Chronic disease is a major concern in rural America, often coming on Community Health Needs Assessments as a key priority area with diabetes in particular.
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Episode 57: The Education Ladder: From Patient Care Tech to Nurse Practitioner
Recruiting has never been a hotter topic in healthcare than it is today. Hospitals across the country are plagued with staffing shortages. In addition to recruiting new staff, advancing the… Read more »
... Read MoreMinisode: What Now? Navigating the Post-Pandemic Era
This week, JJ and Rachel sit down to talk about how the rural healthcare industry will look as we start to move past the pandemic.
... Read MoreEpisode 56: Rural Hospitals Advocating for One Another
Rural hospital leaders are more than just administrators keeping their own hospitals and healthcare services running—many of them are using their voices to be rural health advocates, speaking out on issues that affect all of us in rural healthcare.
... Read MoreEpisode 55: The Fight for EMRs & Tech Infrastructure
To provide the best possible patient care in today’s environment, hospitals and healthcare providers must have a strong IT infrastructure with systems to manage and support every part of patient care, which often comes at a high cost.
... Read MoreMinisode: Travel Nursing Agencies: Create Scarcity & Control Supply
This week, JJ and Rachel discuss the ever rising costs that travel nursing agencies are charging to fill staffing shortages in hospitals and the domino-effect that has on health care.
... Read MoreEpisode 54: Rural Health Policy & Advocacy Part 2
Legislations that paint with a broad brush often leaves rural hospitals unsupported at best and disadvantaged at worst.
... Read MoreEpisode 53: Rural Health Policy & Advocacy
This week we welcome a passionate advocate for rural health who continually brings awareness to the healthcare challenges, successes and opportunities facing rural America.
... Read MoreEpisode 52: Healthcare Industry News & Trends
There is so much in healthcare that we as leaders need to understand and keep track of to do our jobs effectively. Whether it’s trends in technology, best practices, proposed legislation or anything else, we need to know what’s going on in our industry.
... Read MoreEpisode 51: Nursing Recruitment, Retention and Advancement
The COVID-19 pandemic just accelerated a trend we were already seeing before the pandemic—we knew nursing shortages were coming and then the pandemic brought that on much earlier than anticipated.
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