Pennsylvania Announces Partial Implementation of Interstate Nurse Licensure Compact
The Pennsylvania Department of State is pleased to announce that Pennsylvania will take a big step by partially implementing the interstate Nurse Lice…
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Crest and Oral-B Launch Communications Campaign
Crest and Oral-B have launched their latest #ClosingAmericasSmileGap campaign focusing on oral care supplies for back-to-school for students. For eve…
Funding Opportunity! Pennsylvania Oral Health Plan Mini-Grants
PCOH is requesting proposals for the 2023-2024 Oral Health Plan Mini-Grant Program. The purpose of this program is to facilitate the implementation o…
CMS Requests Applications for New Primary Care Model
This week, the Innovation Center at the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a Request for Applications detailing policies and requirement…
Take A Look at the Latest Suicide Data and the Changes Over the Last Decade
The Kaiser Family Foundation examines newly released provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showing a record high of…
Here You Can Find An Analysis of Newly-Released Federal Data on Hospital Ownership
The Office for Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services analyzed data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The …
A Heat-Related EMS Activation Surveillance Dashboard Has Been Released
An interactive map shows county-level Emergency Medical Services (EMS) activations related to heat illness. Selecting the Disparity Explorer tab …
In a Maternity Desert, a New Kind of Home Visitation Program Brings Care to At-Risk Mothers
The latest feature article in the Rural Health Information Hub’s Rural Monitor features Project Swaddle, a community paramedic program that provide…
Here You Can Read the Rural/urban Differences in Rates of Screening Pregnant/Postpartum People for Intimate Partner Violence
More than 200,000 self-reported experiences of perinatal intimate partner violence (IPV) were analyzed. FORHP-funded researchers conclude IPV is mor…
A Consensus Panel Approach to Estimating the Start-Up and Annual Service Costs for Rural Ambulance Agencies
This brief from the Maine Rural Health Research Center serves to fill the information void on the costs of running ambulance services for three popula…
