Focus on Rural Health features stories about rural health leaders and people working in rural North Dakota healthcare organizations.
Middle school and high school students explore becoming healthcare professionals through participation in the North Dakota HOSA group.
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The Center for Rural Health makes recommendations based on a study of ways to improve North Dakotans' oral health.
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The National Resource Center on Native American Aging celebrates its 20th Anniversary of providing a way to identify specific needs within Native American communities throughout the United States.
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The state's quality network seeks to strengthen collaboration and leadership among healthcare organizations and streamline efforts around quality and performance improvement for the 36 CAHs.
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At home and at work, Ken and Lucille Peterson nurtured generations of doctors. Peterson gives his insight on how to keep medical students succeeding through the most challenging times of school.
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Evaluating a lifesaving device leads to a cooperative
effort to review statewide cardiac care. The Leona M. and
Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust provided mechanical CPR
devices to ambulances in North Dakota to improve outcomes.
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Center for Rural Health staff members have driven enough
miles to nearly travel around the earth at the equator –
all without leaving North Dakota. They are conducting
Community Health Needs Assessments to help focus rural
health efforts on identified needs.
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Dr. Jacque Gray shares her work on suicide prevention at a
symposium at the University of Otago in Wellington, New
Zealand. She also shared the Seven Generations Center of
Excellence's approach to addressing mental health workforce
needs in Indigenous populations.
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Mountrail County Health Center in Stanley, North Dakota has experienced increased patient volumes due to oil development in their service area. Their providers and staff are facing the struggles head on, and becoming better because of it.
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Brain injuries don't just happen to football players. People are dealing with the oftentimes debilitating aftermath of brain injuries here in North Dakota, from concussions to severe traumatic brain injuries.
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