruralhealthinfo #ruralhealth #FQHC

🚨Rural Health Research Alert🚨 "Rural-Urban Differences in PACE Organization and Enrollee Characteristics" View and subscribe: @UMNRHRC #ruralhealth #aging

Rural counties have a higher proportion of people with medical debt in collections than urban counties (15.7% vs 14.8%), and this difference is associated with lower average household incomes in rural counties in general. @UMNRHRC #ruralhealth

🚨Rural Health Research Alert🚨 "Medicare Advantage Enrollment Update 2024" View and subscribe: @RUPRIhealth #ruralhealth #medicareadvantage

The GRACE Youth and Family Center for Everyone brings free programming to children and teenagers in a county with one of the highest drug overdose rates in the state. @ruralhealthinfo #ruralhealth

The number of behavioral health clinicians per 100,000 population in rural counties ranged from 27% (psychiatrists) to 70% (psychiatric nurse practitioners) of urban areas. @wwamirhrc #ruralhealth

The counties with an REH had the highest median rates of poverty (16.3%), uninsured (19.4%), and people in poor or fair health (25.8%). @NCRural #ruralhealth #REH

“Just because the obstetrics units close, doesn’t mean those communities stop having babies,” said @katybkoz. “It just means they have to go farther and face more challenges in having a successful delivery.” @UMNRHRC @dailyyonder #ruralhealth